Blinkink director/animator Raman Djafari gathers 14 very diverse animators (whose styles include stop-motion, 2D, 3D, oil pastels, watercolor, and felt) to join him in this visual feast for the Coldplay single “feelslikeimfallinginlove”.

Raman Djafari: “For the past couple of years I’ve traveled to animation festivals across the globe and met so many talented animators, many of which became friends. I wanted to bring some of these people to this project, artists I have seen grow and develop their own approaches as well as animators who I have always looked up to.

“My goal was to create a framework for all the animators that would allow them to express their individual style while keeping the narrative and direction coherent. The collaboration with each animator was different. In some cases I provided sketches and designs, for others I shared references and for some the scene changed quite a bit from my original storyboards.
 

“My goal was to create a framework for all the animators that would allow them to express themselves with their individual style while keeping the narrative and direction coherent.”

 
“In every music video that I have directed, there is always one idea or image that appears early in the process and guides the project until the very end. In this case it was the image two friends, lovers, soulmates. The video depicts this pair traveling between worlds and changing form, expressed through 15 styles of animation and told in three chapters: Longing, Searching, and Finding.

“When storyboarding the video, I tried to come up with scenes that hold both the fragility and overwhelming euphoria of falling in love at the same time. I wanted this journey to feel like a dream, moving through varying styles of animation, each scene connected through an intricately animated transition.

“Every transition was to bring us to a new world, but would carry on the emotion of the previous sequence. The world I wanted to create was a surreal one, but the feelings which are expressed would be familiar and resonant.”
 
 

 
Artist: Coldplay
Commissioner: Sam Seager

Production: Blinkink
Director: Raman Djafari
Executive Producer: Josef Byrne
Head of Production: Alex Halley
Producer: Alexander Handschuh
Co-producer: Jon Mealing
Animators (in order of appearance): Tokay, Dante Zaballa, Martin Robic, KINEMUS, Jack Zhang, Niki Lindroth von Bahr, Moera.cf
Gaia Esther Maria, Aaron Fisher, Karlotta Freier, Raman Djafari, Isabel Garrett, Hannah van der Weide, Kohana Wilson, Ram Han
Lead Compositor: John Malcolm Moore
Compositor: Rob Ward
Comp assist: Maria Cecilia Tedemalm
Compositor: Simon Lucas Howe, Simone Ghilardotti
Storyboard artist: Jacob M Wolf, Joe Totti
Animatic editor: James Barber
Edit Assist: Calum O’Toole
Colorist: Andi Chu @andikdc
Color Producer: George Blomiley @gblomers

Sound design: Ultraherz (Christoffer Jarlbak Overgaard)