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Gorillaz Return in the Coolest 3D Nightmare You’ve Ever Seen
The world's biggest animated band enters a new era with a trippy music video directed by Jamie Hewlett and Nexus Studios’ Fx Goby
In a delirium of police lights and hallucinations, the BRIT and Grammy winning virtual band Gorillaz ring in a new dawn. 2D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel teamed up with Nexus Studios to create the psychedelic video for their new track ‘Cracker Island’ ft. Thundercat. Directed by artist and Gorillaz co-creator Jamie Hewlett and the Emmy nominated director, Fx Goby, ‘Cracker Island’ takes viewers on a late night jaunt to the City of Angels.
Originally based at Kong Studios in West London, the group of musical misfits have relocated to Silverlake, California as they recruit new members to join ‘The Last Cult’, in search of the one truth to fix the world. With this new direction comes a new look, as the band now appear in super stylised 3D, courtesy of a close creative collaboration between Jamie and Fx.
With a 20-year track record of innovation, this latest move by Gorillaz into 3D paves the way for multi-platform activations and the opportunity for fans to step further than ever before into the weird and wonderful world of Murdoc, Noodle, Russel and 2D. Jamie and Fx’s fusion of animation and live action blends with clever lighting techniques and hallucinatory appearances by virtuosic bassist, mercurial talent and twice-Grammy winner, Thundercat.
On ‘Cracker Island’, Jamie Hewlett’s ground-breaking and ever-evolving creative approach to Gorillaz sees director Fx Goby bring his multidisciplinary expertise to the collaboration drawing on his extensive experience with 2D and 3D animation, live action, and everything in between.
‘Cracker Island’ is a Nexus Studios and Gorillaz production with on-location support from Tuna Icon (Belgrade) and AzuL (Barcelona), and Grade from Black Kite Studios
“Gorillaz’s iconic and groundbreaking legacy hugely inspired my early animation career. I was thrilled to partner with them to create this blend of live action and animation, and knew we would need the perfect balance between stylised and realistic. I couldn’t be happier with the sculpt and textures both faithful to the design but very much their own version. It was a privilege to work with 2D, Murdoc, Noodle and Russel not only in 3D but in this wild new era” - Fx Goby, director, Nexus Studios
“Think of it as the final scene in the movie, the bit after the grand finale when the hero (me) is about to stride into the sunset, credits rolling. That’s right, we’re starting at the end. Why? COS I WORK IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS” - Murdoc, Gorillaz
Production Credits
Directors: Jamie Hewlett & Fx Goby
Executive Producers: Jamie Hewlett & Damon Albarn
Production Company: Nexus Studios
Executive Producers: Charlotte Bavasso & Chris O'Reilly, Mike Bell
CG Leads: Dave Hunt & Florian Casper
VFX Supervisor & Compositing Lead: Germán Díez
Director of Photography: Ricky Patel
Editor: Dave Slade
Producer: Jo Bierton
Production Manager: Ruyi Meer
Production Coordinator: Tyler Antin
Production Assistant: Megan Silvester
Storyboard Artist: Rodrigo Aquino Verdun
Character Modeller: Andy Hickinbottom
3D Generalist: Andy Spence
Rigging: Niko Rossi, Nayla Nassar
Modeller & Texture Artist: Catarina Loja
Pipeline TD: Tom Melson
Animators: Fabrice Fiteni, Marylou Mao, Tom Lowe, Fatih Dogan
Lead Lighter: Carl Kenyon
Lighting & Rendering: Pawel Adamiec, Rodi Kaya, Daniel Prince
Lead Compositor: Sacha Danjou
Compositors: Gareth Tredrea, Sander Saks, Hiral Kawa, Alexey Viatvud, Gourav Kumar, Simran Arora, Osman Baloglu
VFX Editors: Andrea Zantiras, Zaki Fulford
Designer & Matte Painters: Milan Baulard, Callum Strachan, Paul Campion
Designer: Ieuan Lewis
2D VFX Animator: Bethany Levy
3D VFX: Paul Mitcheson
Motion Graphics Designer: Nathan Bayliss
Head of Resources: Natalie Busuttil
Resource Manager: Gigi Kohut
Resource Coordinator: Meg Dupont
Archive Producer: Lisa Savage
Sound FX Designer: JM Finch
Grade Company: Black Kite Studios
Colourist: George K
Colour Assist: Thomas Kumeling
Colour Producer: Jade Denn
Marketing & PR: Valentina Tarelli, Nancy Edmondson, Isobel Wise, Steph Anjo
Service Production Company: Tuna Icon
Executive Producer: Ivana Antic
Line Producer: Diana Bojovic
Production Manager: Kristina Markovic
Production Coordinator: Jovana Krnic
Casting Coordinator: Igor Milakov
Key PA: Iva Masic
1st AD: Ivan Grbin
2nd AD: Ratko Obrenov
3rd AD: Danilo Cekovic
Production Designer: Goran Joksimovic
PD Assistant: Livija Mikic
Picture vehicle Coordinator: Dejan Kokot
SFX Supervisor: Zamal M’Barek
Costume Stylist: Ivana Ivic
Stylist Assistants: Ivana Djurkovic & Sofija Jaksic
Hair Stylist: Vasilisa Maljm
Makeup Artist: Irena Miletic
Makeup Artist Assistant: Galina Yurkevych
Makeup Artist Thundercat: Irene Leon
Key Grip: Ivan Lekovic
Gaffer: Igor Pavlovic
Light desk operator: Nikola Uzelac
Focus puller: Milan Kostic
2nd AC: David Kostic
Video Assist: Željko Nikolic
Q-take: Ivan Tanaskovic
DIT: Jovan Nikolic
Playback operator: Srdjan Bajski
Unit Manager: Oliver Rnjak
Transport Coordinator: Miodrag Jovicic
Spanish Service Co: AzuL
Producer: Lyndsay Fields
Line Producer: Sol Jonas Mackinlay
Production Assistant: Judith Gómez
Production Runner: Juanma Romera
Focus Puller: Rafael Miralles
Video Operator: Victor Rodríguez
DIT: Eduardo Jiménez
Gaffer: Albert Álvarez
Wireless Tech: Martí Pluma
Spark: Pablo Perez
Wardrobe Assistant: Cyntia Rodriguez
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Nexus Studios, Fri, 29 Jul 2022 01:38:57 GMT
