FYI.

This story is over 5 years old.

Music

Chicago Becomes Toon Town In The Cool Kids' Video For "Rush Hour Traffic"

Animation and live action combine to psychedelic effect.

Ever since watching Who Framed Roger Rabbit? as a kid at the cinema, the combination of live action and animation has alway had a place in my heart. A world where toons and humans can live as one, splatting each other in the face with Acme custard pies, sounds like a great place to live. Or at least visit.

While that dream may have to wait, the combo of live action and animation lives on in the form of The Cool Kids’ “Rush Hour Traffic” music video, following a track about another kind of nostalgia altogether—found in the driver’s seat of your granddaddy’s Cutlass.

The world this video depicts might not exactly be Toon Town, more like a cartoon-augmented Chicago, but it’s a great use of 2D and 3D animation laid over video footage, with explosions of color and cartoon forms dancing around, plus some video game graphics thrown in for good measure.

The video rounds out at a Cool Kids live performance in Chicago.

@stewart23rd