LAMAR+NIK’s Stop Motion Paper Trail for The Shins

Directing duo Lamar+Nik have created a stop motion fiesta for the newest single from The Shins’ 2017 album Heartworms. The music video takes the animated band members and drops them into the real world, with a trippy twist, as the band leaves a trail of movement and motion.

The animated element was filmed on a white backdrop, edited, then printed out. It was a painstaking process; “Half A Million” was created with 5,566 stickers, hand cut from the 4,868 frames and animated by sticking them down on top of each other at each of the over 40 locations.