Torche - UFO [Official Video]

The idea behind the video was to do an updated version of kaiju giant monster / robot movies. I watched Godzilla: Tokyo SOS on Netflix streaming a year or so ago and was kind of enamored with the kitschy effects. I didn’t have that much experience with Adobe After Effects, so going into the project knowing I wanted it to look sloppy made things less daunting. I started the video on my own, without any solicitation, for an entirely different song by an entirely different band (Daughters’ “The Theatre Goer“). But it was taking too long and that band broke up before the record dropped, so I switched it to the Torche song. I did pretty much everything I could myself, with help from family and friends. I drew all the designs and storyboards while listening to the song on loop. There were originally five monster designs, one of which was a giant space squid that would appear while the first four were fighting, and take them all on. I had to simplify for my own sanity, though, and en