For today’s daily video Sean Pecknold is back.
We have previously met him with two other videos, Mykonos (of Fleet Foxes) and While You Wait For The Others (Grizzly Bear).
 
Today we offer “The Shrine”, eight minutes that perfectly interpret the song of the Fleet Foxes.
Care and attention to details, choice of colors and dynamics keep their eyes glued to the screen with this special stop-motion. The video features a wandering antelope, witnessing to his kind of sacrilege and his fairies that comes next.
 
Sean gives dragonframe.com an interview about the making of equally epic, we report it.
 
“We started talking about the concept in January. I wrote the story in February, Stacey illustrated some of the characters in March. In April we moved to a small studio in Portland, Oregon and got to work creating the puppets, the animation table, and building the sets. Animation started in May and continued until early October. Spent a couple weeks finishing with After Effects, color, etc. some pickup shots, then delivered end of October. Wow that really did take a long time.
It was a small crew-I directed, lit, animated, and edited. Britta Johnson helped construct puppets, paint sets and animated. Illustrated Stacey Rozich the characters, and Natalie Jenkins helped to construct the puppets as well as painted many of the set pieces.
 
We used the Entire Dragonframe 6 months of animating, night and day. It did not even blink an eye. We used the drawing tools to mark out new animations, and the line-up layer was invaluable as always, Allowing us to bring the animatic and mark out our timings. It was actually my first production using a Canon camera with Dragonframe and I was kind of blown away at how much better it is, the live preview image is big and clear, and it never overheats.
 
It was a challenging production because of the length of the song, and the amount of characters we have in the video, and just staying focused on the big picture, while spending so much time on the little details. We invested wisely in a baking rack that we used to store all the bits and pieces, characters, and sets.
 
It was the longest project I’ve ever worked on in the animation world. It was an amazing experience, and at the cutting easier because of Dragonframe. Thanks guys.”
 
Thanks to you, Sean!