Dolby got involved with the "Gate to the Mind's Eye" video after meeting the director at a screening of the series' last installment . He had always been a fan of artists working in the field of computer animation, and felt that it was possible to tell a story with just images, music, and sound without dialogue.

"I felt that the tempo of the one that I saw was very MTV," says Dolby on his approach to the project. "The pace was really like watching a series of videos. I felt that it needed room to breath, and some of the best material we had was long and drawn out."