Mishkin "Good Day To Die" Music Video Official HD

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"eyewateringly violent yet highly enjoyable epic of destruction" - Promo News 2011

Winner of Best Music video at the Renderyard film Festival 2011

Shortlisted for "Best Music Video" at the Rushes Soho Shorts Festival"

Played on Scuzz for around 8 months (roughly)

Track -- Mishkin -- "A Good Day To Die"
Album -- Row away from the rocks
Director, Editor & VFX -- Ben Daure
Illustrator & Collaborative Director -- Tom Box http://www.behance.net/tombox
Production Company -- Grape Productions
www.grape-productions.com

Mishkin www.mishkin.co.uk
Ben Davy | Vocals, Synth & Programming
Jimmy MacGregor | Guitar
Ali Epstein | Guitar & Vocals
Dave 'Longman' Jackson | Bass
Bradie Nixon | Drums

A Butter God is commanding the grim reaper (Craig) to carry out his sick and twisted deeds because of a rough history between Butter God and Mr Toast. Grim unwillingly carries out his orders until eventually he snaps and decided to rid the city of the filthy cretins that dwell within it


This video was created by just 2 people, Ben Daure & Tom Box within After Effects and Photoshop over 8 solid months

Yep... it took 8 long months to create this video, and not 8 months on and off. 8 months of working a regular 9-5 job then coming home and working until 1 in the morning virtually every night and all through the weekend.




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What started out as a simple idea quickly turned into the single most colossal project we had ever taken on. Many of the shots were scaled up and up during the original draft and for the majority we had absolutely no idea how to achieve the look we wanted, it was only through completing the first half of the animation that we realised how to achieve what we didn't think was possible.

About half way through I had to switch to a more powerful computer (when the 3d stuff starts to crop in) as one of the shots was going to take 3 days to render, then a later shot was going to take 10 DAYS!!!. This is because the whole thing was build within after effects, which probably wasn't really meant for this type for video. So when 900 stupidly high resolution 3d buildings are in 1 scene before the actual build... everything tends to die a bit.

The video was completed on the 24th of December 2010 at 19:00 and then finalised on the 4th of January 2011




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For anyone interested in the how we made it:

First I came up with the idea for the video, went through the track and separated it into a rough text edit describing the layout of the shot and exactly how long it was

The it gets storyboarded (Badly because I can't draw AT ALL) and sent to Box for AMAZIFYING (yep....real word)

Box then try's..... and try's to decipher what is actually going on in the storyboard before drawing it in Photoshop whilst separating each layer so that it is prepared for animating

I then squirt the Photoshop file into After Effects where it is timed, built and animated (which sounds a lot easier than it actually is, especially within the 3D shots)

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[Mikhail Koshelev]

Guys thank you for that vid. I officialy pronounce you being epic :)

You are being loved even in the grim coldness of unending russian winter.

Can't wait for more stuff from you.

[Ben Daure]

Thank very much Mikhail, Really glad you liked the video , If you liked this in a few months we have another one like this coming out that will have taken a year and a half, it's about 50 times bigger with twice as many wars and steampunk mecha bugs. I should warm Russia right up for you

[shadowfax273k]

Website link is down

[Ben Daure]

Sorted, thanks very much for letting me know

[RokkTheDragon]

Such an epic video. It's so funny too. There are so many things in the video that made me laugh so fucking hard. All the names f shops, things on signs, etc. There was only one mistake I noticed, because I kept stopping the video to read things. It's the part with the the cute little tiny child mopnster that's chasing a bee. when it says Warning and gives those kind of stats, it says "Cure" instead of "Cute". But that tiny mistake won't ever take away from the complete success this video is.

[chisuun]

this is amazing

the animation is amazing

the story is amazing

you guys are amazing

this whole thing was weirdly heartwarming

AND I CAN DIE HAPPY NOW.

[jed theinvinciblenot]

im the drummers cousin lol

[Mikhail Koshelev]

Good idea. Steampunk mecha bugs is exactly what we need right now :)

[Arkasha Kun]

All the signs and writings in the background are pure genius!

[Joycey X]

Speaking from a strictly serious point of view, this song has some major class! Just visited your website and the other four songs are also of high standard. What is so interesting about the music business is that if this album had been brought out by RoadRunner or something, it would have hit platinum in a week. Keep that in mind.. Don't stop trying... Great potential here!

[shadowfax273k]

No problem. I'll be sure to check it out now.

[frantzen vincent]

FFFFFFUCK ...what a great fucking video holy shit i hope i can hear more from you thats such a grat music maaan... :)