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Millennium Bug explores satirical definitions for a decayed millennium. Words such as "jork" are defined as "any variety of genetically tailored meat product" and the accompanying vision shows a zucchini-like slug moving backwards through a black and white urban wasteland.
Images for the film originated with black and while photographs taken from the San Francisco waterfront, scanned onto a Silicon Graphics workstation and doctored with Adobe Photoshop. 3D elements were modelled, textured, lit and key-framed to match these images. 2D tricks were added to create the illusion that Millennium Bug was shot on old motion picture stock: this included the creation of artificial grain, splices, scratches and "handheld" camera moves.
Animator/director Lee Lanier has previously worked as computer artist on Mortal Kombat and Antz and utilises his animation and creative skills to produce this tongue-in-cheek slant on the landscape of the future.