music video – odd.global https://odd.global Different. By Design. Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:10:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://odd.global/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/cropped-odd-icon-32x32.jpg music video – odd.global https://odd.global 32 32 Dancing With Shadows /The Transits https://odd.global/portfolio-item/dancing-with-shadows-the-transits/ Fri, 25 Jul 2025 19:15:30 +0000 https://odd.global/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2911 The Brief

The Transits are an indie band working remotely between Aotearoa and South Africa. For their track Dancing With Shadows they wanted a music video that could hold the emotional weight of the song. Darkness. Depression. Recovery. Hope.

Turning internal states into visuals that felt raw, poetic and true is not the easiest of challenges, let alone doing it with limited production resources. In this case, the total creative freedom the band offered from the start was crucial and set the tone for a collaborative process based on trust and experimentation.

The Approach

We began by diving into the themes of the song and gathering visual and tonal references from work we love and that connects to this emotional space.

A central metaphor emerged. A world being taken over by shadows, collapsing under emotional weight and emerging back into the light.

With that foundation we worked with the band to shape small narrative threads within that world. Generative AI gave us a way to build worlds succumbing and characters drifting between collapse and clarity.

The Outcome

The final film is not a literal story or illustration to the music, but a visual translation of feeling and companion to it. While it shows individual journeys from descent to emergence, it leaves space for each viewer to bring their own interpretation, meant to be felt more than understood.

The video was covered by international music and creative outlets and featured in an interview on CNN Brazil. But more important than reach, is that it felt aligned with the song. That was always the point.

]]> Late Nights /COOLETHAN & Emma Dillemma https://odd.global/portfolio-item/late-nights-coolethan-emma-dillemma/ Mon, 21 Jul 2025 08:14:39 +0000 https://odd.global/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2985 Directed by long time collaborator and friend Ian Sweeney, the official video for COOLETHAN and Emma Dilemma’s “Late Nights.” song had some time and budget limitations to adhere to, but imagination was wide open. Working alongside the director, we created a few AI flash frame inserts that could deepen the eerie and unsettling tone without changing the structure or style of the cut.

We kept our role small and surgical. Our goal was to craft blink length inserts that echo the haunting themes and blend into the rhythm of the edit. We focused on imagery that breath like pulses in darkness, fleeting textures and classic haunting visuals generated with AI, matched grain and grade, and delivered for the editorial team to drop them in as they wished.

Small pieces, big atmosphere.

  • Song written and performed by The MC Type and Emma Dilemma.
  • Video written and directed by Ian Sweeney.
  • Prod. Co: Fish&Clips.
  • Producer: Johnny Gilbert
  • DP: Simon Tutty.
  • Starring Julie Collins, Jeff Tune, Emma Cameron, Rochelle Mangan, Travis Lightband, Danelle Hills, Ella Lucas, and Will Jammeh.
  • Hair and MakUp: Look.Bomb.
  • Editor: Ben Chesters.
  • Wardrobe: Derya Parlak.
  • Art Director: Madison Christian.
  • 1st AC: Kim Thomas
  • Gaffer: Karl Saunders
  • Best Boy: Paul Abbott
  • Art Assistant: Olivia Waton
  • H&M: Lisa Shearer Online
  • Editor: Anita Ward
  • Colourist: Julian Vares
  • Sound Mix: Brendan Morrow
  • AI Artist: Arthur Machado
  • Camera House: Image Zone
]]> That Bitch Is Crazy /EmmaDillemma https://odd.global/portfolio-item/that-bitch-is-crazy-emmadillemma/ Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:55:13 +0000 https://staging.odd.global/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2642 For Emma Dilemma’s stealth-release single “That Bitch Is Crazy,” we created a punchy short video that landed online the same day as the track. A custom-trained model captured Emma’s look, while performance-transfer lip-sync locked every word to her recorded vocals, all produced in collaboration with the artist in record time.

 

]]> LLM – Modello Linguistico Divino https://odd.global/portfolio-item/llm-modello-linguistico-divino/ Thu, 13 Jun 2024 11:38:03 +0000 https://staging.odd.global/?post_type=portfolio-item&p=2496 An experimental music video that combines the worlds of high fashion and avant-garde art through the lens of AI, exploring the double meaning of “LLM” in Latin Languages.

 

Concept: Arthur Machado

Images: Midjourney

Animation: Runway Gen-2, Luma Dream Machine, PixVerse, Pika Labs

Original Music: UDIO

Lyrics: ChatGPT

 

Festival & Award Highlights
  1. Best Musical Film (Short) – IMVA (Nominee)
  2. Best AI-Gen Film – FFTG Awards, Grand Jury Choice 2024 (Nominee)
  3. Special Mention, Concept – FFTG Awards, Grand Jury Choice 2024 (Winner)
  4. Best New Media – Lonely Wolf Int’l Film Festival 2024 (Winner)
  5. Best New Media &/or Episodic Series – Areas 1 Underground Film Contest (Winner)
  6. Best Original Score – Areas 1 Underground Film Contest (Nominee)
  7. Best Original Song & Music Video – Areas 1 Underground Film Contest (Nominee)
  8. Award of Excellence (Creativity/Originality) – Best Shorts Competition (Winner)
  9. Award of Excellence, Special Mention (Experimental) – Best Shorts Competition
  10. Best Music Score – Berlin Shorts Award 2025
  11. Best Art Film – AI International Film Festival 2024
  12. Best Original Song – AI International Film Festival 2024
  13. Best Production – AI International Film Festival 2024
  14. Official Selection – AI Short Film Festival “Larissa Lumina” 2024
  15. Official Selection – BAIFF Burano Artificial Intelligence Film Festival 2024
  16. Semi-Finalist – New Wave AI Film Festival 2024
  17. Shiny List Selection

 

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