French director Marie Larrivé and German animator Lucas Malbrun depict the journey of a young man and his psychologist in the video for French band Gable's Tropicool.
Larrivé and Malbrun were contacted by Gablé's label Ici d'ailleurs, which was looking for directors who specialise in animation.

As the band didn't want to be in the video, Larrivé and Malbrun decided to create an illustrated landscape by creating each component by hand with acrylic paint. These were then cut out and scanned into a computer before being digitally animated.

"The label and band gave us a lot of artistic freedom on this project; they simply wanted the music video to correspond well with the song's mood and that it would be wacky," Larrivé and Malbrun told Dezeen.
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"The band also preferred to not appear in the music video, so we decided to work with the song's lyrics, which are very visual."

Larrivé and Malbrun interpreted the song to be from the perspective of a young man speaking with his psychologist.
"We tried to transcribe what each moment of the song evoked in us," the duo told Dezeen. "We felt like the music pulls you into a realm of pure absurdity by placing you in the heart of playful yet bizarre scenarios."

"We imagined that the story of the song could be told from the point of view of a young patient speaking with his psychologist...