The films will be released on Oats’ YouTube channel. Both films hint what the future might hold for the Adam universe. The third episode, The Prophet, reveals an opposing tribe of survivors, this one human and heavily armed. Second installment The Mirror finds our amnesiac hero on a deadly trek from the walled city to a refugee outpost, where he will discover a clue to his identity. “I was interested in directing several pieces on the story setup in the first Adam episode, the thematic backbone of it is a discussion of where your soul is,” explains Neill Blomkamp. When the hero is expelled from a walled city with a crowd of his fellow prisoners, the newborn cyborg realizes he is exiled in a post-apocalyptic world. Here’s what it has to say about the setting:Īdam tells the story of a human whose brain has been erased and imprisoned in a robotic shell. We highly recommend visiting that site if you’re at all interested in the technical side of computer-generated effects, as it goes into great detail on the creation of the ADAM series. More details about the series can be found at the Unity website, which seems to be partnering with Oats to showcase this new rendering technology. It’s the follow-up to a previous film, ADAM: Chapter 1, which showed the android’s initial awakening and expulsion, while also being a test of the advanced CGI made possible through the so-called “Unity” engine. We’ve written extensively about Oats in the past, calling the first three films, Firebase, Rakka and Zygote an “amazing exploration of the boundaries of horror, gore and sci-fi.” Now we’ve got ADAM: The Mirror, which keeps the creative spark burning while hinting at more sci-fi filmmaking to come.ĪDAM: The Mirror tells the story of a nameless android who appears to be the mind of a human, trapped in the body of a robot, cast out from a walled city or prison and sent into the wastes along with others like him. Perhaps one day we'll see a video game based on it.Oats Studios, the freeform, experimental, independent film studio created by director Neill Blomkamp, has returned with a new short film after having seemingly wrapped up the “Volume 1” part of its project. The next episode of Adam is due out soon. He directed a trilogy of live-action short films in 2007 to promote the release of Halo 3, and was once set to direct the Halo feature film before the project was scrapped. Unity, it seems, is capable of some quite wonderful graphical effects.īlomkamp, of course, is no stranger to the world of video games. The battered sci-fi Blomkamp is known for is present and correct, and of course there are plenty of highly-detailed robots. While the setup is intriguing, it's the look of the film that's most impressive. In it, the amnesiac hero discovers a clue about what and who he is. The video below is Adam: The Mirror, which was made in real-time using Unity. District 9 director Neill Blomkamp wrote and directed a short film using the Unity game engine and it's super cool.īlomkamp, alongside Oats Studios, created the second video in the Adam story (the first is here), which was designed to show off graphical advances made with the popular game engine.
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