12/16/2023 0 Comments Animatrice![]() A very minimalistic looking segment, pretty much in black, white and a few sparse colours but its really effective with some stunning hand drawn artwork on display. Things go awry when a male she recognises turns up and says he is going back into the matrix and wants her to follow. Program: Again another very simple straight forward short which involves a female undergoing a training simulation session. A very straight forward story which just makes the character a little more interesting when you see him in the film. The effect is eerie and unique but I don't think it suits the material here really. This short has been rendered in a sort of rotoscoping method where it was clearly filmed in live action but then hand drawn animated over the top. He manages to contact 'Neo' via his computer and soon finds himself on the run from agents. Set between The Matrix and Reloaded it simply shows how 'Kid' is a disgruntled teen who believes something is wrong with the world. Kids Story: This is another good segment because it helps us to see how one film character came to be free from the matrix. This second section is a much darker affair and really well executed, probably the best shorts in the collection. Again the segment is hand drawn animation with CGI assistance and again it looks lovely. This is because man has blocked out the sun with a massive dark cloud of nanomachines which cuts off the machines primary source of power. It shows how the robots finally overrun and destroy most of the human defenses, kill off all world leaders and begin their construction of the matrix to gain power from human bodies. The Second Renaissance Part II: Number Three continues on from where the previous segment left off and tells of the gradual descent into all out war between mankind and machines. This is easily one of the most interesting stories as it gives tonnes of info about how it all happened. It looks terrific as a montage of events accompanied by a cold sterile narration, really sets the mood. The segment is traditional hand drawn animation with the odd splatter of CGI assistance which I think is best really. How the robots slowly gain a conscious and one of them kills its owner which leads to a massive rethink in human/robotic relations and inevitably war. Its unoriginal and deals with mankind inventing humanoid robots to serve them but treating them badly. The Second Renaissance: A prequel to the entire trilogy and tells the tale of how mankind ruined what they had and how the machines slowly took over. The bleak dark work of reality looks great of course, the ship looks great and so do the sentinels, its just the human characters, but at least the story is a good one connecting dots to the second film ('Reloaded'). Everything in the segment looks good accept for the human characters if you ask me, there you have that typical plastic vacant look on their faces accompanied by so so lip syncing. ![]() This tale is about the ship Osiris and her crews battle to deliver a warning to 'Zion' whilst being attacked viciously by Sentinels. A collection of nine short stories that gave both more insight into the films plus some individual tales of characters in a world run by the machines.įinal Flight of the Osiris: The first story is in CG animation which I didn't really like in all honesty. With a slightly dodgy title this was I believe the first animated addition to a movie that acted as a sequel and prequel at the same time.
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