Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Autopilot is a hand-drawn 2D animation with art direction inspired by 1930s black & white rubberhose cartoons. In an all-robot world, an oppressive "A-Eye" is crushing the last remains of individuality in favor of ultimate automation. When one old-fashioned cog-in-the-machine gets the spark of creativity, an uprising begins.
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Drawing and Animation Software used: TVPaint, Clip Studio Paint, Blender Grease Pencil
Production Time: About 1 month for script and storyboards and 5 months for animation.
Synopsis (spoilers):
We follow the routine of a Robot with a dull lightbulb head living in a smoggy city controlled by a giant Eye. The Eye is using the Robots to build AutoGenerator devices for the Robots to passively consume autogenerated content.
The depressed Robots become even more obsolete as they're turned into 1's and 0's for the Eye. Our main Robot rediscovers his passion for music one day after work when he strums his dusty guitar, and this turns on his Lightbulb head with creative electricity.
The newly charged lightbulb starts a chain reaction of Robots being electrified back to “life” and waking up from their AutoPilot daze.
This glowing light from the Robots blind the giant Eye, which shrinks into a seed and sprouts up as a giant Sunflower. The mechanical city is reborn with robots who learned how to be creative and moment and operate in Pilot mode.
Credits:
Music by The Enigmatic Foe: enigmaticfoe.bandcamp.com
Micah Buzan – Script, Storyboards, Animation, Backgrounds, Compositing, Clean up & Color
Brittany Penn – Clean Up, Animation, Background Coloring & Texture: instagram.com/kidd_penn
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Autopilot is a hand-drawn 2D animation with art direction inspired by 1930s black & white rubberhose cartoons. In an all-robot world, an oppressive "A-Eye" is crushing the last remains of individuality in favor of ultimate automation. When one old-fashioned cog-in-the-machine gets the spark of creativity, an uprising begins.
►Patreon: patreon.com/MicahBuzan
►Loops & Animation Course: animatedloop.com
Drawing and Animation Software used: TVPaint, Clip Studio Paint, Blender Grease Pencil
Production Time: About 1 month for script and storyboards and 5 months for animation.
Synopsis (spoilers):
We follow the routine of a Robot with a dull lightbulb head living in a smoggy city controlled by a giant Eye. The Eye is using the Robots to build AutoGenerator devices for the Robots to passively consume autogenerated content.
The depressed Robots become even more obsolete as they're turned into 1's and 0's for the Eye. Our main Robot rediscovers his passion for music one day after work when he strums his dusty guitar, and this turns on his Lightbulb head with creative electricity.
The newly charged lightbulb starts a chain reaction of Robots being electrified back to “life” and waking up from their AutoPilot daze.
This glowing light from the Robots blind the giant Eye, which shrinks into a seed and sprouts up as a giant Sunflower. The mechanical city is reborn with robots who learned how to be creative and moment and operate in Pilot mode.
Credits:
Music by The Enigmatic Foe: enigmaticfoe.bandcamp.com
Micah Buzan – Script, Storyboards, Animation, Backgrounds, Compositing, Clean up & Color
Brittany Penn – Clean Up, Animation, Background Coloring & Texture: instagram.com/kidd_penn
►Subscribe + 🔔 for New Videos: youtube.com/channel/UCCjxj7bGisHgWB3KZi_lAPA?sub_confirmation=1
►Patreon: patreon.com/MicahBuzan
► Music Channel: youtube.com/@MicahBuzanMUSIC
► Facebook: facebook.com/MicahBuzanMUSIC
► Instagram: instagram.com/micahbuzan
► Bandcamp: micahbuzan.bandcamp.com
► Shop: animatedloop.com
