Coldplay’s animated feelslikeimfallinginlove brings different visual worlds into a shared story of connection. Raman Djafari directed the overall film, gathering an international group of collaborators working across animation techniques. Isabel Garrett contributed a stop-motion vignette whose felted characters and richly colored miniature vegetation give the larger journey a particularly tactile passage. [1][2]
A contribution within a collaborative film
The distinction in those credits matters: Garrett’s work is one part of the broader production. Her sequence uses needle-felted puppets made by Cat Johnston, with sets created by Johnston and Rachael Olga Lloyd. Robin Jackson built a rig for the flying butterfly. Varying the scale of the flowers helped the team create a dense environment around the characters. [1]
The production photographs show the process at several stages. A bright orange, long-eared puppet can be held in a hand, while a butterfly becomes a broad, patterned shape that must be controlled in space. On the animation stage, these elements join a much larger arrangement of flowers, lighting equipment, and support hardware. [2]
Color, fibers, and a sense of scale
The puppets’ fibers are a major part of their appeal. Soft surfaces catch light differently from a smooth sculpt, and the visible material gives the characters a warmth that survives the move from workshop photograph to finished animation. Large eyes and strong silhouettes keep their expressions readable within the busy environment.
The butterfly is especially effective as a bridge between character and setting. Its wide wings can occupy a substantial portion of the frame, carrying color and pattern while also supplying movement. A rig makes that motion possible, but the finished image needs the creature to feel as if it belongs naturally among the flowers.
Seen within Djafari’s larger film, the stop-motion passage offers a change of material as well as a change of scenery. Its contribution is not simply another visual style to identify. It gives the journey a different sense of touch and weight, demonstrating how a collaborative music video can draw expressive value from the distinct physical qualities of each technique.
Images from the production
Production photographs: Blinkink / Coldplay. Stop-motion contribution directed by Isabel Garrett; overall video directed by Raman Djafari.
