The Wendolls · Music Film — 2025
Ridicule.
A hybrid music film for a four-piece teenage rock band out of Los Angeles. Live action, VFX, and a generative pipeline composited into a single visual register — every shot blocked inside AIM PREVIZ before the camera rolled.
Artist
The Wendolls
Property
Music Film · "Ridicule"
Medium
Live Action · VFX · Generative
Pipeline
Powered by AIM PREVIZ
The film
A late-night Los Angeles that bends between dressing room, van, and venue — cut on the song, lit for the lens.
The film follows the band through Marshall stacks stacked against neon, fuzzy dice on the dash, the city sliding past the windshield in long, lit takes. The cut treats the song as the script: every transition lands on a beat, every environment shift earns its place inside the verse it interrupts.
Production paired a live shoot with the band against AI-extended environments and CG augmentations, finished through AIM's standard editorial and grade pipeline so the join between captured and generated reads as cinematography rather than as effect. AIM PREVIZ sat at the center of the workflow — blocking shots, testing lens choices, and locking the look before the camera rolled.
The cut
Watch the music film.
Tap play to start with sound · 720p web cut, 1080p / 4K masters on request.
Frame study — 03 stills
Selected frames.
Credits
- Director
- Wiley Hodgen
- AI Supervisor
- Matty
- Executive Producer
- Teylez Perez
- Production
- AIM
- Artist
- The Wendolls
- Track
- "Ridicule"
Powered by
AIM PREVIZ.
The studio's proprietary previsualization platform. Ridicule's live shoot was blocked, lensed, and lit inside PREVIZ first — so the live plates and the generative extensions land in the same visual register.
- 01 · Block
- Shotlist authored as PREVIZ scenes against the song.
- 02 · Capture
- Live shoot with the band against PREVIZ-approved plates.
- 03 · Extend
- AI-extended environments and CG augmentations layered in.
- 04 · Finish
- Conventional editorial, grade, and finish — one register.