170 hours to render the AI FX and afterwards collaborated with Edvard Hansson, Meshuggah's own lighting director, to enhance the visual FX, blending, lighting and coloring.
H.P. Lovecraft's "Nemesis" has been one of my favorite poems of all time and after constructing these visuals without actually a plan for their use, the idea dawned on me to read this poem and it just brought them to life with so much more meaning and dread.
It's been a little over nine months now and I thought it was time to revisit one of my favorite songs and videos with a brand new render using new tools and techniques.
They were offering a special deal on their "The Works" package, which I normally don't get because i always do the detailing to clean up after our messy kids, but it was only $5 extra and it included an "Eldritch Shine" so I had to check it out.
I recorded this song way back in the 20th century and only now has the technology to construct a graphic visualization of its sonic hyperstupefication become available.
I'm actually dancing in this video, BTW. You're welcome for that.
I wrote this bit of music around 2000 and never really knew how to classify it or get people to hear it. I ran it through the old Milkdrop visualize and screen-recorded that and then took those frames and loaded them into my Beholder software, using a variety of shiny monstrous prompts...
Original music recorded in 2011 on an iPhone using GarageBand and the audio is piped through a music visualizer (projectM aka Milkdrop) and then that was screen recorded and fed frame by frame through VQGAN+CLIP+RIFE with models trained on Mark Ryden paintings and weird creature and robot prompts.
I think we've all asked ourselves the same question at some point: are Australia's "The Wiggles" really necromantic servants of a dark power beyond mortal comprehension?
I ran the original low-budget music video through a computer model trained on paintings of HP Lovecraft stories and HR Giger Biomechanical art to produce this new visual interpretation.