This week I really wanted to experiment with putting most of my effort into making a unique video to go with my song. I spent all week making my own face template for a woman’s lips in photoshop, then animating it all to the stem of track 3, then applying a bunch of FX and compositing it on top of a photo with my m8. It all went pretty much to my vision, but the only thing I couldn’t figure out was how to get the magic mask in final cut to isolate just the lips. I ended up having to drown it in colors, which does look cool, but I went into this wanting to make the pair of lips just floating on the m8 screen. This still definitely works—I’m just admitting a happy accident!

Hopefully you guys find this kind of weird stuff cool. I really want to make more custom visuals for my tracks. It’s definitely a lot of work, but I was pretty happy I could do this one mostly digitally. It’s easier for me to do work like this on my ipad in my lap than to sit up at my stop motion desk and hand animate things.

Tags: dragonframe, final cut pro, m8tracker, week 24 2026, View by:evanericksonmusic