Name
Ital Tek - The Mirror
2023
Year
The Mirror explores the remains of an unfinished city. A place designed for humans but never experienced by them.
Synopsis
catagory
Animation
Music Video
The Mirror started its life as a modest animation test that ultimately ballooned outwards for six months. More often than not, when I create something new in 3D it remains a single-day project that I keep to myself or share on Twitter. With this world, however, I kept feeling the need to return to it in my spare time. It was only after maybe five or so shots that I thought it could grow to be a music video, and from that point on, I kept going, knowing I’d have to find the music further down the line.
approach
The design language encompasses a few things. Other than some of the weirder parts of my imagination, I was inspired by the architectural designs of Étienne-Louis Boullée and Tsutomu Nihei’s fantastic work on his manga BLAME! Which I happened to be reading at the time. I’d also like to shout out my friend and collaborator Chino Moyà, we have been working on separate sci-fi projects together but I have no doubt, over the course of our many conversations, some of that visual DNA lives within the video of The Mirror. His debut feature film Undergods has been a real inspiration to me generally, and I’m very excited to be working with him on our own project!
development
collaboration
After finishing the lion-share of the animation, I needed to find a track. I had toyed with maybe making some of my own music, something I occasionally do in my spare time badly, But it was actually someone on Twitter who put me in touch with Ital Tek and his label Planet Mu. I just sent him a DM, and he suggested the track, which I agreed fit excellently! I needed to render some new scenes and edit the shots appropriately, but this was a fairly straightforward task, thanks to the quality of the music!
