The first third of this music video by director Ian Pons Jewell (for UK musician/comedian Beardyman) is good fun but then at the 1:40 mark – thanks to the VFX crew at ETC – it turns into one of the most intense Pinocchio parodies of all time.

Produced by Academy Films and filmed in Kiev, Ukraine the video follows a narcotic-fueled young man through a day of excess and desperation while comedian Joe Rogan narrates from the daily routine of gonzo journalist/writer Hunter S Thompson.
 

Label: Sony Music, RCA

Production: Academy
Director: Ian Pons Jewell
Executive Producers: Medb Riordan, Simon Cooper, Leah Joyce
Producer: Ash Lockmun
Line Producer: Olya Kosenko
1st AD: Gryts Makarenko
DOP: Mauro Chiarello

VFX: Electric Theatre Collective
Producers: Alasdair Patrick, Sam Napper
Creative Director: James Sindle
CG Coordinator: Larisa Covaciu
2D Lead: Alex Grey
2D Artists: Adam Woolrich, Adrian Monroy, Alberto Pizzocchero, Alex Kennedy, CJ Gaikwad, Daniel Manning, Nicola Borsari, Ozgur Taparli, Flavio Kawamoto, Ryan Knowles, Stirling Archibald
3D Lead: Nick Turner
3D Artists: Alex Berweck, Dean Robinson, Elpida Kyriacou, Jake Cross, Jeffery Edo-Benson, Marko Mamula, Paul Cousins, Robert Reinschedl, Sergio Moralez, Roly Edwards, Thanos Kousis, Will Preston, James Waterhouse, Felix Chan, George Savvas, Stuart Whelbourn, Tobin Brett, Stuart Turnbull, Eddy Martinez, Adam Ledger, Florian Mounie, Ivan Xavier, Karin Mattson, Mack Knights, Jon Park, Remy Herrise, Toby Williams Ellis
Rigger: Greg Martin
Concept Artist: Romain Thirion
Colorist: Luke Morrison

Editorial: Whitehouse Post
Editor: Tobias Suhm
Executive Producer: Annabel Bennett
Producer: Antonia Porter
Assistant Editor: Steven Waltham

SOund: Aumeta
Sound Designers: Tim Harrison, Seb Bruen

Special thanks: Reset Content, Jon Adams