Botching

The scouts

A heist premise that flips the script—instead of stealing from humans, you're corrupting the machines that replaced them, which is deliciously perverse in ways most sci-fi shorts are too polite to explore. Williams takes the expected corporate-dystopia setup and twists it into something genuinely uncomfortable about complicity and sabotage.

The animation sustains a disciplined noir register that recalls early motion-capture work and cyberpunk lineage, though the execution feels rushed where it should breathe—editing that prioritizes plot momentum over the visual composition that might have elevated this into something more formally considered.

The specific constraint here is the animation style itself, which opts for flat, almost lo-fi character work instead of slick futurism, and that humble aesthetic choice makes the hacking sequences feel more tactile and genuinely transgressive than polished rendering ever could.