After Dark Machine comes another stop-motion animated short film from Varun, called The Cybertech Incident!

Varun mailed the video to me last night, and I must say, it is awesome!  I like this one better than Dark Machine, as this one is in colour and is more stylish.

Another interesting fact about The Cybertech Incident is that it is adapted from one of my drawings!  Yes, about a year back I had an idea for a story that combined cyberpunk elements with horror, which never actually materialised into anything, save for two drawings.  Both are quick throwaway ones where I added some random cyberpunk-inspired cool-sounding text.  Varun took this and expanded the concept into a very nice video.  The film is a minute and a half long, and depicts a cyborg battling demons at the Cybertech System Core, before his inevitable self-destruction.

So here are a set of links to The Cybertech Incident and related material:

• Varun's blog post has a description of the film as well as a download link (go ahead, the file's only 7.5 MB in size), and an embedded video courtesy YouTube, as well as some behind-the-scenes information!
• The Cybertech Incident, at YouTube.
• Dark Machine, at YouTube.
• The Cybertech Incident — Trenchcoat, my drawing that inspired the video.
• The Cybertech Incident — Face, the second drawing based on this concept (which I like better than the earlier one).
• My recent comic, Smoke, also has a reference to the "Cybertech Industries", which means it is set in the same universe, and obviously, I hope to come up with more stories with this setting.

Varun did the video during holidays.  Just goes to show what creative stuff can be done when not hampered by the mundane parts of life...