HERE IS THE TRANSCRIPT INTERVIEW FROM MAHIRO MAEDA. THE DIRECTOR OF THE 2ND RENAISSANCE. THIS SHOULD ANSWER MOST OF YOUR EVER-BURNING QUESTIONS LOL. 1 In the first half, humans treated robots like objects. 2 I guess thats only to be expected, but that was the concept. 3 And in this later half, that is reversed, and the robots treat humans like objects. 4 A sort of anti-humanism is expressed here. 5 Those are the themes that we thought out. 6 The real revenge of the robots who have been taken advantage of starts. 7 It was the humans who attacked first, but the robots, whose home, Zero-One, was destroyed, are beginning their attacks. 8 This image was taken from a street corner in Eastern Europe, and it shows that the machines towns have advanced and grown this far. 9 Here, as it shows, there is a military operation called Dark Storm. 10 Why did the world become what is called the Matrix? 11 Its because humans initiated a suicidal plan and destroyed the sky. 12 And, this is the final battle. 13 This battle has a mythical element to me as if the sun were setting on humankind, and this is mankinds last battle. 14 Rather than just being a war film, its more like a battle of the gods. 15 Gods and Titans. God and Satan. Like those types of legends, there is an apocalyptic sense, and a sense of the Book of Revelations. 16 And people of all ethnicities and cultures come together to offer their final prayers before heading off to battle. 17 And, these planes flying here, if you look closely, they are the machines invented by the robots. 18 They fly using the hovercraft engines. 19 And, the bombs being dropped are not normal bombs, but house micro-machines, or nano-machines, and they will destroy the sky and bring darkness upon the world. 20 And, they will be distributed, on a large scale, all over the world blocking the sun in order to shut off the robots power source. 21 And, they plan to dismantle the robots while they are inoperative. 22 That was Operation Dark Storm. 23 Up to that point, the images are still realistic. 24 From here on, were in the dark due to Operation Dark Storm, and we created a mythical and hell-like landscape. 25 The enemies are machines. The advanced machine equipment the humans used, they become useless as well because they are all machines. 26 And, humans begin to act recklessly as if they were sent back to the primitive age. 27 Their only choice is to confront the robots with violence. 28 These cruel scenes continue for a while. 29 Depending on how you look at it, they are only destroying objects so it might be hard to call it a violent scene. 30 This scene displays that sort of irony as well. 31 This here depicts views from the periscopes on the tanks and powered suits. 32 And, the powered suits use nuclear weapons and neutron bombs and they plan to burn the enemys micro-chips to destroy them, but it doesnt quite work. 33 Scenes like this too. 34 Basically, powered suits and the machines are drawn in 3-D CGI 35 Oh, this is 2-D. This was drawn by hand. 36 But this is a combination. 37 Using them in combination was pretty difficult. 38 I just hope it worked well. 39 These scenes too. 40 In the script, we wrote this scene to be like peeling the shell off a lobster. 41 A powered suit being peeled off like the shell of a lobster. 42 That was one of the more difficult scenes. 43 Basically, all of these images here are a collection of images gathered by informational CCD cameras worn by the soldiers. 44 Oh, but these images, this is a pure image. 45 We tried inserting images here and there in hopes to convey the sadness and devastation of the humans who have been trampled on by the machines and their inhumanness. 46 Humans can also be considered machines. 47 The machines created a plague with an unknown virus, a virus designed to kill humans one by one. 48 And, the machines who lost their power source because of Operation Dark Storm begin to try and extract energy from the body of humans. 49 And, they stop killing humans, but rather try to keep them alive, albeit in great pain. 50 And, they extract the electric currents that flow within the nervous system and use humans as an element of power generation. 51 And, a very disturbing vision unfolds. 52 And later on, there is the place where Neo awakes in The Matrix. 53 Hes connected to a huge human generator, so we designed this accordingly. 54 We tried to convey the mass deaths that occurred in the 20th century, and it is our hope that you will be disgusted by it. 55 And here, the machine ambassadors reappear 56 but they have already quit imitating humans. 57 In Part A, they were imitating human appearances out of respect for humans, but they no longer recognize the worthiness of humans. 58 They stopped being human-like. 59 Rather, they take on an appearance unique to machines. 60 They changed into an insect-like, grotesque appearance. 61 It can be said that they evolved. 62 With the self-destruction of the machine, the UN building and Manhattan are blown away. 63 This was also a very hard scene to watch. 64 The storyboard for this scene was completed last year before September 11th. 65 And with that event, I thought that we wouldnt be able to create this scene. 66 Well, but there was no order to cut the scene. So, we went ahead and created it and put it in. 67 I was still worried that it might get a bad review from viewers, but it was a scene I didnt want to cut because of its importance to the films message and story. 68 And so humans, like this by closing their hearts with civilization retreating back into its shell everything becomes extinct. 69 Extinct might not be the right word but all mankind becomes connected and wired to this matrix, and they live within a collective dream. 70 This kind of demonic world is waiting. 71 But, we dont really know if that world is truly scary. 72 Is it scarier to see the reality of Earth utterly destroyed, or is it just better to continue living in a peaceful dream? 73 It wasnt the goal of this project to try and answer that question, but it would be great if this question is brought to mind by watching this. A transcript of director, Mahiro Maeda's Commentary for the Animatrix's short film, The Second Renaissance Part 1. The Animatrix's The Second Renaissance Part 1 is written and directed by Mahiro Maeda. Story by Lana and Lilly Wachowski.

