A desktop animated film depicting a Y2K apocalypse as the result of binary code and monopoly capitalism.
•Installation• Animation Direction • Concept Development • 3D Modeling• 2D + 3D Animation
The illustrations that inspired the animation
RIP 9-5 - Dead of the Workaholic,
Digital painting, 2020
Mural - Timeless Painting,
Digital painting, 2020
The project is inspired by the forest fire near Denver, Colorado, a visceral experience that felt like the end of the world and inspired the drawing 'Mural - Timeless Painting.' In the following week, I created 'RIP 9-5 - Death of the Workaholic,' based on an experience I had before the lockdown when I witnessed a person dying in front of me from overwork. Fast-forward to 2021, I was in New York during a heatwave with no air conditioning, and I had to complete a project within six weeks after recovering from Covid. I needed to create something quickly for the critique, so I decided to make a film based on those two drawings. Using a dramatic fall structure, I depicted an apocalypse inside a computer due to the Y2K bug. I infused the film with the anxiety of Y2K and my own end-of-the-world fears, exacerbated by the heatwave and our monopolistic capitalist society, while simultaneously using Microsoft icons to structure the narrative.
