Isthmus Crypticus

You must be high son.

Although I do like that line, now that you bring it up. "Chairman Goodchild. Aeon Flux's intelligence index has been re-evaluated. It is way in the red."

If you consider it, an intelligent mind is ultimately the most dangerous tool a person can posses, if properly navigated of course. Not only would it give Aeon, or any other citizen the scope to question the authorities power and right to bear such power, but it's the single agent required to topple any person or institution. Sure there's strength, but if your opponent is always one step ahead of you, you'll never be doing anything but swinging at air.
Not only that, but a fully ready intelligent person can function best under chaos, "when the going get's weird, the weird turn pro," while a regime can't function outside itself. That's why Trevor and Aeon are perfect for order and collision, Trevor’s so introverted and can't function outside of his own grand plans and aspirations, while Aeon is flexible to adapt to an evolving circumstance and a changing environment.
Magneefeek.
What’s the word on Aeon, or Luvula? Anything? ANYTHING?

Say, I was wondering if there was any fanfic for the show. If so I would like to give it a read. See what people could take and develop from the series.

My last finished piece was a 30 second spot for Hong Kong Broadband Network that mixed rotoscoped 2D with 3D backgrounds. Probably the last commercial I do for a while.

I am developing an animated Terminator short, planned as part of an Animatrix-type DVD collection of films.

The Aeon Flux animated project has been in development and will get going once the financing has been arranged. I can't say much more about it than that right now.

Luvula, which has been in development for some time, is still in early stages. I am trying to adapt it to ultimately take form as a full CG feature. I've been taking Maya courses to finally make the transition to CG animation.

At this point, my idea of the ideal animated film has become more and more rigorous as I'm increasingly dissatisfied and disenchanted with recently released productions. It's time for something truly, radically, different. Like when the first Aeon Flux short aired on MTV 15 years ago. I'm not interesting in repeating myself, so forget about whatever expectations there are based on what I've done before.

Oh, and some old fanfic can be found here:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/aeonfluxforum/messages/1

As for the new Aeon episodes, there's a craving for one's like the old, but it'd probably also be pretty disappointing to find the new releases by the same formula. Like a band who follows up your favorite album with one that sounds just like it. Times change. People change. I'm sure whatever comes out will be GOLD!!!
At least until then we’ll have The TERMIFLUXINATER. (From a future past of the present unknown…)

Thanks for the link, by the way.

I dont know any Aeon flux stories there... but the quality level is fairly unstable

I'm drunk

the rest of the post looks fine (well I could've indicated that it was about the fanfiction request and not Isthmus Crypticus... but it wasnt necessary...)

http://student.vfs.com/~patmb/

I am of course excited to see more of your work, whatever avenue you choose, but I hope you do not intend to entirely abandon 2D because I really enjoy your unique style of drawing and movement. I am often irked, but also amused to see many modern animations seem to copy your style such as the sequence from kill bill. I understand that anime is anime, but that looked a lot more like your work than any anime that I've seen.

On the same note, I also noticed this phenomena regarding drew's music. I'm always hearing stuff these days that sounds like his work on Aeon, but it usually turns out not to be him. Although it did in fact turn out to be him that I heard on courage :)

I mostly found reviews of the segment such as this one:

"Technically, there's no mistaking this as "anime", but it will not be immediately stylistically familiar to many viewers. This is because Kill Bill's animation is a product of Production IG, known more for its visual work rather than for its plotting and storytelling. THEM reviewer Jason Bustard describes it as "an art house that happens to produce anime" which is a fair assessment. So much of the look of this segment feels sketchy and experimental, closer to The Animatrix than mainstream anime. "

http://www.themanime.org/viewreview.php?id=677

But besides KB, there have been other times where I found myself wondering if "the guy who made Aeon flux" had been involved. There used to be an american cartoon called "gollums" or something like that. About these stone statues that would come to life and fight off monsters and badguys and such. I remember that after the first time I saw it, I would always watch it more closely whenever I could catch it and try to figure out if it was in fact the Aeon flux guy.

I doubt anyone would have the balls to outright copy his more unique and obviously personal touches, but I really swear that I see more stuff that resembles Aeon now than I ever did previous to the series. But mabey it's more a product of the expanded popularity of anime than Aeon Flux specifically.

Tiger Mask was my favorite Japanese animated show while growing up. It was on around 1970-72.

Definitely was a big influence on my drawing style. I've cited it often in interviews. Now thanks to youtube, you can see what I was talking about. The stories were great too-- lots of moral ambiguity throughout.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article?article_id=2465

http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles.asp?n_id=4409

http://animeclick.nipogames.com/anime_eng.php?titolo=Tiger+Mask

You can definately see similarities to Peters work.
Apparently the live pro-wrestler is actually based on the cartoon.

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