Animation Spotlight: Coldplay-Strawberry Swing Video “Larger than Life”

Coldplay unveiled their new video for their next Viva La Vida single “Strawberry Swing” via Babelgum this morning. You might be thinking, “Viva came out like a year ago, what took the video so long?” Take one look at the video and you’ll understand why, as “Strawberry Swing” features both stop-motion animation and Chris Martin playing out a superhero fantasy. Stop-motion animation seems daunting enough to do on its own, add the fact that this was done entirely with chalk and it’s a miracle that the video came out a year after the album instead of five years. It’s one of those videos you watch at least five times just to marvel at how they made it at all, . . .

view full video on Babelgum

view full article on RollingStone.com

 

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