WEAK13 frontman Nick J Townsend, an experienced music video producer, spent hours and hours painstakingly creating the stop-motion animation video to accompany the band’s single Unpopular.
The singer and guitarist said he enjoyed the creative process – despite having zero experience in animation or claymation – but never in his wildest dreams could he have imagined the response following a series of film festival submissions.
Nick, who divides his time between Stourbridge and Telford, explained how the idea took off: “A couple of years ago I had a crazy idea of making my own version of Wallace & Gromit for a modern audience and even though I had no experience at all in animating or claymation I figured it would be a laugh anyway.”
Incredibly, it has now been shortlisted for four awards – and it’s also won a screening slot at another film festival.
Conscious that he would be unable to enter every film festival in the world, Nick decided to concentrate his efforts on ones that begin with the letter B.