New Steve Aoki and DJ Tiesto ‘Tornado’ Music video We at Laundry! directed and produced with our rocking team of designers and animators. Visually inspired by 80s arcade hit Tempest, we assembled this galactic kamikaze space race ending in DJ tiesto’s 3d head exploding among other entertaining moments.

Guest cameo appearances by Omar Doom of Inglorious bastards fame, mike trevino of vampire diaries and DJ Tiestos 3d head.

click on image or here to see the project in full

Excuse the annoying commercial that will probably pop up before this video plays, but we @laundry! had the pleasure of contributing design for this piece, and designing and animating Mick Jaggers space sequence for the last 1/3rd of the video,

So this is a prime example of how the Kdu can work advantageously. Last year, the Kdu graciously curated a Hennessy artist collaboration bottle between myself and DJ Steve Aoki. Our collaboration was quite positive and we got along well enough to make a music video together for the first single off his new album. Shot just months after finishing Hennessy artwork, we spent the remaining months finishing the design and animation here at Laundry! The moral is it is as much about making dynamic work as it is about being collaborative and not an asshole to foster further collaborations.

Here’s a visual preview to a music video we directed, designed, and animated at Laundry! for Steve Aoki and Rivers Cuomo from Weezer as a direct extension of the Hennessy Art of Blending project we did with the Kdu. Look for the video soon!

An older song they are rereleasing with her upcoming album, we were approached earlier this summer to bring an animation component to the endless summer vibe of the video. Working with the director we used the the loose concept of animated magazine spreads as a starting point to a variety of graphic extravaganzas sprinkled through the video.

Here also is a link to the video on our site where we also included some of the storyboards that got us to the look we ended up with.

http://www.laundrymat.tv/poptheglock

UFFIE “Pop the Glock”

Ed Banger Records

directed by: Nathalie Canguilhem

Design and animation: Laundry!