Watch the New Video for Mac Miller’s “The Star Room (OG Model)”

A decade in the past, Mac Miller launched his sophomore album, Watching Movies With the Sound Off. The late rapper’s property and his former label, Rostrum Records, have now digitally launched an anniversary edition of the album, which incorporates an earlier model of opening track “The Star Room.” There’s additionally a brand new video for “The Star Room (OG Model),” which you’ll be able to watch under.

Danae Gosset directed the brand new music video, that includes character design and animation by Sam Mason. “The video depicts the journey of an open-minded character as they navigate the world, discovering and evolving alongside the best way,” Gosset defined in an announcement. She coninued:

I had the privilege of collaborating with the extremely gifted Sam Mason [director of Miller’s “Colors and Shapes” video], who designed the characters for the video. The storyline begins and ends with a candid embryo-like character, showcasing their development and transformation by way of various landscapes and encounters. My aim was to seize the essence of a transformative journey whereas sustaining a childlike curiosity in the direction of exploring completely different worlds.

To deliver the video to life, we meticulously crafted a hand-crafted, layered, collage-like approach. We employed a various vary of bodily mediums reminiscent of paint, coloration pencils, gouache, and extra. The manufacturing concerned a mixture of 3D animation, 2D animation, footage integration, and VFX, all working collectively to help a surrealist imaginative and prescient by way of a hand-crafted vivid, textural, and colourful world.

A new vinyl edition of Watching Films With the Sound Off is forthcoming, in keeping with a press launch. It would embody the bonus track “The Quest.” The data are projected to ship on October 6.

Mac Miller launched the ultimate album of his lifetime, Swimming, in 2018. The posthumous companion album, Circles, adopted in 2020.