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A music video for Fleet Foxes.

Director: Sean Pecknold
Animators: Christopher Rodgers, Britta Johnson, Sean Pecknold, Paul Maupoux
Miniature sets: Sean Pecknold, Thomas Troisch, Britta Johnson
Costume Design: Joy Andrews
Puppets: Christopher Rodgers, Britta Johnson, Sean Pecknold, Mollie Fabric
Consultants: Noel Paul, Greg Pecknold
Assistants: Brendan Nunn, Lanna Apisukh
Photography: Sean Pecknold
Editorial: Sean Pecknold
Producer: Grandchildren
Label: Sup Pop Records & Bella Union

Fleet Foxes are:
Robin Pecknold (my wonderful brother)
Skye Skjelset
Casey Wescott
Christian Wargo
Josh Tillman

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  • peter bill plus 3 years ago
    sweet-
    me i gotz to go getz some fleetz foxes...
    love the stop motion timelapse!!!
    i am working on the storyboards for a piece likewise- set in post end LA, based on an, well i will show you when it is done...

    what did you shoot/edit this on? are you in seattle?

    peterbill
  • meyoko 2 years ago
    just amazing wow
  • Elliot Van Orman Productions plus 3 days ago
    Love this! :)
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  • Sean Pecknold plus 3 years ago
    thanks for checking it out!

    we shot with a Nikon D200 and cut with Final Cut Pro. Most shots are straight from the camera, we ran out of time to do any fancy color correction and all that. Oh well...

    i am in Seattle indeed.
  • mortalfaerie 3 years ago
    This definitely looks to be a labor of love. It is outstanding. I am so totally hooked on this vid. I can't stop watching but I get more and more out of it with each viewing. I love this! Best to all of you on your future endeavors.
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  • Phil Regan 3 years ago
    Lovely video and animotion. And I fell in love with this song when I heard the album. Getting a lot of heavy rotation in my house, car and office right now.
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  • Milk Products pro 3 years ago
    this is a wonderful piece of work.
    love the sky.
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  • Andrenalin 3 years ago
    Brilliant. Really really beautifull combination of music, IDEA, and the love to 'give life to puppets'
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  • Ted Roden 3 years ago
    This is so great. I'm glad you uploaded the images too.
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  • Adrian B 3 years ago
    Oh man, did I love this! Superb work.

    Will Vinton influence?
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  • Lesley Barnes 3 years ago
    lovely! and such an ace track as well....
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  • Gala 3 years ago
    really amazing! congrats! :3
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  • thatgo plus 3 years ago
    this is really good, sean. :)
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  • Konx-om-Pax 3 years ago
    great!
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  • birds-on-fire films 3 years ago
    i must be pretty dense...it took me a second or third viewing to really pick up on what was going on. In the third viewing, I noticed the bit with the bird returning the little creature it had snagged. Very sweet video. Bitter sweet, I suppose. Great work.
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  • Sean Pecknold plus 3 years ago
    thanks for the comments guys!! i'm happy you've been able to see it!
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  • Justin Kane plus 3 years ago
    i <3 fleet foxes...great vid...double wammy.
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  • →Zac Boyet← 3 years ago
    I love it! Great job!
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  • Benjamin Winchell plus 3 years ago
    Great claymation! What made your work distinct from many others was your manipulation and position of light. Excellent and genius work!
  • Sean Pecknold plus 3 years ago
    thanks!
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  • Daniel Hayek pro 3 years ago
    This is extremely wonderful. Thank you for sharing such a well executed, sensitive, sublime video.
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  • Mike Dorsey plus 3 years ago
    Awesome! I love this album and this is my fav song! Cool seeing the vid for it!

    Highly recommend the record - go out and get it now.
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  • Graeme Phillips 3 years ago
    LOVE this song very much, and now i love the video very much. Great stuff
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  • Albornoz 3 years ago
    I´m really speechless!
    Congrats!
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  • onur tukel 3 years ago
    I love it that they turn old.
    nice touch.
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  • j 3 years ago
    beautiful...

