LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS (2019)Created by Tim MillerThis project, "Love, Death & Robots" is an anthology comprising 18 short adult animated films, encompassing a variety of styles and themes largely in the science fiction and horror genres. After seeing the trailer I was really looking forward to this. The project is from "Deadpool"'s Tim Miller and Executive Producer David Fincher (he was at one time attached to a "Heavy Metal" project, wasn't he? This feels like it has evolved from that idea). I love anthologies, and I initially thought this would be a movie, like "The ABCs of Death", but it's presented as a series of 7 to 15 min episodes. I binged this on Saturday and enjoyed it a lot.It reminded me in some ways of "The Animatrix", an anthology of "The Matrix" universe shorts. While that was primarily from Japanese creators, this is from US and European artists. Tim Miller's own Blur Studio has made a couple of the shorts.I enjoyed the stories and the visual styles. Some of the episodes have such photorealistic animation, with stunning detail (human faces though, still have that "uncanny valley" effect). It reminded me of Animatrix's "Final Flight of the Osiris". If there's one criticism I had, it's that they didn't push the boundaries as much as they could have, what with the promotions calling it an NSFW work. While the episodes do have violence, swearing and nudity, it isn't anything more than what you'd find a similar 18+ audience specific Netflix show. Some of the episodes are predictable and feel familiar, but all are interesting to watch. Overall, science fiction fans would definitely want to check it out.This sketch is of the lead character from the segment "The Witness". This episode is set in Hong Kong. For the past few years, I've been following several Instagrammers who post pictures from there. So, though I've never been to HK, the buildings seemed familiar to me!This sketch was done with two Bic multi colour ballpoint pens, one with the standard red, blue, green, black colours, the other with purple, light blue, pink and lime green. It was drawn on an A6 @Brustro sketchbook and scanned.#428 / 20-Mar-19
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