"The video opens with the camera meandering through fields of bright lights and skyscrapers before circling around Jianbo rendered in 3D statue form. Small details like raindrops beading off his figure add to Dan's detailed world-building. Dan says: "There's real thought behind each vignette and all of it relates in some way to his experience of different kinds of honour, whether sometimes that's misplaced or not." Dan's work in bringing metaphors to stretch the track's narrative into visuality is direct a result of the medium."
"Dan, with limited resources, set these industry standard methods aside to work from scratch using tools already at his fingertips. He continues: "The data of Jianbo's body first looked like he had these weirdly short T-Rex arms, and his face just didn't translate." Despite these initial obstacles, the final video fortunately has no dinosaur limbs in sight."
"Dan's favourite scene from the video features a fortune teller machine where Jianbo's head spinning between lit signs of 'good' and 'bad'. He chatted in depth with Jianbo on his experiences with things like honour, legacy, and success: "We spoke a lot about how these things manifested in his life, and what choosing the right path looks like, because he comes from a background where certain choices could've led down the wrong path," Dan says. A testament to Dan's world-building choices, he distilled these into optic form using these scene."
An animated music video uses detailed 3D world-building, with scenes of lights, skyscrapers, and a statue-like central figure with raindrops and weathered textures. The creator researched theatrical metaphors to translate themes of honour, legacy, and choice into visual vignettes using mid-level tools rather than dialogue-driven film techniques. Production relied on iPhone LIDAR scans instead of professional motion-capture, producing initial scan distortions and facial issues that required manual correction. A standout vignette features a fortune-teller machine with a spinning head between 'good' and 'bad' signs, visually embodying conflicting paths and moral variability. Resourceful technical problem-solving replaced industry-standard mocap, resulting in a polished final video without the initial dinosaur-like artifacts.
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