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    beautiful...
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  • Wolfgang Gaebler aka gogo6969 plus 3 years ago
    Great music - great vid!
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  • Jared Foster plus 3 years ago
    how long did this take you to create? Great song and very interesting.
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  • Sean Pecknold plus 3 years ago
    Thanks guys! It took about 2 months all told. We spent 6 weeks on building things and 2 weeks to shoot and 1 day to edit.
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  • Phoric plus 3 years ago
    This song has been stuck in my head for a week. Great job on the video.
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  • By Osmosis TV 3 years ago
    Fantastic!
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  • Jesse Inman 3 years ago
    beautiful song, beautiful video
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  • MENTHOL 3 years ago
    this must have taken at least a hundred hours. way more artistically intensive than the actual song. the nighttime lighting reminds me of street of crocodiles by the brothers quay
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  • Travis Bickle 3 years ago
    awesome!
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  • Jim Janek 3 years ago
    i love this song, and the video turned out great. just imagine all the extra work required if you went with a longer song from the album.
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  • Sean Kiely plus 3 years ago
    that's awesome, great band
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  • kahve 3 years ago
    wooow. thats really good.
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  • Jann Vivoni plus 3 years ago
    Very cool idea, very professional, looks great.
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  • Martijn Doornenbal plus 3 years ago
    Beautiful puppets and mood. The clothing is really cool too...
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  • Andreas 3 years ago
    Reminds me of Shins. Like it
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  • All Aces Media plus 3 years ago
    Blown away. Great visuals to a great song.
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  • Jeferson Richetti 3 years ago
    holy s***
    this is really awesome..
    srly
    it's really really great
    the animation, the photography, the "puppets"
    everything
    congratz
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  • Shelley Noble 3 years ago
    Beautiful work! 2 months. I started a 6 minute stop motion 15 years ago. Still slogging away on it!

    The timelapse segments in this are especially effective. Well done.
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  • Sam Whitehall 3 years ago
    This was truly awesome... I just love it; the visuals are amazing and shows true imagination. I wish I had a sky-lever!
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  • pekka plus 3 years ago
    that is such a load of distilled, pure beauty, this video and this song. Grown men cry!
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  • daniel gillespie 3 years ago
    Fucking Awesome!
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  • Mitsch Kaufmann 3 years ago
    thank you for that clip!
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  • Jeremiah Clark 3 years ago
    Very neat piece. The idea of it is very beautiful. I especially liked to see the light move across the characters' faces. Nice animation!
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  • Bobby 3 years ago
    love this song... great video too!!
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  • brandon hess 3 years ago
    Wow, what an incredible video. Fit the mood perfectly. Great work. Very moving.
  • Sean Pecknold plus 3 years ago
    thanks!!
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  • Lance Kuhns 3 years ago
    Very awesome. i love the lighting in the miniatures. very nice..
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  • Max Lampin 3 years ago
    I saw it on TV last night and now I love the song and the video!

    Wonderful and (very sad?) video
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  • joana vieira da costa 3 years ago
    Lovely! The idea of Time was beautifuly portrayed, leaving us with a sad, yet peaceful feeling... I guess you can never run away from time, for it will always catch up yo you...
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  • Jeff Stine 3 years ago
    That is really awesome, just goes perfectly with the music. Had never heard of the Fleet Foxes until now, just bought the album :-)
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  • Lizondo 3 years ago
    Simplemente Genial!
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  • Wyatt Gordon 3 years ago
    Really Amazing Stuff!
    I love the song.
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  • Reid Dennis 3 years ago
    Accolades!
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  • Barry Moseley plus 3 years ago
    Nice work! Congratulations!
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  • Gudjon VIDEO pro 3 years ago
    Brilliant!
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  • Matteo Lecchi 3 years ago
    Wonderful!
  • Sean Pecknold plus 3 years ago
    thank you!!
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  • Matt Hughes 3 years ago
    What an amazing video. How did you get the streaking effect of the stars as they spin? You must have added them in afterwards, am I right?
  • Sean Pecknold plus 3 years ago
    Thanks so much! Well everything is in camera, there were no post effects added. The star streaking effect was done using long exposures and pulling the disc with longer and longer increments each time. Thanks for watching it!
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  • Natalie Asplund 3 years ago
    WOW!!! amazing claymation! it's very smooth an just all around beautiful! I especially love the sky turning as he turns the wheel!!!
    great job!!
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  • Lara Asher 3 years ago
    Beautiful! It goes so well with the song. I especially love the turning of the sky and the general light quality of this piece. Really great work.
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  • nano test 3 years ago
    ooooowww Love It!!!

