Tornado Alley (PROG)

[Zorax]

Talk about flashbacks...I possibly saw that vid probably the first time it aired after 11pm.
We were already rocking Amigas with that quality of animation, but just for openings and closings of vids. That's the first music vid I saw that used it as the medium itself.

I would say that it started the accepting for people of computers to tell music stories as well.
The whole music vid thing is a phenomenon.

The only down side is by the music exec's themselves who only viewed it as advertising and who collectively never have had creative interests in the products themselves.

First hand knowledge of my contention is when decades ago I was in a production company and worked a few national videos as camera etc, and I still remember a producer friend complaining that top execs holding the money were making decisions based on funds and not the production and was pissed that they told him they don't really care about the vid, just get it done on time in budget and some other people will come down when it's almost finished and talk to you. Creatively that pissed me off too.

I think everyone there took pride in their work and resented the detached slave environment.
Pride is a two edged sword, but I think it's good to be proud of your work itself. It's part of your self respect and awareness of your self worth.

Too many pencil necks not in touch with reality on the ground.

And here is a free computer program you can use on two year old computers and look like disney. Whereas a cgi program 15 years ago would cost you thousands and thousands more for a special computer system. Animation and image manipulation is a true trickle down miracle for the average person.

https://nofilmschool.com/blender-conference-2022-best-free-3d-app-just-got-better

20 years ago, it cost my department 140 thousand just for the broadcast quality editing suite and it's three big boxes. Not counting the cost of 3/4 video tape decks. Probably cost them a total of 3 grand to make everything, markup to a city budget is the king.