‘The Night Santa Went Crazy’ Music Video
While the animation was created using text-to-image and image-to-video AI tools, every aspect of the video was conceptualized, directed, and edited by me. This fan-made music video for the “Weird Al” song, “The Night Santa Went Crazy” was a way to have fun, challenge myself, and bring a song I’ve always loved to life visually.
AI-ASSISTANCE AND PROMPTS
Every scene, manually prompted and refined
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.
IMAGE PROMPT:
Rankin-Bass style view of the Earth in outer space with a big red and white striped sign sticking out of the North Pole. Arrow pointing down.
VIDEO PROMPT 1:
Rankin-Bass style animation. The stars twinkle and the camera slowly zooms in on the north pole.
VIDEO FINAL PROMPT:
Rankin-Bass style animation. The stars twinkle and the camera slowly zooms in on the north pole. The sun and moon do NOT open their mouths ever. The Earth slowly spins.
PROMPT 1:
Santa is absolutely unhinged and fires the shotgun directly at the camera.
PROMPT 2:
Santa is absolutely unhinged and fires the shotgun directly at the camera. Stop motion choppy animation. Santa is drooling like a psychopath.
PROMPT 3:
Santa is absolutely unhinged and fires the shotgun directly at the camera. Stop motion choppy animation. He does not say anything or open his mouth. He has a nervous twitch in his eye.
FINAL PROMPT:
Santa is absolutely unhinged and fires the shotgun directly at the camera. Stop motion choppy animation. He never opens his mouth. He has a nervous twitch in his eye.
PROMPT 1:
Handcrafted stop motion animation. Santa menacingly drops into frame and poses with his claw up, ready to swipe.
PROMPT 2:
Handcrafted stop motion animation. Santa quickly drops into frame from above and poses with his claw up, ready to swipe. This is a surprise attack.
PROMPT 3:
Handcrafted stop motion animation. Santa lunges toward the deer and swipes the deer to death with his Freddy Kreuger claws, then drags him backward.
FINAL PROMPT:
Handcrafted stop motion animation. Santa lunges toward the deer and swipes the deer multiple times to death with his Freddy Kreuger claws.