    that is some serious artistry!
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  • Obviam Est 3 years ago
    really touching... great work!
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  • Katie V 3 years ago
    I just LOVE this video. It is a beautiful song and the video is a prefect complement to the melody and lyrics. Lovely.
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  • Gregory Rucker 2 years ago
    This was sent to me by a friend....Thank you friend..
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  • Ladd Smith 2 years ago
    once again, brilliant.
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  • Charlie Criscola 2 years ago
    omg this video is just simply stunning. a superb piece of art. to say "breathe taking" is just simply not enough.
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  • rosie potter 2 years ago
    simply beautiful. completely in tune with the spirit of the song. wonderful!
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  • THEomegaBOY 2 years ago
    I was afraid the video would ruin the song
    It made it even better
    good stuff
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  • neicebdog 2 years ago
    I love this! make me a music vid? myspace.com/septemberforever
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  • Greek islands lover 2 years ago
    Nice song, nice video, nice gift to us.
    Thank you.
    apsenti.gr
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  • Granted Productions plus 2 years ago
    what program are you using to get the frame by frame!?
  • Sean Pecknold plus 2 years ago
    Hey, we used iStopmotion for this one. Thanks for checking it out!
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  • ibrahim uzun 2 years ago
    Amazing music and flavor!
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  • May Jay 2 years ago
    you've probably heard it a hundred times before but dude this is awesome. i just keep watching it over and over. the lighting is just sooooo amazing, im currently studying stopmotion at uni and this is a real inspiration. the song is brilliant too.
  • Sean Pecknold plus 2 years ago
    Thank you May! Good luck with your studies,
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  • Bliss7 2 years ago
    Kudos on a job well done.. I love Fleet Foxes!
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  • Myles Lewando 2 years ago
    What an incredible set! Your recreation of nature with real objects and clay is excellent. I am in awe of the design here.
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  • Christian Bermejo 2 years ago
    wow... nice ighting, nice modeling, nice animation, awsome concept and rythm! congrats!!!
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  • Ann Nilsson 2 years ago
    Indeed a very touching video and definitely one to view over and over. As many previous comments witness it is very professional. Personally I find it very open, allowing different and even contrasting emotions to pop up.
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  • Eduardo Fernandes 2 years ago
    Hey. I love this video. we have a educational tv here in Brazil and we want to show your video to the people. Everybody has to see it! It's awesome.

    Congratulations.
  • Sean Pecknold plus 2 years ago
    Okay cool let me know where to send it! Thanks!
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  • Travis Johansen 2 years ago
    wow great work! Good timing and detail-
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  • Becca 2 years ago
    you're the one who filmed this? it's one of my absolute favorites. beautiful work!
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  • jriggity 2 years ago
    well done!
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  • Lynn Kenneth Pecknold 2 years ago
    Superb! So proud!
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  • Zdeněk Kedaj 1 year ago
    Guys I just love this animation! I come back many times a year to watch this! :)
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  • Allen Dupras 1 year ago
    not only is this done brilliantly!!!
    The story is better then the song!!!
    And this is my favorite fleet fox song :)
    Thankyou you guys!!
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  • Ashley Smolnik 1 year ago
    this is one of my favorite videos i've ever watched. perfect.
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  • Flavio Bernardes de Paula 1 year ago
    I love the song. I love the video.
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  • Trevvor Riley plus 1 year ago
    Every time I watch this I get inspired
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  • Alper Özgün Yeşil 9 months ago
    rememberable :)
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  • Chris Kotcher plus 9 months ago
    Beautiful, inspiring, moving. Seriously one of my favorite music videos ever - thank you.
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  • ivan aguiar 8 months ago
    magic.. almost tangible.
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  • Lucas Griego 7 months ago
    Brilliant. The claymation works brilliantly for this song. Just sublime!
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