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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
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 1 day ago
    AMAZING!!!!!! Thank you so much!
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  • Joe Miller 1 day ago
    Wow.
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  • Dave 1 day ago
    Brilliant!
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  • Jason Sondhi staff 1 day 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.
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  • Adam Netsky plus 1 day 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 1 day ago
    wow!
    You guys are truly a talented family.
    Great work.
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  • Evan Isaac Magidovitch 1 day ago
    Woah.
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  • Jubadaba plus 1 day ago
    love the underwater sea creatures!
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  • Tom Judd plus 1 day ago
    This is stunning Sean!!! Particularly love the sea monsters. Shared on animade.tv
  • Sean Pecknold plus 1 day ago
    awesome thanks Tom!
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  • Matt Smithson plus 1 day ago
    amazing as usual!! love this!
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  • thatgo plus 1 day ago
    great work sean, worth the wait
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  • matt lambert plus 1 day ago
    fucking magic!
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  • Eran Hilleli plus 1 day ago
    rare magic.
    messed up my pulse.

    congratulations to you all for this outstanding brilliant creation.
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  • Thommy Browne plus 1 day 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 1 day ago
    Trop Beau!
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  • Lynn Kenneth Pecknold 1 day ago
    Beautiful Piece!
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  • Mark Schoneveld 1 day ago
    Beautiful work, Sean + Britta + team!
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  • Toby Howell plus 1 day ago
    amazing
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  • Katie Armstrong staff 1 day ago
    You! Man oh man, this is just. Unbelievable!
  • Sean Pecknold plus 1 day ago
    thank you katie!!!
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  • Bran Dougherty-Johnson plus 1 day ago
    Great, Sean! Wow.
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  • Hunter Davis 1 day ago
    Oh this is excellent!!! Thank your for my morning being made
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  • Javier de Gregorio 1 day ago
    Amazing...really amazing!!
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  • Rhodi Iliadou 1 day ago
    This is your best work! So beautiful! and congrats to the character illustrator!
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  • Veras Fawaz 1 day ago
    Hands down one of the coolest visually appealing clips of the last century.
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  • Fabien Leon (FAB) plus 1 day ago
    Amazing. I enjoyed every bit of it!
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  • Kevin Pontuti plus 1 day ago
    fabulous!
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  • Fernanda Rodrigues A. de J. 1 day ago
    Fantastic! It's amazing, guys! :)
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  • Forestry Records 1 day ago
    to everyone that worked on this project, it is incredible

    you never cease to amaze
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  • Timothy David Orme plus 1 day ago
    absolutely brilliant.
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  • Short of the Week plus 1 day ago
    Fantastic stuff!
    +
    vimeo.com/channels/shortoftheweek
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  • Adam Kramer 1 day ago
    so beautiful! thank you!
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  • peter popps 1 day ago
    marvellous!!!!!
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  • Desrumaux Celine plus 1 day ago
    wahhouuu
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  • Dan Brown plus 1 day ago
    Great work Sean.
  • Sean Pecknold plus 1 day ago
    thanks Dan!
  • Dan Brown plus 1 day ago
    Thank you for making love to my eyeballs.
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  • waleed zaiter 1 day ago
    F*cking brilliant! Way to push it!
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  • Esther Rudolph 1 day ago
    disturbing work - in a good way.
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  • François Mathey 1 day ago
    Outstanding, congratulations !
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  • Purpose & Co. / Jay Bryant 1 day ago
    Congratulations on adding that much more beauty to the world, Sean and crew! Yuri would be proud!
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  • Sean Ball 1 day ago
    Awesome work Sean! The character designs are fantastic!
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  • JACONNI 1 day ago
    Love this kind of storytelling. Color shifts are great, too!
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  • Juan Pablo Zaramella 1 day ago
    Great designs and visual poetry!
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  • Daniel Gies plus 1 day ago
    I love the colour treatment, the feel, style and scope. Really well done.
