FOREVER: The Full Version【Official MV】by AJ
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Music, vocals, lyrics, and the entire video made by AJ
Cover Art made by Liam Vickers
Cyn model made by MONYA: / @monyaplay
Tessa model made by SG_Animations https://x.com/SG_Animations
Really appreciate ya'll for making these awesome models I was able to use!
This was my first time fully diving into 3D animation on my own. I pretty much improvised a production pipeline based on what I wanted to do lol
This video was primarily made in Blender, with final editing done in Davinchi with some After Effects additions.
I've played with Blender before, but this time I spent months learning everything I needed to (thank god for tutorials)
I started the idea with a temp version of the main Murder Drones map Liam gave me, basically what they used in the animatics.
With this I wanted to go for a silhouette style look with the video, as the map had no textures.
That's where the idea to use Tessa came in, as she already had that look. I gave Cyn the same look to match the overall style.
I then made the whole other map with the trees and tombstones, with assets from Superhive.
The Cyn model already had a rig 🙏, but the Tessa model I had to rig on my own.
Rigging sucks I hate it lol
Then there came motion capture; I was able to get a Rokoko suit to do all my silly dances and stuff.
Re-targetting mocap to a character rig was a nightmare, but somehow I made it work 🥲
With all of the animations on the characters, it was finally time to form the scenes.
Setting up the camera shots and actually forming the video was the best part for sure.
So many keyframes controlling the lights, the sky, the cameras, the snow, and animation tweaks.
I could use a slice of pizza right now
The whole Tessa sequence was printed onto VHS and recorded back onto my computer.
There was a lot of other things I tried to do but couldn't pull off... it happens. I learned a whole lot and I'm excited to do this again.
If you made it this far and have any other questions on how I made anything in the video, ask in the comments!