Watch this: 2,000 plastic shapes filmed in stop motion for Shugo Tokumaru’s amazing ‘Katachi’

Stop motion is a painstaking animation technique by anyone’s standard, but individually drawing thousands of subjects and cutting them from plastic sounds like a surefire way to increase the workload beyond all reasonable limit. That’s exactly what animation pair Kijek / Adamski have done in the new video for “Katachi” by Japanese singer-songwriter Shugo Tokumaru, however.