This music video is far from ordinary. It was made using stop motion animation, a very detail-oriented and time-consuming method of animation, but one with an amazing result when executed well. In stop motion animation, objects that appear to move on their own are actually physically manipulated, placed frame by frame and photographed. The photographs are then made into a video, and it appears that these objects are moving fluidly and by themselves.
Kina Grannis and Greg Jardin, the director of the "In Your Arms" music video, took stop motion animation a step further and used jelly bean art. There are entire paintings made out of jelly beans that look incredibly accurate and interesting.
In the "In Your Arms" video, each and every frame was made of jelly beans, individually and precisely placed, to create the scenes you see her in during the video. Once the jelly beans were perfectly placed, a sheet of glass was placed over the box they were in and Kina lied on top of it, maneuvering herself into whatever position the director told her she was in in that exact frame, and then a picture was taken and the process began again. Each frame could take several hours, and there were approximately 2300 frames to shoot, so the video, in its entirety, took over a year to shoot. The end result was worth it, and as such a young and new artist, she created one of the most unique and interesting music videos the world has ever seen.
The "Making of..." video shows just how they went about making this video and how much and how many people went into it.
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