"Manhorse" is the official video for Husbands, taken from the album After the Gold Rush Party, and it was one of our favourites on the Best Of 2020 playlist. It was directed and created by LAMAR+NIK, and every animation in it was captured in camera using card stock and transparency sheets. The technique is barrier-grid animation, also called a kinegram or picket fence animation, an optical illusion that dates back to the 1890s: several frames of video are combined into one interlaced image and printed onto card, then a transparent bar mask is laid on top and moved back and forth to create the illusion of motion.
Spenser Sakurai was director of photography and Aeddon Wegrzyn-Van Zant assisted, with special thanks to Mason Drumm. LAMAR+NIK also released a behind-the-scenes look and printable versions of the animations so viewers could make their own.
