"Immortal Machine" | Dystopian Animated Short Film (2021)

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Created by David James Armsby.
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"You think you understand? All the lies? All the needless atrocities?...
No. There is reason, and I want to show you..."
Deep in the heart of Autodale lives their Mayor. As old as the town itself, a once great inventor, now a gangly and decaying but undying thing which the townsfolk have long forgotten, but continue to echo his machine-obsessed beliefs.
This film follows Autodale's Exceptional Woman as she journey's deep down the rabbit hole of the Mayor's Immortal Machine.

This film was one of the most challenging and taxing projects of my life. The film covers a subject matter that is extremely difficult to pull off from an artistic and technical standpoint. Nothing about the setting, characters or structure of this film was easy to do. That's actually the reason I've put off tackling the heart of Autodale and the Matriarch for so long. I knew to pull it off successfully would require a tremendous amount of time, effort and artistic know-how which I didn't feel confident I could do.
It wasn't until after finishing my previous and longest animated short film, "Friendly Shadow", that I finally felt that I was at the skill level required for this gigantic project.
I'm not in love with all of it, but overall I think it definitely succeeded. This film is extremely ambitious and grand and I'm extremely proud of the result. I really hope you guys like it too! :D

Voice Actors:
Adrienne Cox - "Exceptional Woman", "Hive", "The Matriarch".
David Armsby - "The Mayor"
Original Music composed by Rayshaun Thompson and Cameron Moody.
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FULL SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE HERE!:
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MAKING OF
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This is the seventh film in the Autodale Animated Series. Here's the full playlist!:
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Kieren Shan
3 hours ago
I wish this had captions actually- the auto captions are often inaccurate and there were several parts that no matter how much I replayed it I wasn't sure what was being said...
Donut Dragon
4 hours ago
dang this poor world
Ghost
4 hours ago
This channel is really underrated like wow this is some good stuff
Habitual Resistor
6 hours ago
I would love to see more on the "Friendly Shadow".
Habitual Resistor
6 hours ago
Wow. I just finished the whole story, and I have to say, this is the best animated series on youtube. There are others I totally love, but this really is the best in my opinion. Bravo
angry and confused Teen
12 hours ago
This is what I think is happening we destroyed the planet and the goddess is nature so to keep the human race alive they must commit mass murder to keep the goddess alive and humans they must become murderers to stay alive
Сосуд из Бездны
Day ago
Somebody do a subtitles, please. Think about deaf people.
Violet Bilodeau
Day ago
Can't wait for the next episode! Masterpiece.
Chocolate Pancakes • Edible
Day ago
1:03 *C L A P C L A P C L A P*
Bradley Lopez
Day ago
This doesn’t have enough views, the amount of detail is crazy considering its just one person doing the animation.
Jelly Jr.
Day ago
It’s like they were ravaged by a nuke
ItzEva_1075
Day ago
I am now officially scared-
Bob Bobinski
Day ago
I wonder if this is going to be a thing where we just keep learning more about this town and never come to a conclusion, or will there actually be an ending.
Sondash360
Day ago
This is definitely one of the best works of yours, that being said please don't stress yourself too much. A short like this made by a one man army is already an achievement on itself. All the work you put in your shorts is stunning, so don't be afraid to ask for help if something's too laborious. Really, amazing work David.
galactic doggo
Day ago
This storyline should be in a game
Ancientstorm
2 days ago
Awwww shit he said my name!
Max smith
2 days ago
this reminds me of the movie 9
Benjamin Connor
2 days ago
So, it was Cyberdemons all along. Fantastic Job.
ARYA GHAITADKE
2 days ago
Perfect nightmare fuel
nun mem
2 days ago
The movie should end at 2:46
PC KILLER
2 days ago
Cool video but more detail would have made a huge difference.
imnoturgod
3 days ago
dang autodale be looking like damn citadel with the combine and everything
La caja de Pandora
3 days ago
Holy shit, Walter White has come a long way...
