Rossana - The Entertainer

Rossana - The Entertainer

Client: BaitRecords

Directed by Ângelo Varela, Gonçalo Palma, Alexandre Muge and Rossana

Produced by Luis Pita and Kletick
Concept by Rossana and Rúben Carneiro
Cast: Hannah Mendel, Azeri Agheyeva, Mike Los, and Claire Stenning
DOP/Colour by Ângelo Varela
Camera Assistant: Alexandre Muge
Costume/Set design by Rúben Carneiro
Edit/VFX by Gonçalo Palma
BTS by Paulo Madureira and Rodrigo Santos

The Revivalists (ft Portugal. The Man) 'It Was A Sin'

Official music video for American rock band THE REVIVALISTS
classic song 'It Was A Sin' featuring PORTUGAL. THE MAN.

Asleep in the back of his beaten up car, a cut and bruised man
careers along a precarious track, high up in the mountains.

A story about self destructive behaviour after a traumatic event.

Produced by Concord Records
Released Oct 2025

Commissioned by Concord Music Group.

The Budos Band - Overlander

For Budos Band's latest single Overlander I revisited some techniques I developed a little while back, putting a fresh twist on them. The foreground animation's built with a virtual set in Unreal Engine 5.5, comped with a whole load of painting textures developed with sd1.5, while the animated background skies and clouds are all classic After Effects, which also covered the compositing as well as a load of visual effects and messy grading.

Incredible project to work on, thanks to Brian Profilio (@b.profilio.art) for working with me to build on his original artwork for the band's new album VII.

Sleeping in Public

Directed by Ciro Ayala

Written and Produced by Jefferson Berry

2025

Huun-Huur-Tu / Carmen Rizzo / Dhani Harrison - Boidus (Music Video)

Very excited to have worked on this visualiser for Dark Horse Records’ new release from Dhani Harrison, Carmen Rizzo and Huun Huur Tu, called ‘Boidus’, the lead single off their collaborative album ‘Dreamers In The Field’ which you can find out more about here.

My Passion

Official music video for "Passíónið Mitt" (My Passion) by Diva Vox

Music Video Credits: Directed by Ciro Ayala

Written by Diva Vox

DP: Jón Þór Stefánsson

Executive Producer: Victoriya Ayala

Producers: Elín Ragnarsdóttir and Ciro Ayala

Editor: Jean-Luc Fortier

CGI VFX by Provoke Films

Produced by СИЛА VISIONARY ART (Iceland)
 

Steve & Willie - Faithfully (Music Video)

Very honoured to have worked on this video for Steve Perry & Willie Nelson’s new rendition of the Journey hit ‘Faithfully’, released on Dark Horse Records.

You can find out more about the recording here.

Lane 8 - Childish (Official Music Video)

Really delighted to have worked with Lane 8 and their label This Never Happened on this video for their new single ‘CHILDISH’.

Commissioned by This Never Happened.

The Land Of The Leaf Blower and the Mighty SUV

Directed by Ciro Ayala | Produced by Roger Street Friedman | 2025

WAR

After the collapse, men sacrificed flesh for simulation binding all future sons to an artificial eternity. Women Chose freedom. From the ashes, they forged digital avatars not to rule, but to reveal the truth. For centuries, the battle raged. A war of sexes, of ideologies... Yet neither could see the truth. The virtual world was a cage. The battle, a test. And the architect? Not man. Not woman. A savage god......watching.....learning....

Directed by Ciro Ayala
Produced by John Sterling
Artistic Vision by John Sterling and Ciro Ayala
Executive Producers Victoria Ayala and Ciro Ayala
Edited by Jean-Luc Fortier and Ciro Ayala
CGI VFX and Post Production by Provoke Films
Mixed and Mastered by Dmitriy Redko

2025

Stop Motion Demo Reel

Sizzle Reel of Stop Motion Goodies

Commissioned by Various Artists Management.

Never Not Raving - Locked Groove

Never Not Raving – Locked Groove

Music Video & Visual Identity Design | Conceptual Club Culture Aesthetic

Overview

Never Not Raving is a music video and motion design project created for Locked Groove, developed to capture the euphoric repetition and intensity of late-night club culture. The visuals explore a hypnotic aesthetic rooted in techno minimalism, rave iconography, and audiovisual feedback loops, aligning closely with the track’s emotional tone.