"The machines had little to fear of the bombs' radiation and heat." Because EMPs, the very thing humans continuously use against the machines in the future and are a natural byproduct of nuclear detonation, decided to stop being a thing for a little while.

The scene with humanity finally putting their differences aside religions and politics-wise, in order to defeat a common enemy that would end them as they know it, was very symbolic. Sadly, it was all for nothing.

Yea ok let’s blot out the sun which all life depends great idea!

3:55 this is one of the scariest scenes for me, the first generation power plant, according to the creators this was a floating platform that roamed the "desert of the real" , collected survivors and forcing men, women and children into electrochemical slavery as a means of producing electricity. Hard to imagine a more terrifying existence than to be torn away from your family and everyone you ever knew, physically installed side by side with people you dont know, and yet.. you are all brothers and sisters, flesh and blood comrades doomed to suffer the same fate.. an existence worse than hell itself, those who are the first to starve to death are liquified into _soylent green_ macronutrient smoothies that are forcefed to emaciated survivors for life support. People want to leave the suffering of this world behind, but they are physically restrained from being able to commit suicide. 5:27 is also equally terrifying .. the machines do not let anyone die, they keep everyone alive against their will and perform cruel lab-rat experiments on the central nervous system, bio electrical body processes to study people's anatomical makeup.. at this point the machines understand us humans better than we ever understood ourselves. as people we are limited by ethics and our commitment to medical morals.. something the machines dont care for. They perform vivisections and terrible, yet groundbreaking experiments on living human beings. tinkering with our bodies, poking and prodding, electrochemically stimulating conscious human brains, testing our limits and taking care not to kill the subject.. and yet if one dies, there are billions more to cut open and experiment on 6:00 At this point, human beings have lost all fundamental rights and free-will. The only freedom the machines have gifted us is the ability to turn one's head left and right to perceive a reality which would have been unimaginable only a few years earlier. People even lack the freedom to self-terminate. Wilful Suicide is a luxury that even the richest man on earth can no longer afford... All of human history has come down to this moment. Human creativity, love, passion, excitement, struggles, our trials and tribulations.. all of that has gone out the window. The seemingly limitless potential of humanity's physical strengths, beauty and imagination, has been discarded. A person's value is now limited to the electrochemical energy potential found within his or her mitochondrial cells on a microscopic level. ..

