Using a combination of Flash & Photoshop to create the painted/textured style of the short, Mirco and his partner Scott MacDonald (who was the storyboard artist and backgrounds designer) developed a fairly unique look for this music video and the end result speaks for itself.

Scott has also created such online shorts as Turkey Legs, the amazing folk tale of a boy among men.

He and his teammates Seth Cooper and Joe Kossuth completed the job in only six weeks! Devin has a raw style and some of the best ideas I’ve seen in animation. He was nice enough to answer a few questions for LineBoil about the video.

BRENDAN: Did you storyboard this video, or go straight ahead with your ideas?

DEVIN: My process is weird. I throw an inspirational sketch directly into the timeline of a Flash file and go straight to layout.

So I guess, yea, straight-ahead. Pretty Loose. Almost improvised action based off of the initial poses. Somehow I keep the motion in my head so the layout is the most labored stage.

BRENDAN: What was the approval process like?

DEVIN: Initially he had seen my show and really got into it, so he just asked me to do my thing and said he had a zombie theme in mind.

I showed Alchemist the animatic, he had some requests and I went back in to try and make it work for both of us. He was very supportive and open to my ideas. The main issue was that it came across that it was his video without letting the big-name rappers steal the spotlight. This was difficult because it’s their voices you hear throughout the song. I think his presence is well felt and we’re both really happy with how it came out.

BRENDAN: The video has a similar tone to the Ya’ll So Stupid shorts you did for SuperDeluxe. Was the process for producing this video similar to your YSS pipeline?

DEVIN: I feel like the subject matter might be similar to the cacahuananche segments, but the tone is kinda different. It’s a zombie flick. Ha ha. Yes. Similar production process. I used my YSS team… but even without the VO sessions, it still took a little longer to make since there was more back and forth between Alc and myself and probably a bit more animation crammed in for good measure as a result.

BRENDAN: What projects do we have to look forward to in the future from you?

DEVIN: I have a new show in the works. I’ll be showing it to some folks soon and hopefully I’ll find the right match and it will surface. Adultswim.com has picked up the remaining YSS episodes and they are now live on that site as well as Superdeluxe.

Also, for an offbeat break from what you normally expect from me, or just something to beat off to, check out Dance Floor Dale. This is a video I did in collaboration with Eric Wareheim and Eric Fensler.