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Plastic Horse's animation about Ramo, a toucan-headed man in search of water in Paris

"The rainy season has run away, the streets are dry, the rivers and canals are empty. Ramo the toucan-headed man navigates the scorched Parisian streets searching for water to help bring the city back to life," so reads the description for a new music video for Ramo featuring Loïc Fleury.

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Directed, illustrated and animated by Plastic Horse – who was commissioned by Pentagon MGMT – La Saison Des Pluies translates as 'The Rainy Season' and follows the journey of this desperate character looking to save Paris from turning into a desert wilderness. "Park chairs melt, bollards wilt and trees slump as skeletal birds watch on from chimney pots above," it goes on to say.

Based in London, Plastic Horse is an "animation partnership" that formed about 10 years ago. "We started by making a few music videos for friends which led to some music videos for people we didn't know which then led to all sorts of jobs and making Plastic Horse our full-time job," says Plastic Horse.

"We enjoy making worlds where dolphins play the trumpets out of their blowholes, skeletons play the mandolins and toucan-headed men ride bicycles," the studio adds. "Our style is hand-drawn, 2D animation, and we love mixing the organic and imperfect with the possibilities of digital."

Toucan-headed skeleton figure perched on orange cylindrical structures in a stylised drought-stricken Paris cityscape against a golden sky
A figure with a toucan head walks across a curved sun-lit plaza beside a cream-coloured building with dark windows and a blue door in this animation still from La Saison Des Pluies
Ramo, a figure with a toucan head wearing white shirt and black trousers, stands on a parched street lined with bare trees, holding a yellow bucket amid spilled green water and wilted vegetation
Ramo, a figure with a toucan head, stands beneath a cream-coloured arched bridge in a parched landscape with sandy ground and dark shadows beneath the archways.
A stylised illustration of a melting Eiffel Tower bending over a dried-up Parisian landscape with a ferris wheel and steam rising from the ground against a golden sky
Silhouette of a toucan-headed figure riding a bicycle through a tunnel towards a yellow sun against a teal landscape
Three illustrated figures wearing pink caps and holding microphones, each standing on a coloured platform, dressed in different coloured shirts and shorts against a dark forest background
Ramo, a toucan-headed man in white shirt and black trousers, stands on a dusty beige road holding a yellow watering can, facing towards the Eiffel Tower and empty Parisian cityscape under a golden sky
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