""I'm very drawn to Blender's open-source ethos: the sharing of tools, knowledge, and creative work so anyone can use, modify, and contribute. We quickly realised the most exciting thing about this project was that it wasn't just going to be a music video - it's something people can actually download, play with, and make their own," says Will. "You can link it to your face and sing along, change the character, explore how the nodes fit together, remix it, adapt it, and share it yourself..."
"Damian's face was fed into Blender that gave the filmmakers a file where they could change the parameters of the character, given it its joyous and erratic rhythms, all sourced from real time reactions. "It's not about making the most perfect, polished animation," says Will, "it's about pushing limits, being surprised, amused, and involved in the process. The result is unpredictable and organic, almost like watching an impulse take shape in real time.""
OK Go and the animation team released a fully open-source, downloadable Blender .blend project that doubles as a music video and a remixable creative tool. The piece uses Blender's Geometry Nodes to procedurally generate dynamic geometry that drives performance elements. Live facial motion capture from an iPhone fed real-time reactions into Blender to shape character parameters and rhythms. The project invites users to alter faces, characters, nodes, and animations to learn, remix, and share. The work functions as social commentary on algorithmic curation, an educational example of 3D animation workflows, and a collaborative artistic experiment.
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