Rise Against — Ricochet
Album Visualizers
Loma Vista Recordings
Services
Content Production
Art Direction
Motion Design
VFX
Summary
Two striking marble-metaphor visualizers for Rise Against’s 2025 album Ricochet, exploring themes of community, leadership, fame, and artistic pressure.

Role
Using powerful marble imagery, these visualizers—Nod and Prizefighter—translate the emotional gravity of Ricochet into kinetic visuals. Nod creates a sense of collective movement and encouragement, while Prizefighter channels the more personal turbulence of fame and audience expectation. Together, they form a cohesive visual narrative that reflects the album’s album-wide themes of interconnected impact, resilience, and the weight of presence.
Nod: Visualizer
Gathering Strength in Unity
A leadership-focused visualizer that uses marbles as a metaphor for hope and collective resilience. Marbles roll and converge, signaling the quiet gravity of leadership that draws people together. Nod embodies how small acts of connection—like a nod—can cascade into broader movements of support.


Prizefighter: Visualizer
Gathering Strength in Unity
Prizefighter shifts the tone inward. It portrays the marble metaphor amid the glitter and burden of stardom—the expectation as a trophy and the weight it carries. It’s an exploration of how visibility can feel both triumphant and precarious, and how artists navigate the line between giving fans what they want and preserving personal sanity.


The Result
Mixed Media in Motion
Across both visualizers, marbles are treated less as objects and more as protagonists—anthropomorphized agents moving through abstract environments. Combining mixed-media techniques with physical texture, each piece blurs the line between the mechanical and the emotional. The result is a chain reaction: marbles colliding, gathering, and scattering in ways that mirror the album’s themes of unity, pressure, and the unpredictable ripple of human connection.
Credits
Anthony Ciannamea
Direction / Content Design / Motion Production
Adam Ferrell
Creative Director (Loma Vista Recordings)
Sage LaMonica
Art Director / Designer (Loma Vista Recordings)