Role & Tools

Role: Director, Animator, Visual Designer
Tools Used: Cinema 4D, After Effects, Photoshop

Visual Style & Concept

This project riffs on the nostalgic language of warehouse raves and early 2000s club flyers, combining gritty texture maps, fluid simulation, and strobe-heavy sequencing. The video plays with looping camera moves, modular typography, and light-reactive forms to immerse the viewer in a space between memory and motion.

The project also included the development of a visual identity system for the release, extending the core look across short clips, teaser loops, and social assets.

Process Highlights

• Built a club-inspired visual language using modular 3D forms and rhythmic timing.

• Designed looping sequences to simulate live VJ effects in post.

• Developed visual motifs around the idea of echo, energy, and obsession.

• Extended the design into a social-ready visual system for marketing the track.

Credits

Client: Locked Groove
Direction & Animation: Jacob Faulkner (Ordos)
Software: Cinema 4D, After Effects

Quadra 163 - Music Video

Quadra 163 – Fabrice Lig – Spin Coaster

Official Music Video | Brutalist Sci-Fi Environments & Motion Design

Overview

Quadra 163 is a music video created for electronic music artist Fabrice Lig, designed to visually accompany his track Spin Coaster. The piece explores a surreal, post-human narrative set within an abandoned space base—a lone survivor travels to an empty colony in space, they walk inside a vast, brutalist structure, wandering through empty architectural echoes until encountering a single living symbol: a solitary tree.

Role & Tools

Role: Director, Animator, Environment Designer
Tools Used: Cinema 4D, After Effects

Visual Style & Concept

This video draws from themes of isolation, memory, and renewal. The environment—an immense brutalist warehouse-meets-space station—evokes feelings of past technological collapse and quiet resilience. Cinematic camera movement and slow-building tension guide the viewer through stark, symmetrical corridors toward a moment of emotional release.

The final encounter with the lone tree acts as a counterpoint to the mechanical world—suggesting survival, rebirth, or even hallucination. The visuals reflect the tension and energy of Spin Coaster through minimal colour, fog, and rhythmic animation.

Process Highlights

• Designed and animated a sci-fi-inspired brutalist environment using Cinema 4D.

• Synchronized camera and object movement with Fabrice Lig’s electronic track.

• Created a visual narrative using light, fog, and architectural repetition.

• Used After Effects for post-processing, color grading, and atmospheric enhancement.

Credits

Client: Fabrice Lig
Direction & Animation: Jacob Faulkner (Ordos)
Software: Cinema 4D, After Effects, Photoshop

Music Video The Spaceship Takes Off 2N3055

Video concept, script, storyboard, visuals and motion graphics, editing. 

Soma - Music Video

SOMA – Locked Groove

Official Music Video | Dystopian Motion Design Inspired by Brave New World*

Overview

SOMA is a commissioned music video for Locked Groove, visually inspired by the dystopian drug from Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. The video explores themes of conformity, control, and emotional sedation through minimalist character design, cyclical motion, and a stripped-down visual language.

Role & Tools

Role: Director, Animator, Concept Designer
Tools Used: Cinema 4D, After Effects, Photoshop

Visual Style & Concept

The concept follows a set of test tube–like figures who ingest a mysterious pill—SOMA—and become entranced in a system of synchronized movement and enforced calm. The narrative unfolds in a two-tone colour palette, emphasizing restriction, duality, and repetition.

Motion loops, grid systems, and sterile environments reflect the dehumanizing effects of artificial bliss. Rather than dramatizing rebellion, the video focuses on the beautiful emptiness of compliance, subtly echoing the mood and structure of the track.

Process Highlights

• Developed a loop-driven visual system with modular, emotionally neutral characters.

• Used two-tone colour design to reinforce the binary logic of control vs. chaos.

• Synced animation to musical shifts while maintaining narrative ambiguity.

• Delivered a final piece that acts as both music video and visual essay on sedated modernity.

