What If... The Emergence Destroyed the Earth?

 

I directed this episode, in which we follow Riri Williams as a young person struggling to retain hope in a broken world.

I love the hard sci-fi, cyberpunk, transhuman vibes of the story, and I have to admit that this is my favorite among the episodes I directed.

 

This episode takes place on a broken world, so this was always going to be about a somber tone and raw emotions, as in this sequence in which Riri has her first encounter with a patch of emotionally-charged of space debris.

 

…which causes Riri to retreat behind her emotional armor. After having lost so much, she won’t let anyone in.

 

The montage where Riri transforms into a human synthezoid is also something I storyboarded because I wanted to capture Riri’s emotion, which was about determination, yet a leap into the unknown.

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