The Modern Prometheus: Animated

as directed by @can-of-w0rmz & @dykensteinery (Lonely Doll Productions)

Tired of big name film-makers distorting classic literature? Want to see Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's original Frankenstein truly brought to life for once? Look no further!

The Modern Prometheus offers a visual adaptation of the Frankenstein 1818 novel (with some bits from the less known, author-annotated 1823 text) that stays loyal to the themes of the novel! to us, these include, but are not limited to:

disability & mental illness

motherhood: post partum depression/psychosis

corruption of the justice system

gender (subversion of roles & here we are attempting a narratively transfeminine victor frankenstein)

abuse & cycles

Ask Blog!

We’re hosting a chance to interact with our cast of characters themselves! For a limited amount of time, you can send an ask to this blog addressed to any character you’d like and we’ll respond with them in art. Have fun!

Fund us!

At the moment, Patreon is our main source of funding. As we are just beginning, most benefits for the higher tiers will be concept art and test animations, but expect things like early animation, storyboards and exclusive art in the future!

You can start supporting for as low as £5 per month and get Discord access, but we recommend getting into our "Birth to our Creation" and "It's Alive!" tears to have early access to our stuff.

Kickstarter campaign hopefully starting soon, which will be our actual source :)

We Need Animators!

This is a paid position—if you are an animator that is interested, send an email to [email protected] with any examples of your work! We’ll review your submission when we begin the script, and be in touch to discuss further details if you are accepted.

To avoid confusion, our initial, general artist applications have been closed. Please do not send any further applications to that original email.

Email applications are currently open for portfolio submissions, but a very fair warning that we will likely not be in touch for a short while as we sort through other areas of the project, and organise vacancies in our pre-production and promotional animation team properly. It may be more practical to wait before submitting in that sense, but as long as you do not mind waiting we are happy to receive portfolios now!

We will likely begin to select animators for our concept trailer around the end of June, but please do note that this is not a solid deadline. Should we need to extend this, we will be in touch with our applicants. We may also be in touch sooner for other promotional projects.

At this time, it is all considerably more fluctuating than it would be for our final pilot production due to the nature of our current crowdfunding and the early organisational period, so please keep that in mind before applying.

‘Family Portrait’

—Twitter art trend

A 14 year old Caroline Beaufort.

F:TMP — A serialised, animated adaptation of Frankenstein (1818). Support the pre-production and concept team for our pilot episode and concept trailer on Patreon!

I think he wants to be let in