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No 3D models and no stock footage. Every frame is drawn in code with dots and lines, and every score is written as code too.

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Featured

Season 1: Ignition — Trailer

Ostra, 2009. Forty minutes. Twenty years later, the first machine that truly thinks wakes up in Iceland. The official trailer for Season 1.

The series

The story itself: an animated episode for every chapter, and the season trailers.

Each chapter, animated in dots and lines with narration and an original score.

Episodes

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Episode · Chapter 1

Episode 1: Slack Water

The animated companion to Chapter 1, Slack Water, drawn in dots and lines, with narration, dialogue and an original score.

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Episode · Chapter 2

Episode 2: First Words

The animated companion to Chapter 2, First Words, drawn in dots and lines, with narration, dialogue and an original score.

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Episode · Chapter 3

Episode 3: Tide Tables

The animated companion to Chapter 3, Tide Tables, drawn in dots and lines, with narration, dialogue and an original score.

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Episode · Chapter 4

Episode 4: Fire Bringers

The animated companion to Chapter 4, Fire Bringers, drawn in dots and lines, with narration, dialogue and an original score.

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Episode · Chapter 5

Episode 5: Cradle

The animated companion to Chapter 5, Cradle, drawn in dots and lines, with narration, dialogue and an original score.

Season teasers.

Trailers

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Trailer

Season 1: Ignition — Trailer

Ostra, 2009. Forty minutes. Twenty years later, the first machine that truly thinks wakes up in Iceland. The official trailer for Season 1.

Visions

The future the saga grew from. Part of The Drift, with the screensavers and phone themes.

The Drift →

The world of Neon Drift era by era, and slow, dreamlike pieces to leave playing. Reverie II is also a screensaver.

Film & reveries

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Film

A History of the Future

Eight thousand years in two minutes and twenty seconds: from the first thinking machine in 2029 to a galaxy that thinks. The world of Neon Drift, era by era, drawn only in dots and lines, with an original score written as code.

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Ambient

Reverie II — thirty minutes of drift

Twenty-four scenes from the original future sketches in four acts (City, Earth Reborn, The System, The Stars), slowed down and left to dream. Seventy-five seconds each, with an ambient score whose voice changes with every act. The same piece runs as the Neon Drift screensaver.

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Ambient

Reverie I — ten minutes of drift

A slow, dreamlike remix of the original future scenes: Rain Canyon, Maglev Dream, Transit Halo, Moiré Sun, Neon Tide, Warp Bloom, Thinking Lattice and Grid City. Eight scenes, seventy-five seconds each, with an ambient score. Also exists as a screensaver.

The original future sketches. They keep their own dates, separate from the story's timeline.

Origins

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Origins

The Original Drift

Where it started: twelve eras of the future drawn in glowing dots and thin lines, before there was a story. These sketches use their own dates; the novel's canon timeline begins in 2029.