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director's commentary

yet again, i made a video based on my childhood nightmares!

if you read the commentary for cooking with mac you will know that it was very nearly the final animation published for the Soi Animatica project.

2023 was a bad year for me regarding my mental health. i was dealing with a lot of crummy situations; some actively occuring in my present, and others from the recent past that i was still processing.
on top of it all, i was unable to access my anti-depressants for over half of the year due to what i can only describe as overt pharmaceutical tom-foolery.

it wasn't until after some well-needed introspection that i was inspired to continue the project.

i thought about my fears, my memories, my sorrows, and everything that had been going wrong in my life. I realized that a common theme was shared between them; a theme that was, for some reason, reflected in my childhood nightmares.

and that is what you see! a collection of my best attempts to recreate them in animation.

the fishman dream in particular spooked me so much as a child that for weeks after i was terrified that if i closed my eyes my teachers would transform into one of these fishmen and come after me.
i kept my eyes open as much as i could bare!

the ending "where are they now" montage was included for a few reasons.
firstly, i feared that the bulk of the video could have been percieved as taking itself too seriously, and that was something i was actively trying to avoid after butcher butcher.
secondly, it was important to me to portray these freaks as real people with lives outside of being sorta scary in a dumb animation. it's very easy to see something weird and disregard it as nothing more. perhaps i mean something by this.

bonus fact: this video had the working title dreamscape. i decided to be a touch more subtle.

original description

enter the dreamscape :

this video contains flashing images !!