MAKE Originals Releases Latest Micro-Short Series: Dead Moon Walking
By Egotist / /
The nine-piece micro short series takes place in space, where everything is hostile, kills you instantly, or doesn’t care about your existence
MAKE Originals is excited to announce new episodes of the micro-short series Dead Moon Walking. The original series was completed back in 2012, consisting of five episodes. “With the launch of MAKE Originals, we decided to re-release the original episodes and follow them up with a handful of new episodes.” Danny Robashkin – Creative Director
The series follows two astronauts, Orion and Leo, as they experience hapless misadventures, space oddities and miscarriages in lunar judgment—or maybe they are just unlucky. The series was all traditionally animated by hand. From early animatics to finished designs. “All ideations were taken into consideration for balancing the cute and genuine optimism of Orion and Leo, with their morbidly unlucky incompetence and the gruesome realities of space travel.” Danny Robashkin
“We pieced Dead Moon together under the notion of wanting to create animated pieces that felt like comic strips. We started to pitch stories that fit in a bite-sized 15-second format. Chang Dai (lead designer) first pitched Comet and had the whole team rolling on the floor. After that, we picked the ideas that made us laugh the hardest.” Alec Soelle – Lead Designer
He continues, “As we developed the series, we realized that this was about two characters, facing death and personal injury while doing mundane and simple things in space. The Darwin Awards were popular at this time; where people get awarded for the dumbest ways to die and take their own stupidity out of the gene pool. Also, a popular video called “Dumb Ways to Die” came out. While these weren’t a direct influence, this kind of thing was prevalent across the internet at the time we were in production.”
Known primarily for their commercial work, MAKE, announced earlier this year, their 6-piece slate of animated short series as part of their MAKE Originals effort. Mechsplorers being the first, led by Aaron Dabelow and Andrew Chesworth, follows The Robotsons family, the most scientific scientists of Earth who are sent to explore a verdant earth-like planet for new technologies, and unravel the mysterious origins of these so-called Mechs.
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