Films & series/Animated series
Latent Space
Four friends in a room, in the world, or in their heads. Every episode is a story, never an essay.
The story behind it
The main character is a version of me: curious, over-thinking, creative, quietly searching for meaning. The three friends around him are mirrors. Each one exposes a different face of the question at the centre of that episode.
The world is ours, slightly bent. Physics behaves. Attention, time, thought and perception do not behave like we pretend they do. The series visualises that gap.
Process
- 01
The bible
Every episode is self-contained, returns the audience somewhere new, and the idea has to be load-bearing. Remove it and the episode collapses. The room is sacred: most episodes begin or end in one.
- 02
Cast as one hand
A locked character-sheet prompt template so all four read as the same hand: 2.5D, aggressive thick black strokes on folds and features, textured screentone shading, painterly fills.
- 03
Episode shape
Cold open on mood, not idea. The question. The descent, where visuals escalate. The return to the room. The last frame lands the feeling, not the moral.
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