Aaliyah
3 days ago
3:18 “hey vsauce Micheal here”
Colby
3 days ago
Absolutely gorgeous.
smiley satanson
3 days ago
i still dont get it
idoitsandwich
3 days ago
Please make this into a game!!!!
SCP Foundation
4 days ago
So everything has to be perfect and the people that are called ugly are basically smart and they are said to the goddess so this this blows my mind oh my god this dream from the dream SMP live here ? Also this is perfect This is the most interesting thing that has come out of 2021 for the most part
thanosshould snaprn
4 days ago
Idk if this is some kinda series or what but whew this is getting hella interesting
Jade Techna
4 days ago
3:30 Remember the film “Mother of Nature”? This “thing” kinda looks like it with the sticks in the shoulder’s and all 3:36 And you can kinda see some horn/ear like things on the head like Mother Nature in the film But it looks like a skull instead- Just a similarity tho
Samuel Lopez
4 days ago
Jesus is coming
Barbora Krátká
4 days ago
In what program do you create your story?
Kobe One
4 days ago
10:36 The leaves floated down, compared to the usual reversed gravity.
Aux Navy
5 days ago
2:40 Rule 34 pls
Lord Cypher
5 days ago
This has a very WH40k vibe with the sacrifices needed to keep humanity alive. Both keep a literal god/goddess alive which in turn protects humanity from Chaos/Disease.
Geoff Zuo
5 days ago
You know, this just feels like abzu, and I loved that game
ThePatrioticDog
5 days ago
Netflix you now
Jackson Brown
5 days ago
The liquid keeping her alive seems to trigger all the sorrow fed from those who gave their limited lives to. She cries out from the injection. Does she know this is a futile solution?
galdrick millard
5 days ago
S'il vous plaît faites des sous-titres en français ☹️
Bilal Aslam
5 days ago
I think the best part of this series is there are no "good" or "bad" guys, and no insidious ideology that they are justifying the atrocities in the name of. Rather, the Mayor is choosing the only viable option to prevent the end of human existence itself - he recognizes there are no good choices, that the outside world is too corrupted, diseased, and broken to ever fix. All he can do is continue to sustain what is left of human's miserable existence by creating a reality where individuals can live as happily deluded as possible. But in the end, the Mayor knows that it is all for nought, and even he will succumb to fate.
Haywire - Hatred
5 days ago
The best film to date :D
Arrigo !
5 days ago
this serie was great
2Hostage2
5 days ago
A strong story :O Nice ^^
Maurice Vivet
5 days ago
Can you add a French subtitle please
korvasxeno
5 days ago
what happened to the little girl who got healed?
Savannah Chapman
5 days ago
So are all the hive members people who saw through the lies? Or is the middle girl the first to do that and those in the hive are from before the city was finalized? Also, are all hive members female? I saw some that looked male but only heard female voices, especially the duo that are wrapped together.
BlackCover95
5 days ago
•No, just the first one was the one to see through it all. •The others were specifically collected by her, assimilated to be a giant think tank. •There are indeed make Hive members (the Friendly Shadow used to be in the Hive), but they all share the Exceptional Woman’s voice.
Chocoboy
5 days ago
is...is the mother of nature dead? are there more then one of her? dave said that the world of the great rat and terrible hound and the world of autodale are the same, and in that story, the rat has a sculpture of the mother of nature, so is the mother of nature dead, or did she do this?
Chocoboy
5 days ago
@BlackCover95 i posted this literally 2 hours befote David said against it.
BlackCover95
5 days ago
“Mother of Nature” is not canon. Proof: usmuchs.info/call/video/a8aIgmO6r3m8a6Q.html
P E A R B E A R
5 days ago
The wailing of the matriarch sends shivers down my spine
Emily L
5 days ago
so... it's not as black and white as it seems.
Jacciswacc
6 days ago
“Don’t be happy about your achievements, be happy that you lived to see them.”
