Pablo Infernal

Devil’s Heart

A psychotropic ride through hell, witchcraft, anime action, and medieval imagery.

Animated music video

ContributionConcept, script, storyboards & animation

Pablo Infernal — Devil’s Heart

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The idea

Pablo Infernal asked for a wild ride through hell. Research into witchcraft, torture devices, historical paintings, tarot, anime, and popular depictions of the underworld became a dense animated journey.

Behind the work

Production notes.

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Research hell across centuries.

Hans Memling, Hieronymus Bosch, Häxan, testimony from 1692, and a seventeenth-century book of charms supplied the visual archaeology of the underworld.

02

Give every sequence its own source.

The closet uses medieval devices and ritual objects; the book draws from Tarot de Marseille; the action borrows its velocity from Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s anime films.

03

Make the devil belong to the band.

Dante’s three-faced devil became a four-faced creature using the band members, with faces on its arms and eleven eyes. A peaceful Windows XP landscape frames the descent.

The original production notes

The full story
behind the work.

The original account has been preserved and reformatted for this site. The production discussion follows the song and finished work without reproducing a full lyric sheet.

01 / Process log

Researching hell

Pablo Infernal asked for a psychotropic ride through hell. Research crossed popular culture, witchcraft, medieval punishment, demonology, and painting. Hans Memling’s Last Judgement and Hieronymus Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights established the density of the underworld, while a skull inside a shark jaw came from Häxan.

02 / Process log

The closet and the book

The heroine’s closet uses the Breaking Wheel, Shrew’s Fiddle, the Hand of a Hanged Man, chains, nails, and ritual herbs. The book sequence draws from Tarot de Marseille, Joseph Ring’s 1692 testimony about meeting a witch, and a seventeenth-century Book of Magical Charms.

03 / Process log

Anime action and a four-faced devil

Yoshiaki Kawajiri’s Wicked City, Cyber City Oedo 808, and Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust informed the action. Christina Ricci inspired the heroine’s face and practical hair length. Dante’s three-faced devil became a creature carrying all four band members’ faces, more faces on its arms, and eleven eyes. A peaceful Windows XP-like landscape frames the opening and closing.

Complete original process archive

From first signal
to final frame.

Every available still and animated study from the published process notes, reorganised as a production log.

01 / Complete original archive

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The complete visual source record: medieval art, witchcraft and torture research, film and anime references, script pages, five storyboard sheets, character material, hand and eye studies, peaceful landscape tests, compositing fragments and finished animation passes.

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Project details

Pablo Infernal

Interceptor Beyond / Concept, script, storyboards & animation

Original process notes

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