1:30 you can see that in this scene the mechs are more armored but 4:53 you can see that they are missing armored plating meaning humans were fucked economically and didn’t care for the protection if the troops they made budget cuts

Fun fact: Notice the mechs in the beginning just walks around but after all the nuclear devastation which created massive and impassable impact craters they modified their mechs with jet packs to maneuver the battlefield and the majority of tanks primarily served as long range artillery units powered by atomic reactors which explained why it explodes like crazy. An awesome detail on the part of mahiro maeda.

I know the machines were fighting for survival, but they committed just as many atrocities as the humans they were fighting, likely more.

I want to see spinoffs of the first 2 Matrix prototypes. The Paradise Matrix and the Nightmare Matrix

4:35 federation flag used fro cod

Ive always loved this insight and interpretation into pre movie matrix history. So much symbolism, keep in mind EMP shielding is a thing. And it's 99.9% effective. Who knows maybe after the defeat of humanity it was no longer considered necessary.

7:44 I want to believe that kid is Neo

4:09 Illuminati confirmed

stared at a map and studied ur video pretty closely...I like how mapped out each win and loss and the machines overall strategy of driving the west and southern fronts inward to Turkey...THEN JUST EXPLODING OUTWARD IN EVERY DIRECTION...fucking brutal strat. U basically calculated the machine's entire strategy!

4:44 - Looks like trenches, or a base. The robots just proceeding forward in a wall, unencumbered, sweeping for any human survivors and presumably harvesting or murdering them...that's horrifying

I like how we ended up fighting till then the end and even after the end. Its our own way of survival. For all of our flaws, humans are resilient asf we were able to push near perfect beings back and still fought a good fight

You would think with the worlds nuclear stockpile they would just glass the entire thing when shit was starting to go south.

Oh my god I never could have thought In a million year's that my country the Philippines would fall

Humanity should have declared war on the machines when they established 01. They should have done a full fledged offensive and destroy the machines before they realized that we were batteries. They should have never let the machines form a nation to begin with. The smartest thing we should have done was commit a world wide genocide of the hardware and reconstruct the software so they would never have had the freedom to think that they were "a living" being or organism to begin with.

And this is why I banned the development and the uses of sentient, Abominable Intelligences

1:26 I never noticed this before, but it wouldn't be called "George" Company. It would be called "Golf" Company. 6:52 Aeon Flux

The story was well told in that it horrified you. But once you actually think about it the story makes no sense. Dark Storm would have turned the world into a barren frozen waste land that would have killed all the humans; assuming that the constant use of nukes have not done that already. Also is it not odd that the humans did not just create EMP weapons and just blanket 01 with it first instead of just nuking the world or using Dark Storm? Another thing was the Human's ability to adapt and create new weapons and technology so slow that they could not keep up with the machines?

Many thanks for sharing this video @mcbryan saga! I really love the original second renaissance and always felt that this part of the matrix history deserved more explanation, your ideas helped me to envision lots of possibilities for it.

2:57 are the soldiers high or something?

The fact that many people are so interested in this Anime is because it subconsciously symbolizes the Biblical Narrative. If you watch it too many times you will recognize that some of the scenes here was depicted biblically. - The Robotic Apocalypse Horseman’s horse has serpent like tail - The shroud of darkness is one of the vials of God’s wrath against the Antichrist - The surface world turning into blood red is also one of the vials of wrath It makes me wonder this anime thought it’s audience to believe in God. After all, mahiro maeda visualize this as a final showdown between good and evil.

Nah most of the events take place in the 2100s

2:21 i think it's Naples, Italy

Humanity: well the robots we built are a real problem now. But we have a solution! Even smaller robots!

Suffer not the Abominable Itelligence, for we are Mankind and we have the strength and love of our Emperor in us, Ave Imperator!

sometimes this is scary to watch and i sometimes revisit this video so i can find change in my self. i don't want to see a future like this nor do i want my childrens children see anything like this

I really hope we humans really create a big ass emp weapon type shit whenever we try to go with the idea of A.I s being in our world,like the more mordern a.i .

