One other creative and stirring collaboration between Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett and Emmy-nominated Nexus Studios director Fx Goby (Again to the Moon) has arrived within the new music video for “Silent Operating ft. Adeleye Omotayo.” The epic song-story follows the creatives’ current collaboration on the “Cracker Island ft. Thundercat” MV, the title observe for the band’s upcoming new album.
Hewlett and Goby got down to create a narrative-led, creatively bold piece, bringing collectively prosthetics, pyrotechnics, efficiency and complex visible results. Produced by Nexus Studios, the live-action and animation-infused video’s sense of scale is conveyed by way of layers of huge and small particulars giant and small, incorporating minuscule carvings on cave partitions, evaporating cult members and the usage of actual fireplace on set.
“It was a mega-ambitious undertaking, so we needed to be mega-creative to get each element excellent. It was a thrill to seize all of this whereas exploring every of the Gorillaz members’ tales,” Goby famous.
On this story world, the Gorillaz final 12 months relocated from Kong Studios in West London to a Silver Lake, Calif. mansion and residential primarily based for “The Final Cult.” Right here, the Nice Chief (a.okay.a. Murdoc) has fallen in love along with his neighbor and has bottled his scent or Divine Essence. In the meantime, Russel is caught up attempting to discern the reply to saving humanity within the tv static, Noodle is compiling a handbook of knowledge and 2D is… busy being 2D.
Because the band hunts for the One Reality to repair the world (and Murdoc out to impress the gal subsequent door), they’re barreling in the direction of a day of reckoning known as The Rupture — the character of which and the destiny of the Gorillaz being revealed within the new video.
“Properly, chuffing hell! What an emotional roller-coaster experience that was! I can see the headlines now: ‘Murdoc’s Bathwater Saves Humanity!’ All the time the plan TBH, simply saved it underneath my hat till the large end,” sez Murdoc.
