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Music: Fleet Foxes
Album: Helplessness Blues
Director: Sean Pecknold
Animators: Sean Pecknold & Britta Johnson
Character Illustrations: Stacey Rozich
Art Assistant: Natalie Jenkins
Producer: Aaron Ball
Multiplane: Greg Pecknold
Post/Edit : Sean Pecknold
Particle FX: Britta Johnson
AE Assist: Austin Wilson
Sound FX: Shervin Shaeri
Story: Sean Pecknold
Labels: Bella Union & Sub Pop
Made in Portland, Oregon
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  • NovaStraCe 3 months ago
    AMAZING!!!!!! Thank you so much!
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  • Joe Miller 3 months ago
    Wow.
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  • Dave 3 months ago
    Brilliant!
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  • Jason Sondhi staff 3 months ago
    Gorgeous. Wish I had something more to say about it, but one of the rare videos that leaves me at a loss for words.
  • Sean Pecknold plus 2 months ago
    wow thanks man, that means a lot
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  • Adam Netsky plus 3 months ago
    Loved all of the visualizations of the musical transitions, especially to An Argument, and the great characters. This is a really special video, nice job to everyone who worked on it!
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  • Nadiuska 3 months ago
    wow!
    You guys are truly a talented family.
    Great work.
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  • Evan Isaac Magidovitch 3 months ago
    Woah.
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  • Albert Birney plus 3 months ago
    this is big
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  • Tom Judd plus 3 months ago
    This is stunning Sean!!! Particularly love the sea monsters. Shared on animade.tv
  • Sean Pecknold plus 3 months ago
    awesome thanks Tom!
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  • Matt Smithson plus 3 months ago
    amazing as usual!! love this!
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  • thatgo plus 3 months ago
    great work sean, worth the wait
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  • matt lambert plus 3 months ago
    fucking magic!
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  • Eran Hilleli plus 3 months ago
    rare magic.
    messed up my pulse.

    congratulations to you all for this outstanding brilliant creation.
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  • Thommy Browne plus 3 months ago
    Nice nod to "Where The Wild Things Are" once An Argument kicks in. Beautifully made. Well done!
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  • Sonia Levy plus 3 months ago
    Trop Beau!
  • Sean Pecknold plus 3 months ago
    thanks sonia!
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  • Lynn Kenneth Pecknold 3 months ago
    Beautiful Piece!
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  • Mark Schoneveld plus 3 months ago
    Beautiful work, Sean + Britta + team!
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  • Toby Howell plus 3 months ago
    amazing
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  • Katie Armstrong staff 3 months ago
    You! Man oh man, this is just. Unbelievable!
  • Sean Pecknold plus 3 months ago
    thank you katie!!!
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  • Bran Dougherty-Johnson plus 3 months ago
    Great, Sean! Wow.
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  • Hunter Davis 3 months ago
    Oh this is excellent!!! Thank your for my morning being made
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  • Javier de Gregorio 3 months ago
    Amazing...really amazing!!
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  • Rhodi Iliadou 3 months ago
    This is your best work! So beautiful! and congrats to the character illustrator!
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  • Veras Fawaz 3 months ago
    Hands down one of the coolest visually appealing clips of the last century.
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  • Fabien Leon (FAB) plus 3 months ago
    Amazing. I enjoyed every bit of it!
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  • Kevin Pontuti plus 3 months ago
    fabulous!
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  • Fernanda Rodrigues A. de J. 3 months ago
    Fantastic! It's amazing, guys! :)
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  • Forestry Records 3 months ago
    to everyone that worked on this project, it is incredible

    you never cease to amaze
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  • Timothy David Orme plus 3 months ago
    absolutely brilliant.
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  • Short of the Week plus 3 months ago
    Fantastic stuff!
    +
    vimeo.com/channels/shortoftheweek
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  • Adam Kramer 3 months ago
    so beautiful! thank you!
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  • peter popps 3 months ago
    marvellous!!!!!
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  • Desrumaux Celine plus 3 months ago
    wahhouuu
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  • Dan Brown plus 3 months ago
    Great work Sean.
  • Sean Pecknold plus 3 months ago
    thanks Dan!
  • Dan Brown plus 3 months ago
    Thank you for making love to my eyeballs.
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  • waleed zaiter 3 months ago
    F*cking brilliant! Way to push it!
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  • Esther Rudolph 3 months ago
    disturbing work - in a good way.
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  • François Mathey plus 3 months ago
    Outstanding, congratulations !
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  • Purpose & Co. / Jay Bryant 3 months ago
    Congratulations on adding that much more beauty to the world, Sean and crew! Yuri would be proud!
  • Sean Pecknold plus 3 months ago
    thanks jay!
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  • Sean Ball 3 months ago
    Awesome work Sean! The character designs are fantastic!
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  • JACONNI 3 months ago
    Love this kind of storytelling. Color shifts are great, too!
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  • Juan Pablo Zaramella 3 months ago
    Great designs and visual poetry!
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  • Daniel Gies plus 3 months ago
    I love the colour treatment, the feel, style and scope. Really well done.
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  • The Panda Rabbit 3 months ago
    wow stunning visuals and story!
  • guillermo castellanos 2 months ago
    I'm agree!!!
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  • Kirsten Lepore 3 months ago
    You rock my socks off
  • Sean Pecknold plus 3 months ago
    :)
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  • Josuez 3 months ago
    Talento a raudales!
    Wonderful work
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  • Piski Films 3 months ago
    ¡asombroso!
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  • Quibus12 3 months ago
    Can't help thinking of Watership Down and Bright Eyes as sung by Art Garfunkel
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  • jesui morales 3 months ago
    Great!! And beauty!
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  • Vladislav Solovjov 3 months ago
    Just great! Nice graphics! Cool style!
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  • Berkanism 3 months ago
    excellent, lovely paper work.
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  • Rob Munday 3 months ago
    I'm not a fan of The Fleet Foxes, but this is so stunning you might have just turned me.

