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Our latest Showcase pick has been called a celebration of animators from around the world. This music video for Coldplay\u2019s Feels Like I\u2019m Falling in Love was directed by Raman Djafari<\/a> and caught our attention for its stop motion contribution by animator, Isabel Garrett<\/a>, as it opened up a world of tactile fancy in the middle of the piece.<\/p>\n \u201cRaman\u2019s concept for the whole video was story of two souls connected through time and space,\u201d Garrett told us, \u201cit\u2019s a really beautiful concept. I love Raman\u2019s work and really fell in love with the idea when we chatted about it.<\/p>\n The animator was especially excited about turning his designs into stop motion, a process that ultimately led her to the her choice of materials. \u201cNeedle felting is such a great technique, especially with a short turnaround\u2014it\u2019s a great way of getting a lovely tactile finish and allows for lots of tiny details.<\/p>\n \u201cLuckily we were able to work with Cat Johnston and Rachael Olga Lloyd, who are such amazingly talented makers and directors in their own right. Cat made the lovely puppets, and together Cat and Rachael made\u00a0such a beautiful set in a really short space of time.\u201d<\/p>\n Once the time-intensive process of felting and fashioning the puppets was done, it was time to build their colorful realm and get them to them move through it. \u201cAn obvious challenge was making the butterfly creature fly through the world,\u201d Garrett said. \u201cLuckily, we had the help of the brilliant Robin Jackson who helped us rig the characters to fly through the set. We also made lots of flowers at different scales, to make the scene feel big and overgrown. Everything you see in the film was made by hand, so it was quite time consuming!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n