He was like ‘Here’s what’s going to happen: We don’t have any money left so you guys are going to animate the video.’ And the rest is history!” “He said to me: ‘Aren’t you an artist? Don’t you draw?’ I was like ‘Yeah’…and said our drummer Jose is an amazing artist too. Originally, we were going to hire an experienced animator to do rotoscoping because it was really important to the video - but we ran out of money.” At this point, director Phil Harder had an important call to make.

“We blew through the budget on flights and hotels and the renting of that space. I also had my shirt off in the video, which is ironic because of how cold it was,” he says, laughing. “When we arrived to where we were filming, it was negative 25 degrees Fahrenheit…the coldest day of the year. But the experience of making the clip was hectic. The serene video for “Drive” features the members of Incubus playing in a sun-soaked wooden room as animated images of Boyd intermittently flash across the screen.

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