Tame Impala
2020
Breath Deeper

Music video for Tame Impala's Breathe Deeper, from The Slow Rush. A psychedelic transformation set inside an evolving natural world.
Project Details
Working with director Harry Butt at Blinkink, Breathe Deeper unfolds as a psychedelic transformation narrative set within a shifting natural world. The team was small, so the work ran broad, across most of the film's sequences.
I led the world design and animation for the opening environment, the cave sequences and the nymph's growth, carrying through to the transformation and flight of the creature, including the dragonfly point-of-view performance animation. I designed and animated the rock-to-beach transition and the particle systems driving the dragonfly's movement.
Beyond shot work, I built character rigs used across the team and supported the 3D pipeline, solving technical problems as the environments and transformations grew more complex. I also worked on the edit and managed final render output under a tight schedule, holding continuity between sequences as the film came together.
Catagory
Commercial
Type
Music Video
The film is one continuous metamorphosis: an environment that grows, a nymph that becomes a dragonfly, a world that keeps transforming into the next thing. Organic growth, fluid motion and saturated colour build a hallucinatory landscape that moves with the rhythm and expansion of the track, the visuals breathing in time with the song.












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Credits
Director
Harry Butt
Production
Blinkink
Executive Producer
Josef Bryne
Producer
Rosanna Morley
Design
Harry Butt
Dexter George
George Dyson
3D Artists
Harry Butt
George Dyson
Dexter George
Jess Herrera
Ben Swanwick
2D Artists
Jade Evans
Katy Wang
Hannah Lau-Walker
Connor Campbell
Sound Design
Eva Paniotowska
Grade
Black Kite


















