프레드 머큐리

Queen 의 프레드 머큐리 (Fred Mercury, Freddie Mercury)

구글에서 프레드 머큐리 65세 생일을 기념하여 만든 2011년 9월 5일에 올린 구글 두들 로고.
구글 로고 변형 중 몇 안되는 우수작. 그의 1979년 노래 don't stop me now 를 배경음악으로 그에 대한 애정이 듬뿍 배어나는 작품이다. 시간에 쫓긴 탓인지 후반부 일부를 닌텐도 풍으로 한 것은 아쉽지만.... 롤링 스톤지 온라인판 (queen, by Andy Greene and Matthew Perpetua)에 따르면 제작 총지휘를 당시 24살인 로드 아일랜드 예술대학의 대학원생 Jennifer Hom이 했다는 것도 대단.

그래픽 디자이너/일러스트레이터인 Jennifer Hom의 블로그를 가보니 작품에서 살짝 동양(일본?) 만화 캐릭터 풍이 느껴지는 작품들이 있어 보니 롱아일랜드에서 자란 중국계 미국인이다. 그렇다면 닌텐도는 그녀의 인터뷰대로 의도적일지도 ㅜㅜ (2012.6.24 추가)

http://jenniferhom.com/jennifer-hom



By

Andy Greene and Matthew Perpetua

September 6, 2011 3:55 PM

Google is celebrating what would have been the 65th birthday of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury with a "Google Doodle" animation that depicts the singer acting out the lyrics of the band's 1979 single "Don't Stop Me Now." Mercury's birthday was actually yesterday, but the company decided to hold off the animation in the United States until today so that people wouldn't miss it because of Labor Day. The clip is only a minute and a half long, but it's jam-packed with references to other Queen classics and guaranteed to make you miss the larger-than-life and one-of-a-kind rocker.

The doodle was designed by a team lead by Jennifer Hom, a 24-year-old graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. "We knew that we couldn't have a regular illustration to celebrate his birthday," she tells Rolling Stone. "We wanted to do something really extraordinary for him because his visual style is so unique. We couldn't justify one of his costumes or one of his music videos, so we wanted to chronicle his career through all the different looks that he sported in his lifetime."

Hom felt that Queen's 1979 hit "Don't Stop Me Now" was the perfect song to accompany the animation. "It has a locomotive rhythm to it," she says. "And it's just so energetic and lively and happy. Also, from an artistic standpoint it has great lyrical imagery. Some of the lines from the second verse contain a tiger, Lady Godiva and a race car. That's a pretty good jumping off point to start storyboarding a music video."

Some of the animation in the video is reminiscent of a 1980s Nintendo game. "I realized that the time Queen was performing was also the time of video games," says Hom. "There was Super Nintendo and all these new platforms and they all had a very distinct look and they were all very adventurous. The scenes in the video that we wanted to capture were equally adventurous, so we thought it would make sense to use that style of animation."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/queen-googles-freddie-mercury-tribute-20110906#ixzz1yf83gkRY

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