tlim011

video link: https://vimeo.com/153780982

Genre: Sci-fi

Technique: 3D Animation

Length: 5-8mins

Teamwork: Currently solo (hope can find a team)

Synopsis:

Background story– In year 2100, earth become severely polluted due to the selfishness of human. People left the surface of the earth and moved onto cities in the sky. Not all people can move to the sky cities, only those rich and reputable, some poor people were brought along as slave,  some unlucky one were left behind.

A century later, the earth become lively again due to the lack of human. People in the sky cities ran out of resources. They built giant devices and plugged onto the surfaces of the earth to harvest any minerals, water and nutrients, leading the recovering earth become a wasteland once again.

The story happens in 50 years later after the harvesting devices were plugged onto the earth.

Scene 1 –

Year 2252- A far view from the telescope of a giant device on the deserted land. Kirby, the hunter is marking his next target from his telescope on the top of his outpost, the lighthouse. He put down his telescope and reaches to his pocket. He takes out and glances  at a torned old photo, the photo of him and his buddy. He remains silence. He takes his weapon and equipment and comes out from the light house, jumps onto his hover bike and heading towards the giant device beyond the horizon.

Scene 2 –

A propaganda is broadcasted on an old tv, advertising “U work hard and long enough, u will gain a chance to live in  the paradise city”. A robot, the mechanic codename “M22” sits in front of the tv, watching the broadcast repeatedly. Suddenly a siren is on, the robot runs to the control panel and turns it off. A giant device is mulfunctioned, the robot grabs the toolbox and heading out from his metal hut to fix it.

Scene 3 –

The robot M22 reaches the mulfunction device, scanning and analyzing the damaged part. He finds an arrow that caused the damage. Robot M22 pulls the arrow out and analyzes it. At this moment, Kirby jumps out from behind and aims his bow and arrow toward robot M22. M22 feels frightened and raises up his hands. Kirby and M22 stare at each other for a moment. Kirby put down his bow and ask M22 to leave. M22 slowly steps backward and accidentally triggers the emergency button on the mulfunctioned device as he bumps onto it. A platform rises from undeneath the ground. A sentry bot, “Sentinel 89” is activated. The sentry bot attacks Kirby and M22. Kirby evades the attack and runs to his hover bike. M22 grabs the back of the bike at the moment Kirby rides away.

Scene 4 –

Chase sequence of the Sentry bot, Kirby and M22. Kirby shots the sentry bot and they sucessfully  escape.

Scene 5 –

Kirby goes back to his outpost, the lighthouse followed by M22. M22 finds out that there is another giant device not far away from the lighthouse. It was destroyed. There are lots of greeneries, flowers and plants everywhere neary by the device. He explores around and finds a destroyed sentry bot. The sentry bot was stabed in the head and underneath his giant arm is a human skeleton. M22 connects and acesses the memory of the destroyed sentry bot. He scans through the memory and finds out that the skeleton is the “buddy” of Kirby, killed in action as they attempted to destroyed the giant device. M22 sends an electrical charge through the connection, and raised the arm of the destroyed sentry bot. Kirby kneels beside the skeleton, sobbing. This is the first time M22 feels the pain.

Scene 6 – Ending

M22 and Kirby both stand in front of newly built tombstone. They remian silence. Kirby turns back and walks away, M22 follows behind. (After this scene will cut into the ending credits. After that, a scene shows that an arrow penetrates and damages the device, then cut to close up shot of a sentry bot as its eyes/sensors light up.) The end.