Sci-Fi Animated Short About a Robot Revolution: Seniors 3000

After a mishap in her office nice new printerYour aging pencil pusher Marlène is called from your smarmy young boss. Perhaps, he suggests, if she can’t evolve with technology, she should retire from work altogether. As science fiction short Seniors 3000 disclosedthere is another, much wilder one Away!

Shared by Just before the weekJulien David’s 16-minute charmer uses both 2D and 3D animation to weave a fantastical story that explores some real-world issues, including ageism, the generation gap, corporate greed, And The Solitude of an empty nest. On the real World, Seniors 3000 also imagines what could happen if elderly people Embraced high-tech evolution a little too much – and who could stand ready to greedily exploit it before moving on to one of equal value vulnerable, much younger group of people.

This story for sure greatly escalated! Like, to apocalyptic levels! Two great insights from Marlène’s story: nNever underestimate the power of organization, even when it’s being carried out a group of human-Robot hybrid developed for maximum specific purposes– and beware any manager guy who still is Speckle as a way to underline his sentences.

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