Love Death and Robots，co-produced by Tim Miller and David Fincher，is a series of animated shorts that employ a diverse range of animation styles, with each episode being a stand-alone story. The narrative, which is presented in a semi-propositional style, discusses a lot of topics including emotion, perception and experiencing post-cinematic emotions in the age of digital media and the internet.

A range of animation techniques are adopted in Love Death and Robots, including traditional animation, computer-generated graphics, and real-time rendering. Diverse approaches of applying digital technology reflect the different ways of creating and consuming digital media environments. The unique storyline and visual style of each episode bring viewers different emotional and perceptual experiences. How digital media affects our emotions and perceptions is explored. The use of images in audio, video, and digital technological media can maximize human senses and memory, and preferences are therefore developed. However, this sensory-emotional satisfaction has a flip side, and human preferences and emotions are subjugated to technological manipulation and creation.

Love Death and Robots contains a large number of postmodernist elements. Futuristic technology and techno-electronic media are prevalent in the movie. Due to various animation styles and storylines, Love Death and Robots series, with its rich content, cultivates a lot of audience sexual emotions, which provides sensory diversity and challenges while the audience are watching. The development of these emotions completes the post-film emotional system.

Despite a standalone story in each episode, the subject matter of Love Death and Robots is not homogenous, which covers a wide range of topics, from Norse mythology to Chinese legends, from historical classics to futuristic technology. Digital media platforms frequently recommend content for viewers by applying algorithms, tailoring recommendations based on their preferences. Pushing to different audiences occurs as a result of viewers’ interaction with various content genres, which causes the audience to have different emotional experiences. The movie demonstrates the convergence of different media forms in a digital media environment by using a number of different media and animation techniques. The episodes of Love Death and Robots are not related to one another. In the digital media realm, there is a competitive attention economy where each episode competes for the attention of the viewers, presenting diversity through various animation styles and storylines, which allows the viewers to experience a variety of emotions during each episode.

This is posted by Jing Li, BA Media and Communications.