"Immortal Machine" | Dystopian Animated Short Film (2021)
Created by David James Armsby.
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"You think you understand? All the lies? All the needless atrocities?...
No. There is reason, and I want to show you..."
Deep in the heart of Autodale lives their Mayor. As old as the town itself, a once great inventor, now a gangly and decaying but undying thing which the townsfolk have long forgotten, but continue to echo his machine-obsessed beliefs.
This film follows Autodale's Exceptional Woman as she journey's deep down the rabbit hole of the Mayor's Immortal Machine.
This film was one of the most challenging and taxing projects of my life. The film covers a subject matter that is extremely difficult to pull off from an artistic and technical standpoint. Nothing about the setting, characters or structure of this film was easy to do. That's actually the reason I've put off tackling the heart of Autodale and the Matriarch for so long. I knew to pull it off successfully would require a tremendous amount of time, effort and artistic know-how which I didn't feel confident I could do.
It wasn't until after finishing my previous and longest animated short film, "Friendly Shadow", that I finally felt that I was at the skill level required for this gigantic project.
I'm not in love with all of it, but overall I think it definitely succeeded. This film is extremely ambitious and grand and I'm extremely proud of the result. I really hope you guys like it too! :D
Voice Actors:
Adrienne Cox - "Exceptional Woman", "Hive", "The Matriarch".
David Armsby - "The Mayor"
Original Music composed by Rayshaun Thompson and Cameron Moody.
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FULL SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE HERE!:
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MAKING OF
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This is the seventh film in the Autodale Animated Series. Here's the full playlist!:
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PATREON!:
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Всем привет,с вами точно не Дима,но я надеюсь скоро выйдет разбор от него.Как обычно с кучей неожиданных скримеров.
Ugly soup anyone?
3:36 *My dumb ass* : *GrOoT !?*
Maybe in the old world everyone was infected and killed but then the goddess cured all of them and made illusions of "pretty people" and "ugly" and "ugly's" are real people but "prettys" are just illusions, and the guy in feed the freaks was a freak. A person from the old world?
.It was actually sad the goddess meant to protect autodale ended up killing more than she protects.
Incredible
My friend: what’s your favourite show? Me: well..
This looks like the very beginning of how the Matrix was created
I hated how they keep putting her on the hot seat like they are different personalities and she's not allowed to cry or be weak or something..
Yo you guys should drop dead.. I've had enough existential crisises to understand that we all go through this every day but we don't realize it cuz we're so distracted.
This is basically not the truth but it kind of is.. You do this really shows you the fire that exists in reality..
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Wait... 3:12 096?????
I had to search for this! Why isn't KGup recommending this!
Thx for the nightmares!
New netflix series
Oh my God it’s all connected. Mother Nature from Mother of nature and Professor Crown from redone
ok i’ve been watching these for so long now but i feel like high rise investigation was a little bit inspired by this
Will any new colours be used for anything I wonder
Why does this give me coviv 19 vibes 😭
You should make the girl that left Autodale in "Friendly Shadow" come back and help free Autodale's citizens or something like that. That would be awesome. Better yet, you should write a book or a series of novels about this. This is just too good. It is insanely dark and terrifying but I found it beautiful how the shadow helped the little girl escape out of empathy knowing that, had he brought the girl back from the sewers, she would either be experimented on or die. Not to mention her mother would also be taken away and killed because of her suffering state after her husband died. There's also more to the freaks than we thought. They are intelligent, and feel emotion as well. Damn, this is just too awesome!
I thought this came out like 4 months ago
This is a such amazing work of art and I respect you for this
Sir can I make a suggestion? Can you add subtitles so its easier to understand?
Is this the ending? Or only the beginning
And the old man demonstrates the process called "Indoctrination." How you make real monsters, and dress them up. Make them look 'pretty.' And burn down everything else. If you look at Autodale and don't think about the how and why of it, you're... kind of missing the point. Though, honest truth is, it's less painful to miss the point of this series than it is to understand and think about that point. Because this series is reflecting what our world is like at its worst. And no, it ain't pretty. :Irony Strikes:
what happened to the mayor's daughter? did she become one of the torso-machine-ladies? she was cured of the disease, but what happened after? and how did the tree lady become so humanlike? lots of questions and lots of answers.
So, I think I get most of it. Autodale keeps the tree lady alive so she can protect its citizens from the plague. What I don't understand is why they only feed the abnormal ones to her. Why the ugly ones? Is there something about being different that makes you more nutritious?
What I don't understand is, if the plague creates Freaks, and Autodale was created to keep out the plague, then how does Hive not know about the Freaks? does this mean the Freaks are separate from the plague? A form of evolution, maybe, influenced over millenia? After all, they don't explicitly say how long Autodale's been up and running.
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Was the "necessary" worth it? Cause if it isn't, it is better to go gentle into the good night.
Oh so they have to keep killing people to keep the goddess alive??
I like how she’s not scared of this creepy ruler with his guts showing, freaky feet, and some skull mask looking thing
This is so scary that it’s actually entertaining to watch. And to think this might be our society in another millennium..interesting
MORE PLEASE !!
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Nice
Why that machine has a BIG Nipple
Ok ok quick question, how many voices that you have, Mr. Armsby?
"You think you understand? All the lies? All the needless atrocities?...
