{"id":457142,"date":"2026-06-02T13:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/457142\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T13:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T13:45:22","slug":"a-peek-into-how-pinkpantheress-new-noughties-infused-music-video-was-created-with-a-21-year-old-vfx-visionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/457142\/","title":{"rendered":"A peek into how Pinkpantheress\u2019 new noughties-infused music video was created with a 21-year-old VFX visionary"},"content":{"rendered":"

FX supervisor, 3D, compositor and editor Michos helped bring the Basement Jaxx sampled track to its most bounciness \u2013 the video ends up recalling digital artist Cyriak<\/a>\u2019s gifs (internet weirdcore classics), the looping energy of Instagram \u2018boomerangs\u2019 and the style of the Sugarbabes\u2019 music videos<\/a>, with a cameo from the noughties most iconic presenter, Davina McCall. Michos created scenes within Blender, such as escalators made out of piano keys; \u201cI tried my best to make it look like the keys actually matched the song\u2019s melody,\u201d says Michos. Real streets were shot by photographers then fed back to Michos and the animation team, who would cut up the photographic elements and animate them individually, giving Pink\u2019s map a constant sense of aliveness.<\/p>\n

The whole process was communicated over Discord \u2013 \u201cOther studios in the industry might use apps like Slack for communication and sharing assets, but for us it\u2019s just easier to use Discord, since we\u2019re still gamers at heart,\u201d says Michos. \u201cAs we approached the deadline, it got more chaotic. We\u2019d all stay in the voice channels at any hour to motivate each other, trying to survive on \u2018micro-sleeps.\u2019 We were basically a group of friends trying to complete very difficult tasks against a time limit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pink\u2019s musical world becomes more and more refined over each video, but here, it\u2019s at its most fun \u2013 a world governed, powered by music, constantly moving, devilishly mismatched (London bus stops appear next to red American fire hydrants). Working with animator galxzys<\/a>, the moving street scene (which makes you slow down the video just to see all of its moving parts) ended up being one of the most complex shots of Michos\u2019 whole career: \u201creal footage instead of a 3D rebuild, finding a camera angle that would work for the splitting effect, dealing with shaky footage, masking out every object to divide the world into parts, filling the gaps left behind and retiming it all to the music,\u201d says Michos. \u201cIt took many tests to get the workflow down, so by the final version I was already prepared.\u201d The result is the encapsulation of Gen Z aesthetics \u2013 inventive, hyperactive and most importantly, created by young voices that will soon dominate the visuals effects game. Michos is an artist to keep an eye on.<\/p>\n