When He Died [♪ Lemon Demon Kinetic Typography Music Video ♪]

This is a song I've wanted to animate to for a while, and in the process of laying out all the timing of the beats I accidentally made something pretty satisfyingly fun to watch, so I prettied it up and made it its own thing. I do still intend on making it a full music video in the future, but until then, enjoy this!

Song is When He Died from the album Spirit Phone by Lemon Demon, I highly recommend you go check it out:

And if you're into physical releases, it's being sold on CD, Cassette and Vinyl on this website:

No, I'm not being sponsored or anything... I just really really like Neil's music.

[Viva_Reverie]

Mini version of an update I posted on my Patreon: Lightning strike killed my animation computer, Brony Polka Animated delayed in the process, and my editing computer isn't powerful enough to satisfyingly use to animate things on its own. New computer in the process of being bought, and when it's set up BPA progress will resume.

Until then, I can use my editing computer to create some low-fidelity projects, including the above video (And another one later today/tomorrow). These are both lyric/beat videos for songs I intend to make complete animations of in the future, it just so happens that step 1 for making these videos (Mapping out the beats and the timing of the lyrics) makes for a very satisfying watch, so I prettied them up and turned them into standalone videos.

For the sake of respect for Neil Cicierega (Lemon Demon), neither of these videos are monetised. If you wish to support me, consider hitting me up on Patreon! I don't plug it enough and need more excuses to plug it:

[iorifujinomiya]

My takeaway from this song is that they said they never found his skull, but later in the video they mention him having scorpions in his lungs which would imply he still has flesh and skin. Either he was decapitated and didn't have a head, or his head was all floppy and just didn't have a skull in it and given how when hit decapitate someone you usually take a piece of the spine with and he had a message etched into his spine, I'm inclined to believe our corpse had a saggy boneless head.

[cybersilver]

Playing this at a funeral would severely confuse and scare people...sounds like a plan!

[anonymousalligator]

DUE TO MY STRONG PERSONAL CONVICTIONS
I WISH TO STRESS
THAT THIS RECORD
IN NO WAY ENDORSES
A BELIEF
IN THE OCCULT

[drago]

Imagine working on that case, what a PR nightmare

[kowoboy]

Remember kids, when scorpions want to enter your lungs just say "no".
Scorpions cannot legally enter your lungs without your consent.

[Dabeyoun]

Is it just me or do you really like dark lyrics with happy beats?

[GoldPrince]

Don't change light bulbs to this song. I listen to music when I work on ceiling things like changing lightbulbs, smoke detector batteries, and dusting fan so that I don't get disoriented.

I ALMOST lost a new lightbulb when HE DIED. As in the past where they checked the dude's childhood clown painting.

[BellaExclamationMark]

It is very late at night and I am desperate to sleep but THIS is something Very Worth being awake for. When He Died is one of the most "animatable" Lemon Demon songs and I am very glad that you are working on that, this video is Very Cool and stylish and I can barely wait for more!!

[unfinishedzizzy]

I love how it's just increasingly more fucked up events played off as an ordinary Thursday

[hmmm.]

"The laughing record played!" It *WHAT?* -disturbing laughter- IT *WHAT!?!?*

[Bliffenstimmers]

Wow! How coincidental! I was just listening to the Spirit Phone album on repeat, and wishing in the back of my mind that this channel would do more animations for Lemon Demon!

[ffuchsia]

When you watch this in 1.5 speed, it sounds like something out of a Sonic game.

[_marshP]

For me, this pairs really well with a "No one's around to help" gif

If I have to explain it to you, you're dead to me

[amburrito]

So I only recently found Lemon Demon by my friend, and now I'm kinda obsessed. This is my favorite. (You're At The Party is a close second, tied with Touch Tone Telephone)

[nixel]

I never even noticed the "la la-la" voices before I saw this. Wow!

[whitbit]

So what happens was he inhaled scorpions and went on a massacre, took the victims skulls and made statues oh his children. The statues were crying out blood, he made a symbol before he died on the scorched floor. Before he died he telephoned his wife before the poison from the scorpion kicked in and there seemed to be a record playing while he died. He made a message on his spine and said “when he died an endless age of untold nightmares would be nigh and the blood would make the seas run red”. For some reason a nearby shed caught on fire. In side was a painting of a clown and is believed to be painted when the murderer was a child and behind was exactly where he died. Some messed up shiz

[TehVulpez]

YAAAAY more Lemon Demon music videos!! good to see some more recent stuff from Spirit Phone animated

[thegalacticbucket]

Those red bars are so dang satisfying...


Why?

[emih.]

I showed this to my little sister and her response was "Can someone make a movie out of this? Are there any movies like this?"