Hey there,
My name’s Sean, and for the
last year I’ve been making a documentary about…replicators. Specifically: what they
are, the real-life projects working to build them, and their potential for radically
redistributing economic and political power…sooner than you think. If you want
to learn more, I’ve put a longer summary down below.
I’m posting here because much of the film
requires animation, and I’m currently trying to put together animatics (video
sequences of storyboard panels) to convey the general ideas of these sections.
Unfortunately, I can’t draw. So I’m
looking to hire an illustrator to translate my stick-figure storyboards into more
detailed animatic drawings that people can watch and understand.
I need
someone who can illustrate digitally (either in Photoshop or an open source
alternative), and it will likely require around 250 storyboard panels of
varying complexity, so it could be a decent chunk of work for the right person.
Familiarity with video editing software is a plus, though not required.
And while
the right skills are the most important thing, I’d love to work with someone
who has experience in hacker/makerspaces (…why I’m posting this here), or who’s
interested in anticapitalist/commons/post-scarcity movements.
I don’t
have a large budget, but I can pay a fair rate for the work (which we can
figure out once we’ve met to go over the scope of the project).
So if
you’re interested, please get in touch! And if you know anyone with the right
skills, please forward this to them! You can reach me at afuturecookshop@protonmail.com,
and it would be great if you could send me examples of any storyboard-like work
you’ve done in the past.
A bit more
about the film:
I’m making
a documentary about…replicators. And by that, I don’t mean 3D-printers, but instead
something much closer to the idea from science fiction – a box that can make
anything you want, automatically and for free.
It turns
out, you can build a replicator like this…right now. With technology that
already exists. And, a few groups already are.
You’re
imaging a single box, because of Star Trek, and overhyped 3d-printers.
But you
know how when they first invented computers, they’d take up a whole room?
Today, a replicator would be kind of like that - a system with lots of
different components working together, and people still doing some work here
and there.
So less a
box on your countertop, and more a kind of community factory. But even though they’re
a bit bigger and less automatic than you thought, they’re still really useful.
If your
community has one, you can make basically everything you need or want, using
local resources and energy, and radically less work and money than it takes
now.
And what’s
even more revolutionary, is that they actually can…reproduce. You can use one to make another, eventually for so
little that communities everywhere can have one.
(Note for hackers
– yes, like RepRap. But…big. And able to make all the stuff you actually need,
like food/housing/medicine/everything else)
It sounds
like magic, but groups including NASA have been working on it for decades, and the
current open-source efforts have the potential to radically redistribute
economic and political power…sooner than you think.