When progressive metal band Shokran approached Montreal-based concept artist Dima Grigorev about making a short animated clip for social media, he countered with a far more ambitious proposal: “Why not make an entire music video?” Grigorev recently revisited the five-month production in an extensive making-of video, detailing how he created the music video largely by himself using Blender and Unreal Engine. “I ordered it just because of the Shokran music video,” he said with a laugh, before adding that he now regularly uses it for personal projects. Characters collide and fly apart with the unpredictability of an older video game, making the crowd scenes pure slapstick comedy without diminishing their scale. For “Imhotep,” that meant expanding a proposed social media clip into a complete music video and learning Unreal Engine so a crowd of low-poly metal fans could tear into each other.