Every once in a while, a simple concept comes along and bends your head like ‘Scifi Fish in the City’ film: they come out at night. You’ve probably seen this one by artist Christian Szczerba before but it’s my first time, so I wanted to include it as a trippy little Sci-Friday entry. Take a look:
I love this because it takes a simple concept (‘what if fish could swim on land?’) and then walks us through the emotionally-jarring reality of seahorses in our grocery stories and sharks on our streets. Simple, well-executed, bravo!
This, of course, is not the only time we’ve seen an indie scifi creator blow our eyeballs back with something in Blender or Unreal Engine (eg. This post, and this post). Tech is lowering the bar of entry for new ideas and we’re reaping the benefits. Hope all the kiddos out there realize how fortunate they are to be living with such access. All we had back in the 80s were cheap cartoons and crummy product tie-ins.
But I’m not bitter. Love boosting indie scifi concepts like these ones. The only way for us to succeed as original scifi creators is to champion original scifi when it happens. I said it before, but it bears repeating. I hope you enjoyed this moment of sitting back, zoning out and congratulating yourself on making it through another dystopian week of 2024. Please feel welcomed to dive down the rabbit hole of every other Sci-Friday I’ve published in the past couple years. Have a great weekend!
