Joseph Luster
October 19, 2016 Electronic musician Porter Robinson went extra ambitious with his new music video, which involved teaming up with Crunchyroll and anime studio A-1 Pictures. The result is SHELTER, a six-minute short anime that features an original story and characters created by Robinson himself. Why drag on with a synopsis, though, when you can check it out for yourself below?
Okay, now the official synopsis:
Shelter tells the story of Rin, a 17-year-old girl who lives her life inside of a futuristic simulation completely by herself in infinite, beautiful loneliness. Each day, Rin awakens in virtual reality and uses a tablet which controls the simulation to create a new, different, beautiful world for herself. Until one day, everything changes, and Rin comes to learn the true origins behind her life inside a simulation.
Dig the full credits on the YouTube page.
Here’s what Porter Robinson had to say about it:
“Japanese pop culture and anime have been a huge influence on my music, so getting the chance to make my own anime is very much a dream come true. To actually collaborate on creating anime is just unbelievable,” Robinson explains. “The video forSHELTER is the most concrete distillation of being immersed into fantasy and it’s connection to reality. Most of our life experience is now in some way connected to technology. The world of SHELTER, this virtual reality universe that she’s stuck in where she has this superpower to create environments and go around and play in them and explore them everyday. It’s a beautiful notion and something that’s relevant to my own sensibility as an artist”.
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