Sadboy Apex goes into great detail for his first official video, “thanks for the tragedy, i need it for my art”: “thanks for the tragedy, I need it for my art” is my first music video. It is inspired heavily by the visual storytelling of Indie film artists. We started with a simple single location shoot revolving around a handful of scenes. The transitions were kept as minimalist as possible so that we could dress them up with post-animation. The compositions of most of the shots left empty space to allow for the animator to animate characters and lyrics. Thematically, the animations start out light as a play on the…