Inside The Animation for “Love Death + Robots”
Netflix has since unleashed a slew of BTS/behind-the-scenes making-of featurettes for their animated anthology series "LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS" - which I highly recommend for your viewing considerations (*Watch on Netflix), featuring a line-up of 18 stand-alone episodes/short films (no longer than 20-minute each story), none of whom are connected to each other in terms of storylines (*Which seems to be THE way of world-building these days), and wholly watchable independent of each other.
This Season is very aptly rated "R21" (In Singapore), and certainly does feature nudity/sexual happenings, although not necessarily in ALL episodes, but the general commentary (at least on my social media feeds) are that folks could do without them, but I differ in opinion. Folks familiar with the "Heavy Metal" anthology from the past, would be more than familiar with what the stories entail, IMHO.
As saucy and mildly salacious as the naughty-bits were (*More straight-up with a S&M-twist rather than anything resembling "hentai"), the primary focus of the select genres certainly feed a specific appetite for the collective geekdom of the kidult (excluding the "super-hero" trope), with a heavy-twitch for video games hyper-visuals, and the cel-art of nostalgia whispered during growing up, methinks. The result is glorious, but not necessarily "life-altering", except for the fact that a project such as THIS has been presented to the self-restricted masses, and if you have not read the multiple warnings by now: This is to your saturday morning cartoons of youth.
Like I said: GLORIOUS.
The series is "presented by Tim Miller and David Fincher", which provides the name recognition and a somewhat expectation of the proceedings, for which I myself am satisfied with. Tim Miller is featured in video interview above.
I am hoping to further delve into select individual episodes in time ... but in case my "plan" falters, here are the "Inside The Animation" videos to check out;
EP#1: "Sonnie's Edge" (17 minutes)
DIRECTED BY: Dave Wilson
ANIMATION STUDIO: Blur Studio
WARNING: Mature Language, (Partial) Nudity, Sexual Suggestion, Violence
WHAT: "A woman named Sonnie remotely controls a genetically-engineered monster in underground gladiatorial battles. A rich man offers her a lot of money to lose, but she refuses. After she wins the combat, he comes back to make her pay, only to discover he got things very wrong."
EP#2: "Three Robots" (12 minutes)
DIRECTED BY: Victor Maldonado & Alfredo Torres
ANIMATION STUDIO: Blow Studio
WARNING: Mature Language
WHAT: "After the destruction of humanity, three robots wander through a seemingly abandoned city, trying to understand how humans lived based on their limited knowledge of them and the things they left behind. The surprise comes when they meet a cat."
EP#3: "The Witness" (12 minutes)
DIRECTED BY: Alberto Mielgo
ANIMATION STUDIO: Pinkman.TV
WARNING: Sexual Activity, Sexual Suggestion, Nudity.
WHAT: "A woman witnesses a murder in a building in front of the hotel where she is staying. Cat-and-mouse game begins when she comes eye to eye with the murderer."
EP#4: "Suits" (17 minutes)
DIRECTED BY: Franck Balson
ANIMATION STUDIO: Blur Studio
WARNING: Mature Language
WHAT: "A small community of farmers pilot mech suits to defend their land from an invading swarm of insectoid aliens."
EP#5: "Sucker of Souls" (13 minutes)
DIRECTED BY: Owen Sullivan
ANIMATION STUDIO: Studio La Cachette
WARNING: Violence, Gore, Mature Language
WHAT: "Awakened by an archaeological excavation, a bloodthirsty demon fights a crew of mercenaries."
EP#7: "Beyond the Aquila Rift" (17 minutes)
DIRECTED BY: Léon Bérelle, Dominique Boidin, Rémi Kozyra, Maxime Luère
ANIMATION STUDIO: Unit Image
WARNING: Mature Language, Sexual Depiction, Nudity, Horror,
WHAT: "Blue Goose's crew—Thom, Suzy, and Ray—are on a mission to reach beyond the Aquila Rift, but an error in the routing plot causes unexpected events to happen."
