Even with a miniDV composite, "Mosh" is styled so that you don’t notice anything low-end about it – the final result is a tense, moody piece. "This was the type of video that could only be done in animation," says Director Ian Inaba. "I don’t think we could have ever gotten a permit to shoot kids with black hoodies storming Congress."

We like videos that beat The Man. This one tackles Him budget-wise and theme-wise. Nice.

1. Anson Vogt: There were no shots of Eminem’s legs, as there was little space to walk in front of the green screen. We carefully maneuvered the camera through the space so as not to reveal this.

2. Vogt: There wasn’t enough time to fully render the scene in 3D which is projecting from the Jumbotron, so the characters were composited over a still of the street in Flash, and then Em was composited in After Effects. The Jumbotron effect masks any inconsistencies which may have been perceived. Still backgrounds were composited in Flash for many of the shots where there is no dramatic perspective change.

3. Vogt: Once the takes were aligned to one track, we isolated all the best parts and cut between the moments where his body language spoke the loudest. This is what produces the jump-cutting effect.

Inaba: We processed the look of the video in After Effects to level the video footage out with the pure animation characters that were built in Flash.

4. Vogt: From After Effects, the footage was imported into 3dsmax, and mapped with the same method as were the Flash animated characters, onto 2D planes and translated in 3D space facing the camera.

Flash doesn’t have an engine to properly render raster video files from clips using action scripts. As a result, every shot created in Flash with scripting, and each variation of every sequence was manually imported and exported through Director, so it can’t render images larger than the screen resolution, or with an alpha channel, so some sequences were just rendered with a hot pink or green background and traditionally matted in After Effects.

Inaba: Shooting with the Panasonic DVX-100 on a portable green screen may have caused a bit of skepticism, but in the end everyone was happy with the final product. It just goes to show that lower cost digital tools really have crossed the threshold for music video production.

5. Vogt: This is an example of a shot done entirely in Flash. Up until halfway through the project, we were animating Eminem’s character in Flash like the other characters, but there was something lacking – Em’s direct energy: the subtle nuances of his body language which we soon realized could not be animated – so we put all our bets on Em’s green screen performance, which we had never used in this way.

CREDITS: Producer, Director, Editor: Ian Inaba, Guerilla News Network ¦ Art Director, 3D Animation: Anson Vogt, Phong ¦ Character Animation: Haik Hoisington, Black Mustache ¦ Motion Graphics: Steve Ogden ¦ Illustration, Animation: Craig Patches ¦ Eminem Animation: Kevin Elam ¦ After Effector: Mark Nicola ¦ Green screen Producer, Cameraman: John Quigly ¦ Illustration Design: Thomas Brohdal ¦ Illustration Support: Nicholas Sanchez