A few years back an unknown digital artist by the name of Shane Acker made this short film.
Tim Burton saw it and thought it had promise. He offered to back Shane for a full length movie. That movie came out in theaters a few weeks back. I saw it with Yummy this weekend.
The full length movie has much the same story as the short but expanded. The main character, 9, wakes up to find a world where everyone is dead except for the machines. There's not many of them left either. 9 meets some of the others who promptly start getting killed off by a machine that eats their souls. He must convince them to stop hiding and lead an attack on the machines before they're wiped out completely.
Naturally, there's more to it than that. I just don't want to give too much away.
You get to find out where these creatures came from and what happened to the world to get it to this point.
The machines are steampunk-like creations. They're what you'd get if you tried to create modern civilization using World War I era technology.
I will definitely be getting this on DVD when it comes out.
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