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Greyish silhouettes meet steampunk! This trailer for The Mysterious Geographical Explorations of Jasper Morello is breathtaking:

Set in a world of iron airships, this silhouette animation tells the story of Jasper Morello, a disgraced aerial navigator who flees his plague-ridden home hoping to redeem himself. His expedition leads him to an island which is home to a monster that may hold the cure for the Plague. The journey back is filled with dangers but, Jasper soon discovers that the greatest horror of all lies within man himself.

The Geographical Explorations as a whole refer to a series of four shorts produced in association with the Australian Film Commission: Jasper Morello and the Lost Airship, Jasper Morello and the Return of Claude Belgon, Jasper Morello and the Ghosts of Alto Mea and Jasper Morello and the Ebenezer of Gothia. Only the first short has been released, which has been nominated for an Academy Award.

You know - putting something like this out wouldn't have been possible five years back. What are we going to be seeing five years from now?

J.