The members of Raleigh’s Bowerbirds are very concerned about man’s destruction of nature. This is evident in their lifestyle, their music and now in a new animated music video for their song In Our Talons
Directed by Canadian Alan Poon, the In Our Talons video was inspired by films like Microcosmos and The Planet Earth series and explores “magical creatures from 3 different lands, equally beautiful yet doomed by the hand of man.” The video is made of stop-motion puppets and manually created foam and clay sets (including cotton balls for clouds). It was also featured on MTV’s Subterranean recently.
The stop-motion puppets were custom made for this video. The bird alone took over a month for the puppet fabricators to build. Over 300 feathers were manually sized and glued onto the bird puppet. For the animals to come to life, the puppet is put into position, a picture is taken, then the puppet is moved slightly and another picture is taken. This is done 24 times for one second of animation. On average we would shoot about 5 seconds of animation a day.
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