gotye / eyes wide open / music video

I directed this music video through pictureDRIFT for Gotye’s second album debut single Eyes Wide Open. A huge array of image making techniques from stop motion, timelapse photography, 3D CG and 2D compositing were combined to create the journey of a tribe of earth crusted travelers, moving back through time across an ever changing and vast apocalyptic landscape, revealing the story of earth’s development and decay.

Direction | Brendan Cook
Character Design & Animation | Darcy Prendergast
Design & Animation | Darryn Rogers
Design & 3D Animation | Jeremy Bianco
Cinematography | David Wakeley
Photography | Enrique Pacheco
Photography | Nick Reygaert
Photography | Brendan Cook
Photography | Darryn Rogers


storyboard samples


production stills