EP#8: "Good Hunting" (17 minutes)
DIRECTED BY: Oliver Thomas
ANIMATION STUDIO: Red Dog Culture House
WARNING: Sexual Suggestion, (Partial) Nudity.
WHAT: "In early 20th century China, a boy becomes friends with a shape-shifting huli jing after his father kills the huli jing's mother. Years later, living in a steampunk Hong-Kong, they find each other again."
EP#9: "The Dump" (10 minutes)
DIRECTED BY: Javier Recio Gracia
ANIMATION STUDIO: Able & Baker
WARNING: Mature Language, Male Nudity
WHAT: "A city inspector tries to convince Ugly Dave to move out of his house which is located in a dump. However, Dave and his pet are not intent on doing so."
EP#10: "Shape-Shifters" (16 minutes)
DIRECTED BY: Gabriele Pennacchioli
ANIMATION STUDIO: Blur Studio
WARNING: Mature language, male nudity, gore and violence.
WHAT: "Two close friends in the US Marines with supernatural powers have to fight one of their own in Afghanistan."
EP#11: "Helping Hand" (10 minutes)
DIRECTED BY: Jon Yeo
ANIMATION STUDIO: Axis Studios
WARNING: Mature language, Mild gore.
WHAT: "An astronaut faces a life or death situation after an accident while spacewalking in orbit."
EP#12: "Fish Night" (10 minutes)
DIRECTED BY: Damian Nenow
ANIMATION STUDIO: Platige Image Studio
WARNING: None (that I remembered... "partial male nudity" perhaps?)
WHAT: "Two salesmen get stuck in the desert, and discover that the desert is not what it seems at night."
EP#13: "Lucky 13" (14 minutes)
DIRECTED BY: Jerome Chen
ANIMATION STUDIO: Sony Pictures Imageworks
WARNING: (Mild) Mature language
WHAT: "A pilot recalls her missions aboard the dropship Lucky 13, which had already lost two crews before."
EP#14: "Zima Blue" (10 minutes)
DIRECTED BY: Robert Valley
ANIMATION STUDIO: Passion Animation Studios
WARNING: None (that I remembered).
WHAT: "A reclusive artist gives a final interview after 100 years."
EP#15: "Blindspot" (8 minutes)
DIRECTED BY: Vitaliy Shushko
ANIMATION STUDIO: Elena Volk
WARNING: Mature language.
WHAT: "A cyborg crew attempts to rob a convoy."
EP#16: "Ice Age" (10 minutes)
DIRECTED BY: Tim Miller
ANIMATION STUDIO: Digic Pictures / Blur Studio / Atomic Fiction
WARNING: None.
WHAT: "A couple who just moved into the apartment finds a civilization inside an antique refrigerator."
REMARK: This is the only episode which featured "live" actors, namely Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Topher Grace.
EP#18: "Secret War" (16 minutes)
DIRECTED BY: István Zorkóczy
ANIMATION STUDIO: Digic Pictures
WARNING: Plenty of Gore, Violence, Horror and Mature Language.
WHAT: "A platoon of Red Army soldiers hunt down demons in the forests of Siberia."
Directors Victor Maldonado & Alfredo Torres helmed two episodes in Season 1, with EP#6: "When the Yogurt Took Over" (6 minutes), and EP#17: "Alternate Histories" (7 minutes). This is their "Inside The Animation" featurette:
EP#6: "When the Yogurt Took Over" (6 minutes)
DIRECTED BY: Victor Maldonado & Alfredo Torres
ANIMATION STUDIO: Blow Studio
WARNING: None (I can remember tho ... :p).
WHAT: "Yogurt developed by scientists becomes sentient and takes over the world."
EP#17: "Alternate Histories" (7 minutes)
DIRECTED BY: Victor Maldonado & Alfredo Torres
ANIMATION STUDIO: Sun Creature Studio
WARNING: Plenty of animated gore and blood lol
WHAT: "Multiversity, an alternative history research simulation app, shows the viewer the death of Adolf Hitler in six different timelines on their welcome demo."
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