Dear God, that is the finest piece of video making ever made.

...this has got to be one of the greatest music videos i have ever seen! i love the laser beam from the eyes that incinerates those three zombies...and that the raining soda and twinkies for some reason make the girls want to lose their clothes! this must have been so fun to make...the concept and story line are amazing!
awesome work!

Great video! Unless it has some sort of net novelty (a fat kid falling off of a diving board, someone lighting their own farts), or is severely mediocre as not to threaten anyone; it won't get a lot of comments. ::shrugs:

Very entertaining.

Hey thanks for the kind words y'all! infoPimps question, I shot this on two Panasonic HVX 200s at 720P, then edited in Final Cut Pro and composited in After Effects CS3. It took about 3 months of post work with three animators working for about 6 weeks and me finishing it myself for the rest of that time (after I ran out of money to pay animators).

the best one!

That was dope.

this is fantastic!

смешно :)

вот абассака, елки-палки, я чуть не родил :)
металлисты все-таки дебилы
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Here абассака, fur-trees-sticks, I nearly have not given birth :)
металлисты all the same morons

Couldn't stop laughing, Totally brilliant! You were obviously right to go for the over the top approach. However, you need to seek professional help as you appear to be mad as a box of snakes.
:-)

Коменты почитал уржался))
Все русские пишут что хня америкосы хвалят xD я в ахуе господа, а потом удивляемся че блин нас везде боятся))) я б тоже в штаны наложил еслиб тока такое дерьмо видел всегда ^____^

anj.su/ ваще анекдот ходячий)))

... У нас в стране есть два клоуна которые позорят метал и всю братву! Ебаный АНЖ и ебаный Пилигрим! Самое страшное это то, что у обоих пидарасов дохера денег, и поэтому их дерьмо постоянно рекламируют везде где можно!

Самое хреновое, что обыватели думают , что это и есть металл!!! Неудивительно, что нас считают обрыганами и идиотами...

This fucking band is a shame of my country! As as "piligrim". These morons got a lot of money, kinda "i wanna be a metal singer", and nothing more! This is Russian metal, see the difference -
ru.youtube.com/watch?v=K8KQK08bOa4&feature=related

Video is interesting.
Music is awful.

There's art, and then there's Gorbachov.

Bravissimo.

That was feckin' awesome.

hahaha, love it... the high art of trash at it's finest!

What a lot of work! Better music video than anything seen on MTV (or is this on MTV?). I especially love the cokes, twinkees and vodka raining down in jubilation. Can't understand the word, but don' t need to, good work!

Excellent!!!

Можете не тратить силы на написание негативных комментов - этот идиот их удаляет и оставляет только хорошие. Полный лузер!

Absolutely superb.

Both the video and the band.

Amazing music video! Crazy editing and substance.

Bigger AND Russianer? I didn't believe it at first either...

I clicked on the link (via DIGG) for the Boobies and stayed for the awesome video. A job well done.

thethreelaws.net

LMAO! Best video ever XD Gorbachov Kazachok:)))

Пиздец просто, господа) Я плакал.

I cannot say enough good things about this video - it is *PERFECT*. This is one of very few music videos I have truly enjoyed in years.

I love the music - especially the intro. I think I need to buy an ANJ CD.

Best Music Video Ever + You should be making godamn MOVIES!!! Amusing is an understatement. The band is cool and has a good sense of humor. Also I had to sign up for an account just to praise your ass Tom motherfucking Stern.

amazing work! i really love it

Oh, this is beautiful man! If only I had your skillz with aftereffects heh :D

This wins.

amazing!

Amazing. It is pretty close to my dream music video, the one I am convinced would be the only thing MTV would ever need to play again. Though in my head I always think of vampires as more rockin' than zombies.

Holy crap

Great interpretation of the lyrics. Contemporary and irreverent, but not to the point of outright silliness. I really enjoyed it. Nice work.

Hi Tom. You made a great video in the meaning of quality of it. You did a great job with effects and camera and so on , I agree that you are the perfect master. But as for this band ANJ. Omg man, I understand they got money and can do whatever they want to do, but frankly speaking they are very unknown in Russia, and even if people listen to them their music makes them sick. Really, ANJ is worsest of all russian bands, and I can't make myself to call them Russian Rock band, cause they're just a shit. And about all that politics stuff, so it was shown like normal russian girls became sluts. Then they started to express a great delight and so on about "democracy" shown as bubble-gums and jeans. Is it really so? That's not democracy, but I think it's quite suitable for Gorbachev psychotic barbarian. The same unreal stupid shit.
As a conclusion I can tell you that it can be a funny video for lots of people but any russian would spit when he sees it. Because it's all stupid, lies and just silly.

simply stunning. Is this mainly done in Motion?

jeans, twinkies and coca-cola! ahhhh Amerikan freedom...

really great video. i love artists that follow the "too much is not enough" school yet produce well-crafted well-thought out work.

hehehe, great stuff!!

That was the best music video I've seen in ages. It's the kind of video that's so good it's impervious to the critiques about the music. I'll watch it again and end up with that song in my head against my will, only because I enjoyed the video so much. All bands should be so lucky.

This was great. The sloppy zombie deaths were the sloppiest i've seen.

Also, I loved Saul of the Molemen. This video made me think of Saul before I knew there was a connection.

This is the best video ever.

brilliant!

Man, this is probably the best video ever! It has it all: girls, zombies, axes, metal...

