Looking Outwards 05 – 3D Computer Graphics

One of my favorite musical artists, Carpenter Brut, released a music video about 4 years ago for his song “Turbo Killer”. The basic premise of the video was a world where machines were living (and hence called “blood machines”) and due to their power were highly coveted and fought over. The video was directed and written by Seth Ickerman, a Paris-based CGI artist whose goal was to capture the over-the-top 80s feel of Carpenter Brut’s heavy synth music. 

The video features a myriad of special effects that synergize to create this 80s atmosphere, of which 3D graphics plays a major role. Most of the video was comprised of CGI in some form, with only close-up shots of real actors shot live and superimposed onto a CGI set. Some of the CGI models used in the video are detailed to an extreme amount, leading me to believe they were not all modeled manually by hand. Generative design in certain scenes and models seem to help Ickerman model faster as well as depicting a more organic feel to these machines.