    Added to our channel - vimeo.com/channels/wearedn
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  • The Old Mill plus 3 months ago
    Yes!
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  • Charles Pieper plus 3 months ago
    UNBELIEVABLE. Wowzers! Eat your heart out Yuri Norstein!
    Seriously though, I loved that utterly.
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  • FlyingSpot plus 3 months ago
    Awesome work, Sean!
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  • Useful Content plus 3 months ago
    I'm not usually a big fan of animation but this is just flat-out incredible. What a stunning video! How on God's green earth did you make it look SO beautiful?
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  • Phiillip 3 months ago
    Yes! Yes!
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  • Elisabeth Dufresne 3 months ago
    A Wonderful Nightmare.
    BRAVO, BRAVO.
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  • Legacy of NEST® 3 months ago
    !!!
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  • lauti 3 months ago
    its so nice to see good animation these days
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  • Daniella Zumaran 3 months ago
    I've seen your brother and the band! You are the best "thing" of the last 10 years!
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  • Michael Robinson plus 3 months ago
    Remarkable!
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  • memo GapFi 3 months ago
    bonne travail
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  • Cameron T. Morris 3 months ago
    So so so awesome, one of the best videos I've ever seen! How was this made? What inspired the designs? Are we going to see a "making of" or something like that?
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  • Rafa Toro 3 months ago
    I´m speechless, this kind of works remind me how wonderful and incredible art form animation is.
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  • Stephen Niebauer staff 3 months ago
    amazing. simply amazing.
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  • Thom Stitt plus 3 months ago
    This came out so well! Definitely see some Fumito Ueda and Yuriy Norshteyn... But really, truly an amazing film and beautiful. Plucking dead heart-strings at the bottom of the abyss.
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  • James L. 3 months ago
    Wow
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  • Brad Beaumont 3 months ago
    Holy crap....
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  • Isabelle Pinto 3 months ago
    This is honestly incredible. Make a making of video?
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  • Joel Shaw 3 months ago
    warm and fuzzy wonder
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  • Claudio Salas plus 3 months ago
    ♥
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  • Stefano Palazzo 3 months ago
    Fucking Awesome!
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  • Dan MacKenzie 3 months ago
    Really. Really an amazing piece. I had loved the song already, but understanding the story that corresponds to the music, especially the final piece... it just all came together. Amazing work, again.
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  • Vinny Adini 3 months ago
    ♥
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  • Zachary Sweet 3 months ago
    hands down amazing! jaw dropping!
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  • indieanimator 3 months ago
    We have chosen your short as animation of the day on indieanimator.com
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  • Laura D plus 3 months ago
    fabulous!
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  • Lematt [Matthieu Garcia] plus 3 months ago
    Stunning. Beautiful work. I love the mood and the colors.
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  • Luis Otero Prada 3 months ago
    beautiful work!!!
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  • Lance Ramsay 3 months ago
    Great work. I can't help but pity our protagonist though.
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  • Sheri 3 months ago
    I saw this song performed live and absolutely love your rendition of the horn part and the underwater scene. The whole thing is stunning.
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  • VsTheBrain plus 3 months ago
    Sean. You are an artist that acts urgently on brilliance. There are few who share your commitment to excellence. Well done man. We're taking notes.
  • Sean Pecknold plus 3 months ago
    you're too kind
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  • mpared plus 3 months ago
    great stuff shared at thecuriousbrain.com/ :-)
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  • Frater 3 months ago
    wow, incredible piece of work
  • Sean Pecknold plus 3 months ago
    thanks!
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  • mariolo 3 months ago
    again, thanks for this piece of art, it's inspiring!
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  • bobetebob 3 months ago
    congratulations! what a wonderful video for the helplessness blues opus. wrote about this on my blog, too.

    bobetbagundang.com/2011/11/22/sean-pecknold-directs-fleet-foxes-the-shrine-an-argument/
  • Sean Pecknold plus 3 months ago
    thanks for the post, we appreciate it!
  • bobetebob 3 months ago
    wow thank you for answering back sean. i hope to see more amazing videos from you soon! mabuhay from the philippines!
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  • Hayley Morris pro 3 months ago
    This is so so so awesome Sean. The artwork and animation is really beautiful.
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