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Vorlage:Infobox television Murder Drones is an Australian computer-animated science fiction comedy-horror web series created by American animator Liam Vickers, produced by Glitch Productions and funded by Screen Australia.[1]
As of March 29th, 2022, the Pilot episode has gathered over 7,000,000 views.
Summary
The human species were wiped out after a explosion that was caused by a core meltdown. After this explosion, robots, or 'Worker Drones' took over, making a civilization similar to the human civilization prior. Their parent company, JC Jenson in SPAAAACE!!!!, a spoof of SC Johnson, does not like 'runaway AI', so they created different robots, which are Murder/Dissembly Drones, to kill the other worker drones. Uzi, a edgy teen worker drone, makes a railgun to try and stop the Murder Drones from destroying more of their underground civilization. She then attempts to get out of the underground to try to stop a murder drone, but she is stopped by her father a door worker for the underground civilization, who asks where she is going. She attempts to pass using an excuse, but is caught. Afterward, she needs to measure the hydraulics for Door #1 for her school project. Her father lets her pass and gives her a wrench, explaining how the wrench was used to do 2 things. After searching for some time, she finds a Murder Drone. It stabs her hand with nanite acid. After shooting the murder drone with the railgun, the murder drone reforms its head while displaying an error. Uzi grabs an arm on the ground from a dead worker drone and slaps the murder drone. After that the murder drone then tells Uzi that they are Serial Designation N, a murder drone sent by JC Jenson.
Cast
- Uzi (voiced by Elsie Lovelock) is the main protagonist of the series and a rebellious teenage worker drone who plans to start a rebellion against the humans.
- Serial Designation N (voiced by Michael Kovach) is the deuteragonist of the series who's a Murder Drone who befriends Uzi after being sent to destroy her and tries his best not to be useless. He also has a crush on Serial Designation V.
- Serial Designation V (voiced by Nola Klop) is a sadistic and impulsive Murder Drone who N has a secret crush on her.
- Serial Designation J (voiced by Shara Kirby) is a Murder Drone and the opening antagonist, who is "the leader", described as a "lethal workaholic".
- Khan (voiced by David J. Dixon) is a worker drone and Uzi's borderline abusive father who's described as a "man with a plan".
- Thad (voiced by Sean Chiplock) is a worker drone with the behavior of a high-school jock.
Episodes
Production
Liam Vickers had previously achieved notoriety for the 2D animated series CliffSide and Internecion Cube, both of which are unfinished. When he was picked up by Glitch Productions to be a showrunner, he had no experience in 3D animation, so the company would train him. This series was inspired from 20th Century Studios film franchise, Vorlage:W created by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett and would be created in Unreal Engine but unlike Meta Runner and Sunset Paradise, the show will last 8 episodes,(aww man im sorry you fans and simps) including the pilot, and pushes into darker territory while making it more photorealistic than their previous works.[2]
On August 6th, Liam released the full version of "Disassembly Required", the song that plays in the teaser. The video description reveals the character seen in the teaser to be "V", one of the titular Murder Drones. By the time the series was announced, it had been worked on for one year til February 18th, 2022 when Glitch Productions announced the full series is in development now at the studio and will be released later next year.