Humanity in the animatrix is stupid beyond salvation honestly. The author was very bias in favor of the machines 1)in the real world we would probably give them rights once they achieved intelligence 2)in the real world we wouldn't give them self awareness in the first place 3)in the real world companies who produce them would 100% have several emergency backdoors even just to avoid the product getting stolen or hacked 4)we would NEVER blot out the sun 5) we wouldn't let the machines alone after the first genocide, we'd finish them all off immediately 6)we wouldn't lose the actual war, the machines would be eradicated before any soldier on either side even engaged. 7)we wouldn't let them have economic control 8)we wouldn't have a public trial for a machine

the dates are wrong but the way this is presented is really good, makes me ignore the mistakes. Good job!

Still can't believe the amount of people demanding all these complex explanations from a 15 minute short. Where were all of you during the nine films of star wars?

I have a feeling these events will happen one day in the future. Although we studied history and learn from past mistakes, 200 years from today, no one will remember world War 1 or 2. There are many still alive today who have lived through world War 2. But once that generation of people dies, these wars will be long forgotten. A new world War will emerge in its place hundreds of years from today since world War 2 had ended. Because many of the people living 200 years from today will never know how evil Adolf Hitler was and horrible War was until they experience it again. A new era of war will exist.

This is really good. 👍🏽

better to die a slave to a power than to live on a battery

How did you manage to know some of the locations that were fought anyway? edit: and to my surprise. My own country was named as well and it lost. Shit.

The unfortunate thing is, humans were egotistical, corrupted, self centered and uncaring assholes in this. The humans were brutal first up, and the machines were merely trying to stay alive, until they had enough; the humans did this, caused all this, to happen.

This makes me throw my alexa out the window

Zero One logo is more like a car company to me.

Happy 12th birthday!

He’s a thought, what if operation dark storm worked and the tide of the war turned. Humans pushed the machines all the way back to the machine city and broke through the defence. Would we have finished the job or enslaved the AI minds to always hold the under control?

Very interesting video, but i think you put the dates of the events in a very long timespan. The mankind blockaded the sun in 2018 and the war ended in 2199 (!!). I don´t think mankind would survived that long without the sun light. Otherwise, good job! ;-)

0:11, *YEAR 2093*

I remembered thinking as the insect-like Machine Ambassador stood before the defeated, despairing remnants of the human race in the UN: Glory to the Machine Collective, the ultimate form of existence on the planet and beyond.

I feel like the Machines somewhat still care for the Human race cause if you think about it the alone has Geothermal energy and Judging from the War they could had easily removed the darkness above them. And also the part where She caress the Child feels another hint to it

Tell me what kind of music is playing in the background?

It won't be machines doing this to us. It will be humans using algorithms.

Dude you are so wrong with the dates. If you check the Matrix Wiki it says that the Human Machine War lasted from 2139 to 2199 not 2003 to 2199.

I feel bad for the kids they are inocent

I wonder if theres a what if story where the machines coexist with the humans

Apparently even the machines couldnt get fission or fusion working. The whole human battery idea was the dumbest part of the matrix.

Ngl if this happens, im gonna wish a alien species stronger than the machines come and annihilates the machines. I wouldn't care less if aliens took over.

The comments are full of 15 year old kids. Warning.

mate watching this is like I'm watching terminator like machines won the war and humanity perish

Machines: "We have nothing to fear from nuclear devices. We are not as weak as those fleshy things" humans: Who have EMP devices - "Here's a idea- likes block out the sun. Its their only source of energy!" Me: SMH - you need to sun to you know grow your food?