Is this the end I absolutely loved this and still have a few questions is this the whole story?
Until David Armsby makes more videos, this is the last. Until then, we’ll just have to subsist on his playlist. (Link in the description.)
Is this the end I absolutely loved this and still have a few questions is this the whole story?
The mayor's pupils getting bigger and smaller is such a cool detail
Cyberpunk 1977
I wish this had captions actually- the auto captions are often inaccurate and there were several parts that no matter how much I replayed it I wasn't sure what was being said...
dang this poor world
This channel is really underrated like wow this is some good stuff
I would love to see more on the "Friendly Shadow".
Wow. I just finished the whole story, and I have to say, this is the best animated series on youtube. There are others I totally love, but this really is the best in my opinion. Bravo
This is what I think is happening we destroyed the planet and the goddess is nature so to keep the human race alive they must commit mass murder to keep the goddess alive and humans they must become murderers to stay alive
Somebody do a subtitles, please. Think about deaf people.
Can't wait for the next episode! Masterpiece.
1:03 *C L A P C L A P C L A P*
This doesn’t have enough views, the amount of detail is crazy considering its just one person doing the animation.
It’s like they were ravaged by a nuke
I am now officially scared-
I wonder if this is going to be a thing where we just keep learning more about this town and never come to a conclusion, or will there actually be an ending.
This is definitely one of the best works of yours, that being said please don't stress yourself too much. A short like this made by a one man army is already an achievement on itself. All the work you put in your shorts is stunning, so don't be afraid to ask for help if something's too laborious. Really, amazing work David.
This storyline should be in a game
Awwww shit he said my name!
this reminds me of the movie 9
So, it was Cyberdemons all along. Fantastic Job.
Perfect nightmare fuel
The movie should end at 2:46
Cool video but more detail would have made a huge difference.
dang autodale be looking like damn citadel with the combine and everything
Holy shit, Walter White has come a long way...
3:18 “hey vsauce Micheal here”
Absolutely gorgeous.
i still dont get it
Please make this into a game!!!!
So everything has to be perfect and the people that are called ugly are basically smart and they are said to the goddess so this this blows my mind oh my god this dream from the dream SMP live here ? Also this is perfect This is the most interesting thing that has come out of 2021 for the most part
Idk if this is some kinda series or what but whew this is getting hella interesting
3:30 Remember the film “Mother of Nature”? This “thing” kinda looks like it with the sticks in the shoulder’s and all 3:36 And you can kinda see some horn/ear like things on the head like Mother Nature in the film But it looks like a skull instead- Just a similarity tho
Jesus is coming
In what program do you create your story?
10:36 The leaves floated down, compared to the usual reversed gravity.
2:40 Rule 34 pls
This has a very WH40k vibe with the sacrifices needed to keep humanity alive. Both keep a literal god/goddess alive which in turn protects humanity from Chaos/Disease.
You know, this just feels like abzu, and I loved that game
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The liquid keeping her alive seems to trigger all the sorrow fed from those who gave their limited lives to. She cries out from the injection. Does she know this is a futile solution?
S'il vous plaît faites des sous-titres en français ☹️
I think the best part of this series is there are no "good" or "bad" guys, and no insidious ideology that they are justifying the atrocities in the name of. Rather, the Mayor is choosing the only viable option to prevent the end of human existence itself - he recognizes there are no good choices, that the outside world is too corrupted, diseased, and broken to ever fix. All he can do is continue to sustain what is left of human's miserable existence by creating a reality where individuals can live as happily deluded as possible. But in the end, the Mayor knows that it is all for nought, and even he will succumb to fate.
The best film to date :D
this serie was great
A strong story :O Nice ^^
Can you add a French subtitle please
what happened to the little girl who got healed?
So are all the hive members people who saw through the lies? Or is the middle girl the first to do that and those in the hive are from before the city was finalized? Also, are all hive members female? I saw some that looked male but only heard female voices, especially the duo that are wrapped together.
•No, just the first one was the one to see through it all. •The others were specifically collected by her, assimilated to be a giant think tank. •There are indeed make Hive members (the Friendly Shadow used to be in the Hive), but they all share the Exceptional Woman’s voice.
is...is the mother of nature dead? are there more then one of her? dave said that the world of the great rat and terrible hound and the world of autodale are the same, and in that story, the rat has a sculpture of the mother of nature, so is the mother of nature dead, or did she do this?
@BlackCover95 i posted this literally 2 hours befote David said against it.
“Mother of Nature” is not canon. Proof: kgup.info/get/ZpyLfWW6fnuNZ6U/video
The wailing of the matriarch sends shivers down my spine
so... it's not as black and white as it seems.
“Don’t be happy about your achievements, be happy that you lived to see them.”
The fascinating bit is that the goddess isn't really being kept alive by him to protect the people, the people are being kept alive by him and in a tightly controlled system to use as fuel to try and keep alive the goddess. So they're told lies so at least the ones that haven't been harvested yet are happy, but none of it means anything its all just to hide that they're fuel. Simultaneously the goddess clearly doesn't want this at all and it even causes her pain; she wants to heal them. But she doesn't hate him despite what he's doing and how it hurts her. So complex.
omg its so amazing I've waited so long for the next animation to come out ITS JUST SO AMAZING
Am I the only one drawing a connection between The Withering Goddess and The Mother of Nature?
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