is a song by Bristol death metal band MOON REAPER. This is the music video they commissioned me to animate for it…

The band wanted to focus on imagery of black holes, abstract patterns and stark cosmic obliteration. For this, I pitched a straightforward-yet-visually rich (I hope) narrative of the birth and death of a star, which ended up bringing together rotoscope animation, warping photography, 3D animation and digital drawing.

After I used warped photos of my own skin to create the plasmic surface of a sun, hands quickly became a key motif for the life-giving energy of stars in the video. Building compositions from rotoscopes of my fingers is how I spent much of my time on this project. In contrast, discordant, glitchy patterns and compositions became representative of a black hole’s undeniable destructive power. Constant use of circles became the key way to tie “stars” and “black holes” together, considering they are one in the same, yet so different.

Godeater was animated using Adobe Premiere Pro, with digital art, rotoscoping and photography manipulation performed in ProCreate for iPad Pro.

The video has received these merits since its release