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  • The Panda Rabbit 1 day ago
    wow stunning visuals and story!
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  • Kirsten Lepore plus 1 day ago
    You rock my socks off
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  • Josuez 1 day ago
    Talento a raudales!
    Wonderful work
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  • Piski Films 1 day ago
    ¡asombroso!
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  • Quibus12 1 day ago
    Can't help thinking of Watership Down and Bright Eyes as sung by Art Garfunkel
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  • jesui morales 1 day ago
    Great!! And beauty!
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  • Vladislav Solovjov 1 day ago
    Just great! Nice graphics! Cool style!
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  • Berkanism 1 day ago
    excellent, lovely paper work.
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  • Rob Munday 1 day 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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  • Thingumy & Bob 1 day ago
    Wow.
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  • The Old Mill plus 1 day ago
    Yes!
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  • Charles Pieper plus 1 day ago
    UNBELIEVABLE. Wowzers! Eat your heart out Yuri Norstein!
    Seriously though, I loved that utterly.
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  • FlyingSpot plus 1 day ago
    Awesome work, Sean!
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  • Useful Content plus 1 day 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 plus 1 day ago
    Yes! Yes!
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  • Lily Dufresne 1 day ago
    A Wonderful Nightmare.
    BRAVO, BRAVO.
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  • Legacy of NEST® 1 day ago
    !!!
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  • lauti 1 day ago
    its so nice to see good animation these days
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  • Daniella Zumaran 1 day 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 1 day ago
    Remarkable!
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  • memo GapFi 23 hours ago
    bonne travail
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  • Cameron T. Morris 22 hours 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 22 hours 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 22 hours ago
    amazing. simply amazing.
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  • Thom Stitt plus 21 hours 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. 20 hours ago
    Wow
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  • Brad Beaumont 20 hours ago
    Holy crap....
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  • Isabelle Pinto 20 hours ago
    This is honestly incredible. Make a making of video?
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  • Joel Shaw 19 hours ago
    warm and fuzzy wonder
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  • Claudio Salas plus 19 hours ago
    ♥
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  • Stefano Palazzo 18 hours ago
    Fucking Awesome!
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  • Dan MacKenzie 17 hours 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 16 hours ago
    ♥
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  • Zachary Sweet 15 hours ago
    hands down amazing! jaw dropping!
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  • indieanimator 15 hours ago
    We have chosen your short as animation of the day on indieanimator.com
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  • Laura D plus 13 hours ago
    fabulous!
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  • Lematt [Matthieu Garcia] plus 12 hours ago
    Stunning. Beautiful work. I love the mood and the colors.
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  • Luis Otero Prada 12 hours ago
    beautiful work!!!
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  • Lance Ramsay 11 hours ago
    Great work. I can't help but pity our protagonist though.
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  • Sheri 10 hours 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 10 hours 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 8 hours ago
    you're too kind
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  • mpared 9 hours ago
    great stuff shared at thecuriousbrain.com/ :-)
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  • Frater 9 hours ago
    wow, incredible piece of work
  • Sean Pecknold plus 8 hours ago
    thanks!
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  • mariolo 9 hours ago
    again, thanks for this piece of art, it's inspiring!
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  • bobetebob 8 hours 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 7 hours ago
    thanks for the post, we appreciate it!
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  • Hayley Morris 7 hours ago
    This is so so so awesome Sean. The artwork and animation is really beautiful.
  • Sean Pecknold plus 7 hours ago
    thanks hayley!
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  • Jahaan London 7 hours ago
    Well done cool style and interesting movement :D
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  • Martin Schmidler 7 hours ago
    One of the best songs of the century gets a video that is simply brilliant. You totally nailed the saxophone part. Way to go, Pecknold bros!!!
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  • robert brown 7 hours ago
    Very Awsome!
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  • Derek Beck staff 6 hours ago
    PECKNOLDS! Yes, this is wonderful. Perfect video counterpart for this song.
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