Cs Ms Profile (large)

Miles Skarin

Founder of Crystal Spotlight

I’m Miles Skarin, a video producer at Crystal Spotlight, where I combine my passion for music and visual effects to create entire digital worlds and tell stories within them.

🌱🌍🐾

Crystal Spotlight

Video Producer, VFX Artist

As part of my work at Crystal Spotlight, I provide cutting-edge video production for artists & record labels. I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to work with some of the most respected artists, labels and management companies within the music industry - with music videos I’ve produced reaching millions of viewers online.

See my work at Crystal Spotlight

Theoverviewtour Redplanet

Steven Wilson - The Overview

My latest project is for Steven Wilson's The Overview - a 42 minute audio visual experience into the endless darkness of outer space!

Learn More + Tickets

Here you can find a collection of some of my favourite Crystal Spotlight projects

Canaryyellow Cs

Canary Yellow

In early 2020, we worked with Haken on videos for their album 'Virus'. For 'Canary Yellow,' we were inspired by 1950s nuclear tests, so for the video we combined this with themes of toxic family dynamics and dramatic destruction. The project pushed our creative limits and garnered an amazing fan response - it's probably my personal favourite of all the videos I've made over the years!
Cinema 4D
Octane Render
Houdini
Music Videos
Screenshot

Hex

For 'Hex' by Dance With The Dead, we were inspired by Evil Dead and the brilliant cinematography used for the entity - the camera flies through a forest before diving into the depths of the cabin, where a spooky ritual is performed...! It's also achieved an incredible 10 million+ views on YouTube, making it my most viewed video ever.
Cinema 4D
Octane Render
Music Videos
Whitechapel Doomwoods Proreshq 0604 Mbi Credit.00 00 13 00.still001

Doom Woods

The video for Whitechapel’s Doom Woods takes a lot of conceptual inspiration from the band’s seventh studio album ‘The Valley’. I wanted to present a mostly first person journey through a nightmarish forest, where the viewer feels immersed into another world. I am very proud of the overall sense of dread and atmosphere that I managed to capture with this video – it’s really a thrill ride into hell and back!
Cinema 4D
Octane Render
Music Videos
Screenshot

Blackest Eyes

For the live visuals of Porcupine Tree's "Blackest Eyes," I drew inspiration from Lasse Hoile's iconic artwork for In Absentia. My goal was to bring that character to life in CGI, a challenging yet rewarding task. This approach added a dramatic and unsettling depth to the final video!
Cinema 4D
Octane Render
Unreal Engine
Visualisers
Stills Blood Incantation Luminescent Bridge (official Video) 17 Sep 2024 At 16.14.07

Luminescent Bridge

When the Stargate Research Society asked me to visualise an extrasolar communication from Blood Incantation's expedition, I was able to "decode" the footage and depict their journey across the stars.
Cinema 4D
Octane Render
Music Videos
Video Production
Screenshot

Impossible Tightrope

Steven Wilson’s Impossible Tightrope is an 11-minute epic blending prog rock, jazz, and electronica. I aimed to create equally immersive visuals, inspired by Steven's music and his artist collaborators and also Storm Thorgerson's iconic artworks!
Cinema 4D
Octane Render
Houdini
Music Videos
Video Production
Stills Steven Wilson The Harmony Codex 17 Sep 2024 At 16.21.52

The Harmony Codex

The video for the title track of Steven Wilson’s new album ‘The Harmony Codex’ was a project we worked on over a period of 6 months. The video features twisting, dreamlike sequences with gravity-defying visuals.
Cinema 4D
Unreal Engine
Music Videos
Video Production
Porcupinetree Herdculling H264 3840x2160p25 V2.00 03 55 11.still016 Scaled

Herd Culling

For the music video for Herd Culling, we created a full 3D environment of an mid-west ranch that was being haunted by a supernatural wolf - based on the stories from Skinwalker Ranch. The video also featured in Porcupine Tree's live visuals, creating a dramatic effect as the wolf looks over the audience!
Cinema 4D
Unreal Engine
Music Videos
Video Production

My favourite apps for work are DaVinci Resolve (video editing), Octane Render (3D rendering), Cinema 4D (3D modelling and animation), Unreal Engine (video rendering/environment creation), Houdini (simulations).

You can find out more about the work I do by visiting the Crystal Spotlight website.