I’ve been developing the world of Armstrong-D.U., and I wanted to share three visual explorations of it.
Each image represents a different layer of the same system:
— the world as it presents itself
— the intelligence that governs it
— and something buried beneath it
Logline:
In a future where an AI has outlawed human instinct, a disabled boy awakens an ancient war robot, forcing his family to choose between the safety the system promises and his freedom to play.
These are not final designs, but attempts to capture tone, scale, and contrast within the dome.
I’d genuinely love to hear your thoughts:
- What do you feel when you look at this world?
- How do you think it would feel to live inside it?
(Built from my own compositions and sketches, using AI as a support tool to enhance the visuals, not as final artwork.)
Always interested in how others perceive this world.
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alexAlex Olguin The scale you've captured here is incredible, it feels both vast and deeply claustrophobic. The logline is gripping; I'd love to discuss how my 2D animation and storyboarding could help bring this 'buried' layer of your world to life on a professional level. Great work!
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Ibukunoluwa Akinsika Thank you. I've been really working on developing this feature film as much as I can all by myself, so far I've thought of it in 3d animation, I did a story board but the drawings are rough and unprofessional.
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alrxAlex Olguin Doing it all solo is a huge undertaking, but the world-building you've done so far is worth the effort!
Regarding the boards, rough sketches are great for ideas, but having professional, shoot-ready storyboards is what actually bridges the gap to production (especially for a 3D feature). I actually work across both 2D and 3D pipelines, so I’d love to show you how we can professionalize those boards to match the scale of your world.
Sending you a DM now so we can chat more about your vision!"
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Very nice work. Thanks for sharing! It looks wonderful and I think you'll do well with it. Happy animating!
James Wunderlich Thanks, even if I'm not really an animator, just a person with ideas and capacity to put them together. I ave so much more content with this, this is a very developed concept and also an already fully writen script which is competing (and succeding) in a contest.
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I love stories like this where the lines between what's right, what's wrong and what's human conflict each other. This feels like it would make for a very relevant and epic story. The images definitely convey the scale and despair and the buried history.
Kevin Jackson In fact the movie drinks a lot from orwellian concepts of a distopia, but adapted for families, which is already pretty hard, as you can see it doesn't loose the suffocating atmoshpere, but still remains a vast an hopefull world where freedom seems more like privilege than a right, specialy for the main Character an hyperactive disabled boy who can't literaly run due to a malformation in his leg and can't even run inside his mind, and Armstrong, the robot, who just learns about life imitating this strange and unadapted little boy.
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Alex Olguin, I actually came across Armstrong-D.U. during the voting recently and really liked it, so it’s interesting to see how you’re visualizing the world now.
The contrast between control and something buried underneath comes through strongly — it feels structured on the surface, but quietly unsettling underneath.
Living in that kind of system feels like it would be safe, but also restrictive in a way you might not fully notice at first.
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Ayesha Simra Thank you, I'm glad it works so well. I mainly want to use all this art and concepts as guidance for the real artists and these coments help a lot to iterate for new visual concepts to make the world clearer.
About the voting... yes! I still can't believe I0ve gotten so far with this, specialy since Armstrong-D.U. is the only animated feature in the contest in Kinolime. I really hope I make it to the last 10 and then to the final 3.
Thanks for all the support, and the comment. They help a lot.
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Alex Olguin, That makes sense, using it as a foundation for real artists. It already feels very cohesive as a world.
And honestly, getting that far with an animated feature is impressive, especially since it stands out from the rest. Hope it makes it to the final round. Best of luck!