Stop-motion music video by Rafael Bonilla for Glass Animals' single Exxus
Dezeen Music Project: surreal animated creatures made out of plasticine inhabit this music video by Rafael Bonilla for upcoming British band Glass Animals.
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Bonilla sculpted the basic shapes of the creatures' bodies using wire and epoxy, onto which he applied layers of plasticine to create their final forms.
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"The band wanted to make sure that the whole video was stop-motion," he told Dezeen. "I shot the animation one frame at a time. There's something like 6,500 individual photographs that make up the final product."
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The video features a range of weird and wonderful shape-shifting creatures, including a fox that transforms into a mushroom, which Bonilla envisioned as a kind of surreal documentary.
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"I had this story in my head about a dark, undiscovered forest somewhere that has all kinds of strange animals that inhabit it," he said. "I wanted to structure it like a nature documentary, where you catch glimpses of the different animals to get a sense of the environment as a whole."
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Glass Animals are a quartet from Oxfordshire, England, signed to a new record label called Wolf Tone set up by producer Paul Epworth, who has worked with a diverse range of artists including Adele, Bloc Party and Azealia Banks.
They released their debut AA-side single Black Mambo / Exxus in 2013 and are set to release an EP in 2014.
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