Seriously, the video is just great. Congratulations.

This video is too good for ANJ, one of the worst groups on Earth (:

Wow, I was seriously blown away when I saw this. I'm glad you included the link to the band's page, and I hope that much success flows out of this effort for both you & them.

Genius.

You have an amazing sense of humor. Keep up the good work.

You rock.

Looks awesome. Reminds me of the Republic of Georgia.

This video is basically an upgraded version of Pet Shop Boys' "Go West".

The music sounds like second rate Gogol Bordello.

You are basically an upgraded version of achegevara (the russian dude who is all in a bitter froth a few comments back).

I just created an account just to thank you for this great video - one of the best I have ever watched. It is just great and I find new details every time I watch it. Congrats for being BoingBoinged!

Awesome, just awesome.

OK. I created a Vimeo account to tell you how full of win this video is. Dude, seriously, this is so outstandingly awesome I don't know what to do with myself.

Is the warship meant to be the Battleship Potemkin or the Cruiser Aurora, my Eisenstein is a bit shaky.

omg awesome

CONSUME ! ! ! Almost like it really happened when the Iron Curtain fell and McD's, the Mars Corporation, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Nike, and Levi's swept in with their mega-marketing Talons.

Quite a bit of satire and social commentary jammed into outrageous imagery. I can understand how people would get insulted, but I think the real villain on display here is the influence of hedonistic, gluttonous consumer culture.

This is a most swell video.

Totally awsome man!

Great work!

Great video!!!!

Who is that delicious looking Blonde? Is she Russian?

Loved it. Thanks for sharing your work.

nice old russia, like it

I seriously love this video. My absolute favorite part is the subtle come hither look gorb gives the blacksmith chick after he eye lasers the zombies! Pure Genius, nice work!!!

This is absolutely the greatest music video ever.

And I'm an old f*rt who clearly remembers when MTV first came on the air. Nothing comes close to this.

Okay, maybe porn, but we're talking music videos here.

boobs!

Absolutely my new favorite music video and I'm definitely going to find out more about ANJ.

Favorite part was the laser eyes. Hilarious.

Found this video (and this site) thanks to Ben Templesmith's website, and DAMN.
The whole video is great, the zombies, the propaganda, the buff oiled axe-weilding Gorbachov, right up to the "yay we're consumers!" with twinkies and soda falling from the sky.
You definitely took things way over the top, and I loved every second of it.

(loved it so much that I immediately embedded it on my still-being-built website global-reset.com)

Que estupides!
Ti bolnoy?
The video is shet!

great

My wife is russian and she approves, that must mean this is tip tops! I loves it, i'm lovin it, loves it.

Awesome video.
I think, if they will change Gorbachev to Kuklachev this song will rock too.

Hey Tom,

Hilarious video, great job. Capitalism is essentially pornography and twinkies. It's so poetic.

And Freaked is THE BUSINESS. You are definitely going to heaven for that one. Thank you.

This is great,

You should look into posting it on the new Blind Dog site.
It's still in Beta, but the site is for musicians and film makers. blinddog-production.ning.com
The company is in Hawaii and it will be a new way for artist and musicians to create and distribute their work.

This is great. Very impressive for only 3 months. Was the team working on it full time? I'm working on a film with a similar look called The Villikon Chronicles, and it's taking quite some time with all part time effects artists. Thanks so much for posting this video. Someone forwarded it to me and I decided this was a good site to upload my animation trailer for Courageous Crustaceans.

I joined vimeo just so I could leave a comment. A rocking cool video. Congratulations. It really is a great video. I've watched it several times now.. .awesome. Even went to youtube to find more, and their myspace, but I'll need to finally sign up for that I fear also. I hope the band is very pleased with the result as it was pure pleasure to watch, and made me want to hear more from the band. Thanks for the show.

Alexman, you missed the point. With freedom came products of the west, and those sort of riches so to speak do make women take their clothes off in real life. The cokes/twinkies/jeans were just representative of the things that came.

Very good Job Tom. CooL Video!

Very cool!

Indeed this is awesome in every sense of the word. Wouldn't consider it art - or would I? hmm

I love it! Great work!

This is one of the cooles vids i've seen! :)

A true work of art this is. It is funny and ironic and brilliant on so many levels.

I'm curious how much was planned and how much evolved along the way?

Did it take on a life of it's own while you were putting it together? Did you hit any dead-ends along the way?

Thanks Larry. It gives me faith in these troubled times that there are still enlightened men of good taste roaming about. Good question about the process- it was pretty much all planned out but it did sort of take a life of it's own as I tweaked and revised the shots in After Effects. I went through many revisions of a lot of the shots until I was satisfied. Because of the low budget we really rushed through the shoot day and I didn't fuss over camera coverage near as much as I would have liked to, because we could only afford to have a one day shoot. So I sort of settled for basic coverage and then took my time in After Effects where I could afford to take more time. So certain embellishments like having the zombie's brain get kicked out and hit another zombie in the palace scene were totally fabricated after the fact. I didn't really have the camera coverage to make that particular bit work perfectly but I did it anyway because I thought that scene was a little lackluster and needed something extra. I didn't have time on set to really make the fighting scenes great so I relied on that sort of After Effects magic to keep mediocrity at bay.

I saw this video on videostatic and I thought it was hilarious. I'd like to do something like this but with Abe Lincoln as the hero.