Animal Collective - Painting With

Animal Collective recently released their highly anticipated tenth studio album, Painting With. I was honoured to be invited by Domino Record Co. to design an animated slipmat packaged with the Deluxe LP edition.

The animation works by first placing the slipmat on a spinning turntable in a dark room, then flashing it with a strobe light set to a specific frequency.

That’s it! No screens, no shutters. As the light is strobing, you can look on with your own two eyes to perceive the animation. There’s even a strobe light built into the official Painting With iOS app to make things easier, but any controllable strobe or strobe app will do.

If you want to learn how this type of animation works, check out my post on Medium.