NIHILOCEROS, “SKIPPER”
This is a music video for the song “Skipper” for the band Nihiloceros. The songwriter Mike Borchardt, wanted the film to convey the feeling of being trapped in a Dante’s Inferno type hell, where the character is adapting, adjusting, but always swimming up stream. The style pulls inspiration from The Smashing Pumpkins music video for “Tonight, Tonight” seen below. We were drawn to the campy, vaudeville style, and decided to combine green screen and motion graphics to achieve this.
One of the best aspects of this project was asking myself what did I consider hellish. This project lent itself to building frozen tundras, storms, under the sea, trains, a Cabinet of Dr. Caligari inspired mirror maze, and outerspace. The part that was creepiest was the bone train, this was also the most technical spot in the film. The train is moving fast pushing into the camera lens, this was achieved by rigging a camera. The noir-esque fog was created in Cinema 4D. The bone people were hand drawn, then rigged in DUIK. See below.
