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Trent Shy, a local artist and filmmaker, creates claymation stop motion videos and has a pretty big online presence and following. This week, though, things have really taken off and his latest YouTube video, at just 31 seconds long, has over 18 million views.
[content-1] “The Animator” is currently crushing it on YouTube — just watch it to see why (warning: it’s grossly addictive).

In an Instagram post Shy explains the process behind the short film, which took 10 hours to animate.

Check out all of Shy’s work via his YouTube channel.

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