Happy Monday! Have this gorgeous music video directed and animated by Hideki Inaba, titled ‘Slowly Rising’, the official music video for ‘BEATSOFREEN’. Via Hideki:
“‘Slowly Rising’ suggested to me the image of the sun. A seed was born beneath the sun, the source of all existence. The seed absorbed the light. It created more seeds like itself, gradually increasing in number.
“Time passed, but still their numbers slowly continued to rise, and before long they were quietly swallowed up by their own shadows. After everything that had lived had perished, nothing but an empty world remained. There, once again, an environment where the next living things could grow silently began to spread.”
Label: King Deluxe
Artist: Beatsofreen
Director: Hideki Inaba
Toolkit: Photoshop, After Effects
Who is Hideki Inaba?
Born in 1988, Hideki Inaba is a director and animator living in Tokyo, and is the curator of the “Daibutsu Animation Club”. His meticulously complex animations, like in ‘Slowly Rising’, are mesmerising to watch. It apparently took Hideki 6 months to complete ‘Slowly Rising’, using copied and looped cel animation produced in Photoshop and AfterEffects, which also combined his love of insects and nature. Beatsofreen and its record label King Deluxe apparently went through thousands of vimeo profiles while searching for an artist to collaborate with them on the music video.