The sequence sets the mood for the entire film, a bizarre visual feast enhanced by the JAMM team's attention to detail. Additionally, JAMM created the CG opening titles featuring the neon-lit insect encircling the Die Antwoord logo and song title. Incorporating references from the natural world, we made a custom digital mold that could evolve, with delicate threads of webbing that would grow down the contour of the alien's body.Īnother exciting aspect for this project was creating a photorealistic centipede with the wings of a damselfly, led by Animation Supervisor Stew Burris.
When she catches a glowing centipede-like creature and eats it – ravenously – a metamorphosis begins, starting with a webbed cocoon that begins to grow and glow around her.ĬG Artist Zak DiMaria led the JAMM team through the cocoon FX simulation, the most challenging aspect of the VFX process. Shot in Detroit, the video features Yolandi as a hoodie-wearing, insect-resembling alien whose non-citizen status forces her to trawl the streets alone. JAMM was brought on to bring Ninja's grotesquely beautiful vision to life, with the goal for the VFX to create something never-before-seen yet authentic-feeling, a creature transformation which could exist within the pages of National Geographic. She will be in Johannesburg on 30 November at the FNB Stadium and in Cape Town on 3 December at the Cape Town Stadium.Directed by Die Antwoord’s Ninja, the story he conceived with band-mate Yolandi Visser for "Alien" shows the South African group continuing to push the boundaries of what a music video can be. Lady Gaga is set to perform two stadium shows in South Africa next month. The group is currently in the US for a tour and will be stopping over in New Orleans, Toronto, New York and Los Angeles. When I looked on the back, my face was under the "Did You Know" section. I then received a package wrapped in a large Chappies wrapper. "They phoned me after seeing the video and asked me if they could send me a gift. "But this is just a coincidence, as the song was released in February when she was still fit," Yo-landi assured.ĭespite the controversy the video has caused, Yo-landi's face has been added to the "Did You Know" section of the Chappies chewing gum wrappers. Lady Gaga fans are also upset because they think we named the song Fatty Boom Boom because Gaga picked up a lot of weight recently. "The video also premiered on US television the other day. Though tame by today’s standards, Madonna’s Justify My Love was rejected by MTV in 1990 and picked up. Die Antwoord hit back at her, much to the dismay of Lady Gaga fans everywhere.Īccording to Yo-landi, the video has also caused an outrage in the US. Hip-hop videos weren’t the only Box staples that probably gave Tipper Gore agita. It's an African thing - they wouldn't understand it," Yo-landi explained.ĭie Antwoord and Lady Gaga were both locked in a war of words last week after Lady Gaga, a self-confessed fan of the zef-rap crew, took to Twitter to express her feelings about the video. "The pitch black Yo-landi in a street filled with colours around her immediately attracts your eye when jumping from the dark voodoo-room with Ninja and his backup dancers, who are also painted black. Ninja painted my face black for the video as part of our visual idea to illustrate an inter dimensional bridge between the colour filled streets and the pitch black voodoo-room in the video. In an interview with Die Burger's Theunis Engelbrecht, Yo-landi shrugged off racist allegations surrounding the video. Since the video premiered last week, it has attracted nearly 3 million views on YouTube. In true Die Antwoord style, Yo-Landi takes fashion to a new level as she is covered head to toe in blackface and wears a dress made of Chappies chewing gum wrappers, while Ninja sports white body paint and black contact lenses. She spots Die Antwoord's Ninja and Yo-Landi Vi$$er get ready for a street performance and is immediately impressed by them. Yo-landi has dismissed allegations saying that "it's an African thing" and that people "wouldn't understand".ĭie Antwoord's Fatty Boom Boom video shows 'Lady Gaga', played by a male actor, in her infamous meat dress as she gets a minibus taxi tour of downtown Johannesburg. Cape Town - Yo-landi Vi$$er has spoken out about the racial allegations against Die Antwoord's latest music video Fatty Boom Boom, saying she "doesn't know what blackface is", reports Die Burger.
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