Vancouver indie rock band Said The Whale spent over 80 hours putting together the music video for their song "UnAmerican." Impressively, zero digital effects were used to stop-motion animate the 2,250 different photos. The band painstakingly did that all by hand. Wow!
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5:38 am Fri
Nov 9, 2018
No digital effects were used to animate this indie band's stop-motion music video
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