“Weird Al” Yankovic — The Night Santa Went Crazy Music Video

This is a fan-made music video for “The Night Santa Went Crazy”. This project was a way to have fun, challenge myself, and bring a song I’ve always loved to life visually. While the animation was created using text-to-image and image-to-video AI tools, every aspect of the video was concepted, directed, and edited by me. I planned and directed every shot, staged every visual gag, made all creative decisions, and handled the final edit in Adobe Premiere. This was not generated by asking AI to “make a video for the song”—it was a fully directed project using AI as part of the production process. This video is a labor of love, experimentation, and storytelling.

The skills developed through this work—creative direction, visual storytelling, production planning, and disciplined execution—apply directly to more traditional brand, marketing, and campaign projects where clarity, consistency, and control matter.