The Machine

"The Machine" is an animated fable following the path of an innocently
forged mechanical creature. As his independence and knowledge of the
world grows on his journey, as does his desire to conquer all that we
encounters, from the pastures of a farmer to the realm of man's entire
world.

The story is in itself a mechanized apparition, the characters and
scenery exisiting inside of an early 20th century nickel arcade and
being driven forward by the gears of this machine.

The main character, the innocently created, human like mechanism whose
power knows no bounds, thinks of himself as invincible, that no man or
spirit could ever overpower him. Yet, the irony is that he himself is
only a small part of a greater device, and in this case, a mechanized
stage for passers by to waste a nickel in.

This film was shot over many hours at Bent Image Lab over the course of
several months in 2008-2009. Animated using stop-motion puppets and
sets, then composited together in After Effects, the film has a mixed
media presence to it that is accentuated by the machine's own collage
like form.

CREDITS:
Film by Rob Shaw

Narrator
Andrea Schuch

Voice recorded by
Angela Poschet

Animators
Rob Shaw
Sarah Hulin

Sound Design
Brian Kinkley

Music
Sirrobrob

Color Correction
Orland Nutt

Additional effects
Fred Ruff

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

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• Machine
• Bent
• Image
• Lab
• Chicago
• love
• sex
• drugs
• god
• hate
• animated
• fable
• control
• AI

[WarningAnarchy]

this is incredible.

[giedzz]

It's so awesome

And what song did you use :)?

[CubeableGame]

Amazing movie, though the narration could be better!

[Ubiquidade]

Fantastic work!