The official site for Aaron Sims' sci-fi short
Archetype has been updated with the online premiere of the 7-minute film. As mention before in our
previous post, Sims is a veteran creature/concept designer with a prolific resume in some of the biggest summer blockbuster including the recent
Rise of the Planet of the Apes,
Transformers: Dark of the Moon and
The Thing. The passion project by the visionary artist is produced through his own company and stars Robert Joy (
Land of the Dead,
CSI:NY) and David Anders (
Heros,
24). Compare with other spectacular visual effects films from major studio in Hollywood, the eye candy holds up fairly strong with just only a fraction of the budget. It seems like the ending is a prelude to a possible story expansion in a feature length version.
RL7 is an eight foot tall combat robot. Only problem is he's starting to remember once being human. Now on the run from an all powerful corporation that will stop at nothing to destroy him RL7 desperately searches for the truth behind his mysterious memories before it's too late.
You'll find the full short embedded below.