Back in February 2021 I got to design the single cover for 'Twisted', a track from Merkules featuring Jelly Roll. The song was part of his Merk Monday's series, with this entry produced by C-Lance and mixed by Nato at Up In Arms Studios in Edmonton.
Using Photoshop, I created a 3000x3000 px template and added a twisting effect to the font to play on the name itself. I then brought in a stock image of a spring, along with logos and some texture assets. Using blending modes, I pulled some through the logos and font, as well as laid some overtop to add some grit. Below is the final result:
The cover also provided most assets for the motion video on YouTube. Cutouts of both Merkules and Jellyroll were also created for the video.
The PSD file was then imported into Adobe Premiere, with the layers separated for the purpose of controlling them individually. The layer styles in Premiere were then set to match what they had been set to in Photoshop, preserving the texture effects.
A slight amount of movement was then added to individual assets, with a glitch effect 'resetting' the loop every 8 bars:
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