Taking Inspiration: Waiting For Godot

A big Inspiration for me with Matt and I's animation now titled 'The Void: Leap of Faith' is the play/book Waiting For Godot. The story of Waiting For Godot is centred around two homeless characters that are basically waiting for the character of Godot to arrive. Godot has often been thought of as a god-like figure due to the name and his absence in the entire play. Godot never actually shows up so the moral of the story is if you just wait for your life to get better and amazing things to happen, it is never going to happen.

That I feel is basically the point of our animation. The characters in our animation 54 and 1 are essentially waiting for their lives to get better and something to happen because apart from themselves they basically have nothing, not even any meaning to their lives. 1 thinks 'Rendering' is coming, something he himself knows nothing about apart from it could be everything both these characters have ever wanted. But 54 is more sceptical. And just like Waiting for Godot, like Godot, Rendering is never going to come. The animators controlling the world they are stuck in are basically incompetent and are never going to complete the animation 54 and 1 are apart of.

Maybe this concept is too complicated for a minute long animation but that is just the way Matt and I work. If we are going to be passionate about something it's going to have a complicated meaning and a heck of a lot of thought put into the back story. But whether audiences will grasp the concept and spot the nod towards Waiting For Godot is another thing entirely.