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For Snow Patrol’s current Take Back The Cities “It was an opportunity to immerse myself in
tour, the band’s frontman and songwriter Gary animation and the natural choice to create this was
Lightbody approached video director Blue Leach Atticus Finch,” said Leach. “Using the album artwork
of Splinter Films with an idea he had come up with as the initial launch pad, we worked together with
to create an animation for ‘The Lightning Strike’, Gary Lightbody to produce a truly fantastic film and I
the 16-minute, three-part ‘suite’ that ends the new look forward to working with Atticus Finch again soon
album A Hundred Million Suns, and featured as in the live music environment.”
the encore on the recent UK & Ireland dates. Thirty-two year old Lightbody’s idea was a rough
Leach — winner of the 2009 TPi Video Director outline, written as a stream of consciousness with the
of the Year award — took the project to Atticus overall premise to represent Earth, the solar system
Finch (AF) to be designed and realised in CGI, having and universe as origami.
previously worked with AF’s animation producer Jim Splinter producer Emer Patten is delighted with
Waters, on Splinter projects for Depeche Mode and how the early ideas were developed and the impact
Linkin Park. AF undertook the animation under Leach’s of the work. “It’s fantastic,” she said. “The animation
directorship and Splinter Films’ vast experience of live has made the concerts a unique experience for the
Above: Gary Lightbody.music event production. fans. It’s a joy to watch the audience, as they stand
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