Carine Khalife

While browsing through Vimeo's Editors' Picks of the day, I discovered this absolute gem. I adore nearly everything about this music video animation. The music is by a band called YOUNG GALAXY, and all of the artwork is created and directed by Carine Khalife, whom I had never come across before. The dreamy audio track works incredibly well with this fantastical video, in which animals in suits roam through woodland and plains. While the action itself is relatively simple; with the only animation being of the animals' walk cycles, the detail that goes into creating each single frame is phenomenal. It appears to me that each frame of the character's animation is hand painted. The textures and colour variations created by this look wonderfully unusual, and I have fallen in love with it. I could continue to watch this video again and again. It just goes to show that even without a strong storyline-type narrative, an animation can still be visually and emotionally stimulating.