Sunday, March 4, 2012

Love Is Making It's Way Back Home

Via The Atlantic:



The new music video for Josh Ritter's "Love Is Making Its Way Back Home" is a gorgeous, handmade collage painstakingly assembled from thousands of paper silhouettes and brought to life through stop-motion animation. A minimalist black and white universe blossoms into a psychedelic experience, saturated with the classic Crayola colors of kindergarten construction paper. With no special effects or digital enhancement, the video achieves an "oh wow!" effect with its amazing, labor-intensive intricacy.

The video was produced by Prominent Figures, a collaboration between Erez Horovitz, the director, and Sam Cohen, an animator. Horovitz describes the making of the video in an interview below, and some behind-the-scenes photos reveal the process of layering the silhouettes (as well as crew members taking naps on the floor during the grueling shoot). "Love Is Making Its Way Back Home" and Ritter's new album, Bringing in the Darlings, are available on iTunes
Stop-motion animation would drive me insane.  I know it is a very short drive, but still, wow.

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