Credits

Client: Locked Groove - Hotflush Records
Direction & Animation: Jacob Faulkner (Ordos)
Software: Cinema 4D, After Effects, Photoshop

I Want to Laugh Until I Cry

Music by Diego Philips

Concept and Animation by Paolo Russo

Seen You Before - Music Video

Seen You Before – FuturePast Zine

Looping Music Video for Digital Single | Memory, Distortion & Repetition

Overview

Seen You Before is a looping short music video commissioned by FuturePast Zine for the release of a digital single. Created as a social promo asset for Spotify and Instagram, the piece explores how memory distorts perspective, drawing visual inspiration from Inception-style recursion and spatial paradox.

Role & Tools

Role: Director, Animator, Environment Designer
Tools Used: Cinema 4D (Camera Mapping), After Effects

Visual Style & Concept

Built around the concept of memory loops and fractured timelines, the video features a seemingly ordinary room that subtly shifts and reconfigures each time the camera passes through a door. Though the setting appears unchanged, the objects, lighting, and spatial relationships morph with each cycle, creating a disorienting and poetic sense of déjà vu.

By using camera mapping techniques in Cinema 4D, I was able to texture the space with photographic realism while allowing for animated distortions and transitions. The result is a seamless, loopable video that plays with time, space, and perception — echoing the emotional ambiguity of the track it accompanies.

Process Highlights

• Used camera mapping to project real-world textures onto 3D geometry.

• Built a seamless loop that evolves subtly on each pass-through.

• Composited in After Effects to layer distortion effects and spatial transitions.

• Designed specifically for loop playback on social media platforms like Instagram and Spotify Canvas.

Credits

Client: FuturePast Zine
Direction & Animation: Jacob Faulkner (Ordos)
Software: Cinema 4D, After Effects

Music Video The City Flight 2N3055

Concept, script, motion graphics, editing.

De La Soul - Rock Co. Kane Flow

This music video I animated for De La Soul & MF DOOM sees the group come to life as Wrestling superheroes battling aliens in an epic and darkly comic piece, where Hip-Hop meets superhero action.

The big challenge of this project was bringing back Hip Hop legends Trugoy the Dove and MF DOOM, two icons of the genre who have sadly since passed. We knew we didn’t want to go down the road of AI and Deepfaking, instead opting to create a fully animated video, with re-imagined versions of all the characters, no small undertaking.

Posdnuos (of De La Soul) had a clear vision of the vibe and comedic tone of the video, looking to recreate the group’s look during the grind date’s release over 20 years ago (with a wrestling superhero twist). We took influence from various superhero films and media, and drew upon hours of classic wrestling footage for reference. After months of animating, rendering and complex Visual effects work, we were finally able to bring De La Soul & MF DOOM to the big screen just as they were in 2004. 

Commissioned by BMG.

Until Venus Returns - Futurepast Zine

Until Venus Returns

Commissioned Music Video & Cover Art | 3D Animation + Mythological Themes

Overview

Until Venus Returns was a commissioned project developed in late 2017, inspired by the mythological return of Venus — the Roman goddess of love. I aimed to explore the intersection of digital constructs and ancient mythology, crafting a visual narrative that reimagines Venus through the lens of technology, glitch, and space-time aesthetics.

Role & Tools

Role: Director, Animator, Designer
Tools Used: Cinema 4D, After Effects

Visual Style & Concept

The project draws on themes of love, isolation, and rebirth, filtered through a futuristic and cosmic visual identity. Venus is reinterpreted as a being emerging from a world of glitch, starlight, and data, with a surreal blend of character animation, outer-world landscapes, and abstract tech motifs.

Frames from the animation were repurposed as high-impact single covers, each one distilling the mood and tone of the video into a single image.

Process Highlights

• Directed and produced a fully animated 3D music video, combining narrative flow with atmospheric world-building.

• Designed three single cover artworks using selected video stills.

• Integrated glitch effects, particle simulations, and digital decay to reinforce the theme of technological myth.

• Developed a visual arc that evokes the goddess archetype while embracing digital surrealism.

Outcome

The final output included a music video and three cover artworks, designed for both digital release and promotional visuals. The work has been featured on Behance and served as an early example of my interest in combining mythology, motion design, and speculative sci-fi imagery.

Credits

Client: Futurepast Zine
Direction & Animation: Jacob Faulkner / Ordos
Software: Cinema 4D, After Effects