From the creator:
Glassworks Creative Studio director Hugo Rodríguez Rodríguez commands all the colors of the rainbow in this dreamy companion to Khruangbin’s latest track. Pelota is the release single on the Texan trio’s new studio album Mordechai, but she is also a bundle of energy that bounces through the galaxy like a spirited ball.
Produced in eight weeks with a remote setup in Coronavirus times, this psychedelic journey brought together our team of pan-national talent – a mixed cel animation, 3D and 2D production that translates Alvaro Sotomayor’s magical story into visuals that capture Khruangbin’s musical aesthetics.
BAND
Khruangbin
PRODUCTION AND POST
Glassworks Creative Studio
Director: Hugo Rodríguez Rodríguez
Writer: Alvaro Sotomayor
Storyboard, Concept & Design: Hugo Rodríguez Rodríguez
Editors: Nils Crompton, Leonardo Grassi
Lead Compositor: Nils Crompton
Compositing Arists: Jef Fleurkens, Alexis da Camara, Leonardo Grassi, David Rodríguez Rodríguez
Cel Animation Lead: Hugo Rodríguez Rodríguez
2D Clean-up: Līna Ozoliņa, Patrick Armstrong, Callum Sewell
3D Artists: Callum Austin, Jef Fleurkens, Gustav von Platen, Jacson Mitchell
MCR: Andrew Kidd
COO: Anya Kruzmetra
Executive Producer: Chris Kiser
Head of Production: Belén Palos
Junior Producer: Katie Liston
SPECIAL MENTIONS
Thank you to Hector Macleod, Duncan Buxton, Sofía Cruz, Juan Torán, Joshua Robert Nicholson Taylor, Rüdiger Kaltenhäuser
In loving memory of José Fernández Izard, may you always be surrounded by music and light.
And of Nash, forever chasing a bouncing star.
Ojitos de las estrellas,
fijo en una y otra os juro
que me habéis de mirar siempre,
siempre puro.
Gabriela Mistral.