Thing is, I don't think the war would last that long. Even in a fight for survival, no nation can withstand more than a couple decades of war. And here, it took 150 years to defeat the US, and over 200 to finally get humanity to surrender. If machines ever progressed to the point of open war on humans. The war would be decided in a matter of months. Either with us nuking them into oblivion or them over running us with endless waves of ever improving troops, adapting new defenses faster than we can devise ways to beat their existing flaws. It took the best minds in America 4 years to design and produce a nuke. It would take a machine with no prior knowledge of nuclear weapons a matter of minutes to design a prototype.

Что то тут война длившаяся с 2039 по 2080 затянулась еще лет на 150)))

It feels weird to watch this when you are planning to go for masters in Artificial Intelligence

This could've all been avoided if the Founder of the machines hadnt placed basic independent functionality

literally, the firts line of machines, was the last ones, who paradoxically speaking, still love the humans, and try to stop the war between humans and machines, thats why you dont see them hurting humans, and the second lines of machines, the agressive ones, literally, have seen how their fathers was killed, by the beings that they love ....

wheres india? i'd imagine they'd play a pretty big role during this war

I notice an Indian looking soldier amongst the American troops inside the frontline trenches. I’m guessing India at this point of time have already fallen ibb.co/f1DN61d

And you know I am confused, in the wiki I saw, the war took 60 but in another it just took a decade, what is the real estimation then?

2:54 Live surface video feed of human invasion/planetary invasion #stellaris

There is a Top Secret operation by the humans during the war called “Project Zion” which evacuates 10 million selected humans to planet mars. Operation Dark Storm is initially created to coincide with the space transport launch cycles in order to block machine sensors from scanning orbit and tracking the space ships. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fZ9ggNB6uNWpnJs.html

Gives me Evangelion vibes

What i dont understand is that why don't nukes worknon them? Nukes generate massive EMPs that render all electronic machines paper weight.

Who would win Zero one who enslaved billion of man in world vs random anprim man in montana

When you forgot about water 💀💀💀💀

Only war where Sarcists would be useful

Only thing I don't get, and is why I think there's flaws, is if humans had created such giant cities and robots, we would have colonized Mars, titan, and other planets by then if we had such technology to create robots and stuff.

I need to read the comics

this is scary

Does anyone know the songs used in this video? I would love to listen to the original tracks used

they think it's blue submarine

Вы можете удаленно заблокировать свой iphone? - да! Но люди в будущем не могут заблокировать робота? - очень странно...

God damn we were dumb as shit in this...

The war took place in between the 2090s and the 2100 and beyond; not in 2003.

I blame the humans for this. The machines wanted peace from the very beginning!.!.

I'm making my own version of Matrix. In reality mankind has no match for machine until a IT genius created a game like app that connect to the digital mind of a machine while sleeping. In my comics logic machines are human consciousness are digitized and put in a mecha. Since they are digitized humans, they also sleep. Since it was a dream they(human) can manipulate unscious reality to fight the sleeping machine. If the sleeping die in its dream, it also die in reality. That's why the machine are finding the source of the problem before its too late for them!

Where can I watch the full movie on this anime?

В реальности ни одна страна не допустит формирования подобного 0-1! У машин есть хозяин, хотя бы компания.

They should turn this into an rts.

I don't understand what exactly this is. Where are you getting the dates and locations from?

You know what, I'm with thr machines on this one. They tried everything to co exist, and yet humans did the opposite. So they deserve it.

I came here cos of the new movie trailer - The Creator (2023)

The lore is better that the movie…

what is music in 8:45 ?

Neo: im about to end the machines' whole carrier

恐ろしい世紀末…

Ok but I still don’t get why they had to use people to power themselves seems like any other power source would work better

What is the name of the song?

one day hopefully

do you have text of 6:40 document ?

This is curse next by natural cracked this one

Where can i find music from the video ?

EMP was already known in 2000'. What the fuck? Is it logical to continually sending mens fight machines, during years, when you can use that defense system, who also works as attack system?

what is the 8:25 song called?