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Guns N’ Roses: Appetite for Destruction

Thirty years of Appetite for Destruction, reimagined from the artwork out.

For the album’s 30th anniversary, Universal Music asked Whitecoat Creative Lab for a celebratory animated promo with almost no prescribed creative direction.

As Senior Motion Designer, I developed the story, visual language and animation alongside Maxwell Broughton, building the piece from script and storyboard through 3D, compositing and final animation.

Senior Motion Designer

Whitecoat Creative Lab

Guns N’ Roses

Animated Promo

Guns N’ Roses: stylised animated guitarist and Hollywood backdrop
Image Credit: Whitecoat Creative Lab

A rougher edge

The visual language came directly from the character of the album artwork.

We reimagined the band as skeletons and built a gritty, overprinted world around them, combining 3D animation with dropped frames, moving textures and heavy post-processing to make the imagery feel less computer-generated and more tactile.

Once that language clicked, it became the rule for the whole piece: fast camera moves, abrupt transitions and a deliberately rough finish that carried the energy of the record.

Guns N’ Roses: a stylised skull in the animated promo
Image Credit: Whitecoat Creative Lab

See it in motion

Project credits

Senior Motion Designer: Max Italiaander at Whitecoat Creative Lab

Created for Universal Music to mark the 30th anniversary of Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction.

Concept, writing, design and animation: Max Italiaander and Maxwell Broughton.

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