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The Guardian: The Last Job on Earth
Meet Alice, holder of the last recognisable job on Earth, trying to make sense of her role in an automated world.
'The Last Job on Earth' is a film produced in collaboration with the Guardian Sustainable Business section.
Directed
Moth Studio
Designed
Moth Studio
Produced
Moth Studio
Lead Animator
Carlos De Faria
2D animation
Sabine Volkert and Moth Studio
3D animation
Claudio Salas
Compositing
Claudio Salas and Moth Studio
Clean up
Stephen Vuillemin, Sabine Volkert, Frankie Swan and Moth Studio
Music and Sound Design
Box of Toys Audio
Client
The Guardian
Commissioning Editors
Tess Riley, Laura Paddison
Writer and Creative Director
Alistair Campbell
Senior Producer
Lucile Weigel
Executive Producer
Amelie von Harrach
Script Editor
Frances Polletti
Supported by
Doen Foundation
Production Year
2016
"Machines could take 50% of jobs in the next 30 years"
Moshe Vardi, Professor of computer science, Rice University.
As we were building a ‘near future’ reality, we needed to develop a utilitarian coldness to the way things were designed yet still keep them interesting and engaging. We made much of these design decisions in the storyboarding, making composition simple and bold to focus our attention on the story.
Being sci-fi in nature, there was a temptation to add detail but we quickly realised the absence of the detail made everything feel slicker and more minimal. That meant when we employed more texture in the ‘old town’ scenes of the film there was greater contrast, creating a more gritty and ‘real-world’ feel. We also developed a colour script that evolves throughout the film, going from warm to clinical, becoming cooler and darker with higher contrast toward the end, accenting Alice’s emotional journey throughout.
See the full article on The Guardian