Surtu
6 days ago
The fascinating bit is that the goddess isn't really being kept alive by him to protect the people, the people are being kept alive by him and in a tightly controlled system to use as fuel to try and keep alive the goddess. So they're told lies so at least the ones that haven't been harvested yet are happy, but none of it means anything its all just to hide that they're fuel. Simultaneously the goddess clearly doesn't want this at all and it even causes her pain; she wants to heal them. But she doesn't hate him despite what he's doing and how it hurts her. So complex.
xxRIVERxx Mountain
6 days ago
omg its so amazing I've waited so long for the next animation to come out ITS JUST SO AMAZING
Katy-Cat Weeaboo
6 days ago
Am I the only one drawing a connection between The Withering Goddess and The Mother of Nature?
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Cushla Skipper
6 days ago
Awesome
SkullBunny Xx
7 days ago
“Immortal Machine” or as I call it, Benny if he was a rotting corpse, talks to girl
Мануела Кръстева
7 days ago
OK, i hate this.
Francesca DeLallo
7 days ago
Do you think the boy from the husband and wife we saw in Model Citizen is the dad that died in Friendly Shadow? The little girl seems oddly similar to the one we see waving, the only thing I can see wrong with this is the fact that the wife has a pixie cut, and they have two sons- one which I am pretty sure is older that the girl, which would have made them standing with them. I don't know. I like to think everything is all related, so really it is just my head cannon. Also, I think the man was killed off by the robots or " Handyman" . I am pretty sure the Handyman found out the daughter was hanging out with the "Freaks", so they tried to kill her, but instead the dad, or the man, saw his daughter about to die and intervened. Ultimately, causing his death and making it possible for his daughter to run away. We see Friendly Shadow find the girl and her friend but we don't really know what happened to him? Did the hive rewire him or kill him off???
BlackCover95
5 days ago
It can’t be the same. Robinson Jr’s wife is seen tuning in to the radio show at the end of “Friendly Shadow”.
TheAdvertisement
7 days ago
Is it just me or does the Mayor look a lot like how the Goddess used to look?
Jasmine
7 days ago
the story of auto-dale is made so well, its kind of creepy
mknz
7 days ago
man I just watched all of these, and... WOW, they are incredible. the animation, the story... everything's so unsettling but the animation is really pretty (haha) and clean and I can't stop watching
Mander Nugget
7 days ago
Me after changing my name to something I feel that's more comfortable but forgetting it frequently 0:05
hillosmillos
8 days ago
It's so disturbing that Mayor was actually made with human skin. They somehow collected them (I don't want to think how) and attached them all together. The bad part is the place is huge and it looks like it was all covered with fresh human skin and limbs. I also don't want to imagine what Mayor did to her to turn a human to that disgusting head creature thing.
OCULU games & craft
8 days ago
Out of all the shapes it has to be 10:25 really
Egirhor
8 days ago
I wonder how the mayor figured out that he must feed the matriarch with human jam in order to keep her alive.
Kitsune Scribe
6 days ago
Equivalent Exchange?
Life with Eva
8 days ago
OMG I JUST FINISHED READING THE 'UGLIES' BOOK SERIES AND REALLY WANTED IT TO BE A MOVIE!!!! I JUST REALIZED HOW CLOSE THIS IS! PRETTIES AND UGLIES OMGGGGGGGG There are some missing factors, but this is the closest I think I will get. Reply if you've read 'Uglies' 😏
Spicy Pacifist
8 days ago
So, he found basically a goddess of life. After she helped her daughter, she 'died', so he did what he could to bring her back to life and keep her alive, by slowly replacing her skin of bark to flesh so she could accept blood to continue living. By the looks of it, she seems at least content with being alive, even leaning into the mayor's touch. But the sounds she made when blood was injected say otherwise. Perhaps her body still isn't used to the flesh and blood, so it always hurts her. Or, perhaps he hurts her on purpose in order to get like, a burst of healing, or something like that. Also...wonder if we'll see anything with that little girl again. I'm sure being the first touched by the goddess became some kind of honor.
HDRpointer
8 days ago
Daaaamn, this explains everything, although makes 1000 times more questions.
