My other favourite page. I don’t think it’s a particularly expensive VFX shot. It’s a low budget movie. Plus even a low budget goes a long, long way in Cape Town (and a filmmaker like me has a little experience in stretching a budget..)

I’m convinced my graphic novel & film script is a winner, but perhaps the next hurdle to making it into a successful film, is connecting with the right investors. So in an effort to get more attention to the project, I’m trying some quite ‘tangential’ marketing. I’m going to post some cartoons – about 1 per week – that might hopefully bring more viewers either to this site, or to my Twitter account (here).
I’m thrilled my Twitter following has grown close to 500 in a couple of months, and it’s certainly led to interactions with some very interesting people in A.I. But perhaps some highly-shareable cartoons will grow that number higher?
Introducing ‘Robots of the Revolution’ – a wry look at life on Earth after the robots have taken over. There’re still be some humans trying to fit in, but mostly it will be A.I. robots taking on human roles. So, let’s see how it goes. Fun times!
Some more stories this week that show how fast things are moving now. This article about a new supercomputer also mentioned how OpenAI researchers showed that the amount of ‘compute’ used in A.I. between 2012 and 2018 doubled every 3.5 months, far exceeding Moore’s Law, which predicts a doubling every 18 months.
Meanwhile, this article suggests we’ll have bionic eyes within 5 years. The Oracle Machine only dared to predict digital lenses!
My graphic novel also talks about hackers being able to destroy computers remotely by ‘switching voltage on the processors’. Whilst I suspect most computers surely have defences against this, it seems Chinese researchers have found a loophole whereby hackers could at least set some smart chargers alight with a ‘BadPower attack’.
Warning – crazy times ahead.
“You can try fight the devil, but the devil is part of you. You must find a way to make peace with your devil.”
My interpretation of some Jungian concepts prescribes one character’s journey in The Oracle Machine graphic novel and film script.
In script-writing, it’s a good idea for each character to have an ‘inner need’, an outer ‘want’ and some obstacle, that comes from the conflict between their wants and needs, and that stops them attaining those true needs.
So yes, script-writing can be therapeutic, as you apply these concepts to your characters, and remember that each character is a reflection of yourself anyway. Writing any book or producing any art is very revealing (and therapeutic, and thereby satisfying).
I’ve had characters wrestle with the devil in my other film work too!
In my short film DIE HEL (2009), a man has to try come to terms with his own inner fears in a strange corner of South Africa.
And in my zero-budget indie movie GIRL FROM NOWHERE, there are quite a few references to Liza (Christia Visser) as embodying ‘the devil herself’.