Friday, September 28, 2012

Steel Tears

Truth is, I'm a sci-fi geek at heart, and toss me a sci-fi film complete with a touching, almost cliche story but top it with stellar special effects (using completely open sourced software programs to do so mind you) and you'll have me hooked. I stumbled across this pretty cool sci-fi short today, and fell in love with it right away. I fell so in love with it, I'm gonna share it on here.

Steel Tears was made using Blender, which is very similar to Maya. It's a complete open sourced project experiment in regards to programming, however, for shooting funds (ie practical funds) were provided through the Blender Institute and pre-dvd sales. But basically, the budget for the project was $0.

We start out seeing a spaceship taking off. Then,viewers are introduced to a couple, Doug and Celia standing on a bridge in slightly futuristic Amsterdam. They're in a fight, and while their fight almost seems petty, they both have different dreams.

"Look Celia, we have to follow our passions. You have your robots and I just want to be awesome in space!" -Doug 

But it comes down to Doug telling Celia that her robotic arm is scary.  *There is horrible acting employed in this scene, for your warning.

Now we jump forward to 40 years in the future, when robots have taken over and mankind seems at a severe loss for...well anything. A group of scientists are hiding away using computer technology to reconstruct the sequence of Celia and Doug on the bridge in the past. Doug of the future is using the simulation to send him back to the past to make things right with Celia, because Celia was the one who created the robots that are destroying mankind.

"You broke my heart. You forgot me on earth..." -Celia



There's some pretty cool discussion topics that I think this movie can spark. Anyway, watch and -hopefully- enjoy!


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