DRONE | Animated short film about drones, AI, and live-streaming on YouTube

An AI drone with a conscience that changes everyone. A short animated film about a malfunction at a CIA press event that causes a Predator drone installed with an ethical AI personality to go rogue as it attempts to understand its purpose in the world. #animation #shortfilm ✈ A behind the scenes look at the production of an independent animated short. ↳ ✈ Instagram: ✈ Twitter: ___________________________________________________ Director & Writer Sean Buckelew Producer Jeanette Jeanenne Cast Finn Wittrock Jim True-Frost Shirley Chen Mo Collins Darnell Kirkwood Music & Sound Design Skillbard Backgrounds Wes McClain Concept Painting Alex Murray-Clark Drone UI/HUD Design David Delafuente Storyboards & Lead Animator Sean Buckelew Animator Vincent Tsui Effects Animation Nicole Staffford Additional Animation & Color Kyle Brooks 3D Drone Animation - E.D. Films 3D/2D Animation Consulting Daniel Gies 3D Rigging, Animation, Rendering Eric Max Kaplin Producer E.D. Films Emily Paige Executive Producer E.D. Films Archita Ghosh Orchestration Finn McNicholas Orchestra Budapest Art Orchestra Contractor/session producer Miklos Lukacs Conductor Peter Pejtsik Recording studio East Connection Music Recording, Studio 22 ProTools engineer David Lukacs Recording engineer Gabor Buczko Made with the support of The Berkeley Film Foundation The Guggenheim Foundation The Animation Workshop Thank You Rachel Ho Joe Bennett Chris Sullivan Carl Burton Charles Huettner Draško Ivezić Jelena Popović Marco de Blois Danny Madden Juan Riedinger Najeeb Tarazi Irene Kotlarz Paul Vester Jason Carpenter