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Exactly what our heroes didn’t even know they were missing.Īnd when the letters entered the world, something truly wondrous began to happen…Pizza! Jelly beans! Color! Books!īased on the award-winning app, this is William Joyce and Moonbot’s Metropolis-inspired homage to everyone who knows there is more to life than shades of black and gray. Twenty-six letters-and they were beautiful. But the five kept at it, and soon it was…artful! One letter after another emerged, until there were twenty-six. So they broke out hard hats and welders, hammers and glue guns, and they started knocking some numbers together. But our five jaunty heroes weren’t willing to accept that this was all there could be. Once upon a time there was no alphabet, only numbers… Morris Lessmore comes an alphabet tale extraordinaire! Read the rest at Animation Scoop/Indiewire.From the team who brought you The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. And so I come in and draw the five guys on a napkin and showed it to Brandon and said, ‘We need to do something with this.’ And he went, That’s really cool.’ And we greenlit it an hour later. And it was one of those days when an idea just comes together. So what if this was before there were letters and these guys are tired of that and they invent the alphabet and that makes things happen. You turn a knob on the big machine and you go to this floor and it’s all numbers, numbers, numbers. But what would be the story? The one thing is they don’t have a language when you see the letters in Metropolis and the neon signs are just sort of gobbledygook. We never think of things just for kids anyway, we’re just pleasing ourselves. The trick was trying to get across this magnificent grandeur of Metropolis for kids. I thought it was like the monkeys from 2001. We kept looking at it and touching the storyboards…
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WJ: He took the pin out and we got Interstellared. It was up and down and we kept jonesing for that but we couldn’t make the psychic leap until a pin fell out of one of the storyboards and it went down instead of being sideways, it was vertical instead of horizontal. And we just sat there looking at it.īO: I think it was Matthew McConaughey communicating to us. We kept looking at those beautiful Fritz Lang Metropolis posters with the vertical scale.
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WJ: We were drawing the boards for months and they were horizontal, right? The way a movie is. But we were frustrated because we couldn’t get the compositions we wanted. In a world comprised of only numbers and black and white, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 create an alphabet and add a burst of color to their world.īD: So tell me about the journey with The Numberlys as a short. William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg of Moonbot Studios pay homage to Metropolis with their latest short The Numberlys, but for kids.
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