Machine Girl
Industry
Music
Agency
Future Classics
Year
2020-2025
Machine Girl is an electronic music project created by Matt Stephenson,. Self-styled as "f-ed up electronic punk" or sometimes, Cyberpunk. After many years of knowing each other we've had several opportunities to collaborate on video work for the hardcore, incredible music he produces.
Project
Come On Baby, Scrape My Data (Official Video)
Year
2025
Project
Rabbit Season (Official Video)
Year
2025
Matt reached out to me in the summer of 2025 looking to do a variety of VFX work for the marketing campaign of the groups new album PsychoWarrior: MG Ultra X. For several music videos I designed some data-moshing effects, worked on several compositing shots but the bulk of the work was an animated UI interface for the albums ARG campaign.
Project
Machine Girl ARG
Year
2025
The Augmented Reality Game (ARG) was developed to generate viral buzz within the Machine Girl fandom while expanding the transmedia narrative surrounding the band’s MG Ultra / PsychoWarrior: MG Ultra X album duology. Over the course of several months, a series of in-universe videos were released, using interactions across the characters’ devices to gradually build out the story and world.
I contributed to the visual language of the ARG by designing and animating UI elements, creating in-world logo animations, and developing the project’s animated VHS effects. Working within the lo-fi, analog aesthetic of the narrative, I used compositing, motion graphics, and visual effects to make the digital interfaces and footage feel like authentic artifacts from the world of the story.
Project
Vinyl Visualizers
Year
2020
For our first collaboration, the band wanted to create a series of visual loops for songs and clips from several of their albums, intended for Instagram, YouTube, and other social platforms.