Jon Hopkins 'Emerald Rush' by Robert Hunter & Elliot Dear
David Knight - 9th Mar 2018
Jon Hopkins long-awaited return with Emerald Rush, the first release from the new album Singularity, comes with this fantastic multi-media visual from Elliot Dear and Robert Hunter.
A boy in a forest is lured by a throbbing chrysalis to release a beetle that looks eerily like the young lad. Then he is transported into a cave where the swarm of beetles gather around a glass-surfaced lake. But is it actually a lake...?
And what appears to be entirely animated subtly changes as the boy slip[s into a space dimension, amid exploding nebulae. These were actually created in lo-tech science experiments by Dear and Hunter at the start of the eight week process making the film. More on the making of the video at It's Nice That.
David Knight - 9th Mar 2018
Credits
Production/Creative
- Director
- Robert Hunter
- Director
- Elliot Dear
- Producer
- Greet Kallikorm
- Production Company
- Blink
- Executive Producer
- James Stevenson Bretton
Other credits
3D Lead
Quentin Vien
2D Animation
Andrew Clarke, Campbell Hartley, Freya Hotson, Blanca Martinez
3D Animation
Lisa George-Gilroy, Laura Quinn
Artwork
Robert Hunter
Character Design
Elliot Dear
Lead Compositor
Elliot Dear
Compositor
Dave O’Neill, Robert Hunter
David Knight - 9th Mar 2018