Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head

A music video of the Gorillaz song "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head", which is about a small town of "Happyfolk" invaded by an army of "Strangefolk" who mine their mountain for its riches, awakening the deity that resides in the mountain. Because of the mining, the mountain erupts as a volcano, destroying all. Song narrated by Dennis Hopper. I do not own this song or plan to profit from this. I did this for my student portfolio and out of a labor of love. I did all the video work including modeling, lighting, texturing, rigging, and animation. I was going for a water-color, fantasy, cg art look to it, similar to the Gorillaz art style itself. Mostly used 3ds Max 9 (with the Afterburn plug-in for smoke and fire), Adobe Premiere and Photoshop to create this. Rendered in 1080p with the scanline renderer, near the end of the project, I used 3ds max 2011 with the Mental Ray renderer for some scenes. If i had this version of the program at the start of the project, that would have saved so much time creating this. The happyfolk are modeled off of my friends and family through out my life. This video was also heavily influenced by The Simpson's and White Zombie for the character development and attention to detail with everything animated. I would like to thank my firends Pat and Jay for their sage-like advice in crafting this video, and especially Jay for helping compress the video into the full 1080p mkv format that preserves the color and contrast. I hope you enjoy this final version.