BEATBOXthemovie
8 days ago
they all need to know the truth about everything
Ok Dario
8 days ago
I don't really get what the woman does and why she is seen trapped with other faces. Are they supposed to help Autodale function?
canary 002
8 days ago
What's happening here is the earth is evolving and the mayor desperately trying to stick to the old ways instead of surrendering to nature and fighting against her instead he arrogantly thinks hes saving her. The freaks are proof of his arrogance. What hes doing isnt necessary, but hes done too much ri keep this going so he cant in his mind give it up. The people of ato dale aslo represent us .
Natalie Kolbe
8 days ago
Yo those walls reminds me of the walls from attack on titan lmao
BuriXon 120702
8 days ago
it's amazing.. i love that
Joanne Wilson
8 days ago
This is happening right now. People are waking up to this pandemic and pulling the curtain back and finding out what really lurks behind.
Biggie Cheese
9 days ago
This is super great but I kinda miss when these were more of a social commentary
Eddwardo Chesterfield
9 days ago
The shape of the tower is picking at me.
João Marcelo
9 days ago
I understand that the creator of Autodale maintained this bizarre utopia to keep the citizens of the city free from the disease, but the question is, what guarantees that this disease still exists and that it wasn't eradicated years, or perhaps centuries ago?
Dank Duck Studios
9 days ago
It’s almost over
someone¿•-•¿
9 days ago
Sometimes lies are the only thing that can bring you happiness...
ITZA TRENDING
9 days ago
In friendly shadow the girl and the little freak walked right out of Autodale, I don't think the goddess is necessary anymore, autodale's machine can stop and the people can live freely. The mayor wont free them.
Ticci - Toby
9 days ago
So uhh, what do they do with the waste of the goddess? If she uses energy to protect autodale from disease, wouldn't her waste be likewise to radioactive?
Ace
9 days ago
So they need the blood of the “uglies” to keep that goddess alive?
ANON#1
9 days ago
This is the best show that I've ever watched. The fact that it's an indie project is incredible
Gol d
9 days ago
I really wanne see HIVE arguing with echtother like Angry hive: shut up funny hive ur soo anoying Funny hive :hahaa you need 🥛
Neo Confederate Guy
9 days ago
I want an episode where the citizens start an uprising/Revolution for their freedom
sema kaya
9 days ago
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Åsta Helgheim Grung
9 days ago
dude i hope this is a nother guy voicing him
Gary Hay
9 days ago
The wilting goddess is Mother Nature from the other film Deadsound had made!
Altan Cengiz
9 days ago
Wait a min the emperor is a half monster?
Venus Montage
9 days ago
founding titan, walls, and the 'outside' that is sick
imaginative girl
10 days ago
i just have 1 word to say wow what a animation
sea turtle シ
10 days ago
ósea que ya se termino????? nooooooo yo quería mas F, pero me encanto estuvo muy bien echo todo :3
Syddie animations
10 days ago
can someone please tell me what program he uses???
Gaming Puperz
10 days ago
I can't tell if they are forcing her to make energy... or she is grateful that they are keeping her alive. Is the blood supposed to make her scream or something so she makes energy? I am confused
Sage Ervin
10 days ago
This story is so good but there is one major plot hole. In the episode “Model Citizens”, the tv program says “your boy or girl”, implying that each couple only has one child. If this is the case, the population will dwindle pretty quickly which kind of destroys the purpose of keeping the human population alive. I don’t know, does anyone have an explanation?
Sage Ervin
10 days ago
@BlackCover95 Thank you. I must have missed that
BlackCover95
10 days ago
There are families with more than one child, canonically. It’s been shown in several episodes-including the first one!
João Vitor Farina Braga
10 days ago
Man not gonna like but that tower came directly from the little mermaid poster
Juan Pablo Navas
10 days ago
Oh my god, this was uploaded the same day that was my birthday... Thank you i think :3
Kehinde Omotoso
10 days ago
It is disturbingly interesting
Noah T T
10 days ago
Truly beautiful I am excited to see how this world evolves
R Lulli
10 days ago
is that Neo from final matrix ? like Jesus sacrifices self for all?