YouTube is a platform that is synonymous with vlogs and documentaries, offering a daily dose of live-action entertainment for people across the globe. However, Glitch Productions, an American studio, has recently found immense success with its computer-animated series called Murder Drones.
This series has taken over YouTube, with over a million views for each of its five episodes. The first episode, released in October 2021, has almost twenty million views.
How This Post-Apocalyptic Series Revolutionized YouTube
Liam Vicker, the creator of Murder Drones, is known for his exceptional audience engagement. Being the first American to create a show for the Australian ran company, Liam Vicker has amassed an exceptional audience with Murder Drones due to the quickness and exquisite fluidity of the animation itself.
With each episode rendered and created using Unreal Engine, the story is set on an exo-planet named Copper 9.
This planet was colonized by the JCJensen corporation, but a bomb accidentally set off in the core of the strange world made it barren once more. Despite the harsh winter storm, artificially intelligent worker drones placed there by scientists and miners started making lives of their own by starting families and building communities.
The story of Murder Drones revolves around the robotic civilization that was created on Copper 9. Reports about this robotic civilization returning to Earth made the interstellar company go into action, remolding their once innocent design and sending murder drones back to Copper 9 to end this new robotic race.
The first and second episodes introduce the snide-filled but terrifying deviants that have long wings, edged teeth, and feast on the oil of dead worker drones. The audience also learns of Uzi, a rebellious teenage girl hiding underground from these monsters along with the rest of her drone community.
As the episodes of Murder Drones pull you more into the story, numerous twists and turns accompany the overarching mystery, and all of these elements combined will keep your eyes glued to the screen. The voice cast of Murder Drones humanizes the robotic characters, making each persona on the screen easily relatable and emotionally investable.
Elsie Lovelock and Michael Kovach voice Uzi and N, while Nola Klop voices V.
With three episodes left to go, Murder Drones has a must-see series that will inevitably change the landscape of YouTube-based animation for years to come.
When one thinks about the video streaming platform YouTube, vlogs about a person’s daily life or even short insightful documentaries that are just about anything and everything come to mind. Having surpassed the test of time, some content creators have become synonymous with the website, including Rhett and Link from Good Mythical Morning, who provide a daily show that thrives on variety, and Casey Neistat, an entrepreneurial personality from New York City.
While they provide a sense of live-action entertainment for many people across the world, all kinds of unique webtoons also have come to reside on this very popular corner of the internet.
While there are channels like Cartoon Hangover that host a variety of shows like Bravest Warriors and Bee and Puppycat, which both serve science fiction fans, as well as GOD’s School: The Olympian Gods, which attracts fantasy enthusiasts with its retellings of epic folklore, a studio that goes by the name of Glitch Productions has recently been finding immense amounts of success with a superbly made, computer animated series called Murder Drones.
With the first episode being released in October 2021 and each of the five entries so far released having well over a million views (the pilot actually having almost twenty million), the fandom surrounding these sentient robots and their will to survive is starting to take over YouTube.
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Being the first American to create a show for the Australian ran company, a man by the name of Liam Vicker (who is also a director and writer, among his other credentials) has amassed an exceptional audience with Murder Drones due to the quickness and exquisite fluidity of the animation itself.
With each episode rendered and created using Unreal Engine, the story is set on an exo-planet named Copper 9. While trying to colonize the planet, workers from the JCJensen corporation actually make the planet barren once more when a bomb is accidentally set off in the core of the strange world.
Even through a constant and harsh winter storm that serves as a never-ending post-apocalyptic event, artificially intelligent worker drones originally placed there by scientists and miners started making lives of their own by starting families and building communities. With reports about this robotic civilization returning to Earth, the spiteful interstellar company goes into action, remolding their once innocent design and sending murder drones back to Copper 9 to end this new robotic race.
While the first and second episodes quickly introduce the snide-filled but terrifying deviants that have long wings, edged teeth, and feast on the oil of dead worker drones, the audience also learns of Uzi, who is a rebellious teenage girl hiding underground from these monsters along with the rest of her drone community.
Through a chain of very perilous and dangerous events that serve as the catalyst of Murder Dronesshe ends up befriending Serial Designation N and V (technical names of the murder drones but commonly referred to as just N and V) as they try to figure out what’s really happening regarding JCJensen’s corporate and cryptic intent. As the exciting episodes pull you more into the story, numerous twists and turns accompany the overarching mystery, and all of these elements combined will keep your eyes glued to the screen.
The Voice Cast Humanizes The Robotic Characters
Bringing robots who exhibit human tendencies to life and who happen to live in an isolated and desolate wasteland but are foggy on their actual purpose isn’t the easiest task in the world. The Murder Drones voice cast seems to pull this off flawlessly, though, as every persona you see on the screen is easily relatable and, thus, easy to emotionally invest in.
Elsie Lovelock and Michael Kovach voice Uzi and N. With a long list of credits, Ms. Lovelock has lent her voice to an acclaimed anime fan film called Legend: A Dragon Ball Tale, as well as a hilarious series called SMG4 (another series made by Glitch Productions) where all things Super Mario Bros are parodied.
Mr. Kovach is also prominent in the field of voice acting, being in Five Nights At Freddy’s Fazbear and Friends, which streams on YouTube. He also brought to life characters from Akudama Drivea cyberpunk anime. Nola Klop voices V and has worked alongside both Lovelock and Kovach in the past in Poppy Playtimea horror-based video game.
Besides JCJensen being the villainous mastermind, a number of antagonistic forces are present in the series that haunt our main characters, like Doll, a worker drone who will stop at nothing to get revenge on V (who killed her family), Serial Designation J, a murder drone who mercilessly excels at her job, Tessa, a JCJensen human employee, Cyn, a mad maid drone and the Absolute Solver, the remaining construct of murder drones if they are killed.
Voice actresses Emma Breezy, Shara Kirby, Daisy Rose, and Allanah Fitzgerald each voice these unique parts. They have all been featured in notable titles, which include a popular fan-made production called Sonic: Rebounda Rooster teeth-produced animated series called RWBYa popular horror game on PC called Choo-Choo Charles, and an epic short film called Parallax Error.
With three episodes left to go of Murder Dronesthe horror story and the all-encompassing existentialism question mixed with the spellbinding cast absolutely make this a must-see series that will inevitably change the landscape of YouTube-based animation for years to come.
