This article is about the series. You may be looking for the speciesMurder Drones is an Australian computer-animated science fiction comedy-horror web series created by American animator Liam Vickers, produced by Glitch Productions and funded by Screen Australia for GLITCH. It is set to be the fourth animated series (third if not counting Ultra Jump Mania, which has only received a pilot) by Glitch Productions, after Meta Runner, Ultra Jump Mania and Sunset Paradise.
The series was teased on June 26th, 2021, and announced on October 8th, along with the release of a trailer. The pilot premiered on October 29th and the remaining episodes are aimed for a late 2022 release.
After humanity caused its own extinction by blowing up Copper 9's exoplanet core, causing a winter apocalypse, robots known as Worker Drones start to roam around until a group of Murder Drones start to murder them for... reasons.
Production
Liam Vickers had previously achieved notoriety for the 2D animated series CliffSide and Internecion Cube, both of which are unfinished. When he was picked up by Glitch Productions to be a showrunner, he had no experience in 3D animation, so the company would train him. The series would be created in Unreal Engine.
On August 6th, Liam released the full version of "Disassembly Required", the song that plays in the teaser. The video description reveals the character seen in the teaser to be "V", one of the titular Murder Drones.
By the time the series was announced, it had been worked on for one year.
In February 18th, 2022, Glitch Productions announced the full series is in development now at the studio, with a glimpse of Uzi in a new, unknown location.
Characters
Protagonists
Uzi (voiced by Elsie Lovelock) is the main protagonist of the series.[1] She is a rebellious teenage worker drone.
Serial Designation N (voiced by Michael Kovach) is the deuteragonist of the series. He is a Murder Drone who befriends Uzi after being sent to destroy her and tries his best not to be useless.[2]
Antagonists
Serial Designation V (voiced by Nola Klop) is a sadistic and impulsive Murder Drone.[3] N has a secret crush on her.
Serial Designation J (voiced by Shara Kirby) is a Murder Drone and the opening antagonist, who is "the leader", described as a "lethal workaholic".[4]
Others
Khan (voiced by David J. Dixon) is Uzi's borderline abusive father, described as a "man with a plan".[5]
Thad (voiced by Sean Chiplock) is a robot with the behavior of a high-school jock.[6]
Murder Drones is a show about cute little robots that murder each other for reasons 💀☒
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Trivia
Unlike Meta Runner and Sunset Paradise, the show will last 8 episodes, including the pilot, and pushes into darker territory.[7]
Also, Murder Drones appears to be much more photorealistic than Meta Runner and Sunset Paradise.
AJ DiSpiritio has confirmed he will also do the soundtrack with Liam Vickers.[8]
This is the first GLITCH series to not be created by Luke or Kevin Lerdwichagul or any other Australian showrunner, instead being created by an American showrunner.
This is the first GLITCH series to not be headlined by an Australian voice actor or actress.
This series was inspired from 20th Century Studios film franchise, Alien created by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett.
According to LiamVickersAnimation: "I like to imagine the drones stole their hair (and any unique clothing items) from the countless dead humans lying around after the mining disaster. Fashion, babeeyyyyyy!!". [9]
N was originally going to be the only drone with any clothes - stealing them from dead humans just cuz they looked neat. However, it became clear clothing could "help differentiate all the drones while playing up their eerily human qualities. . . not that they get cold." [10]
V was originally meant to be more of a model toy - think Toys'R'Us battery powered nightmare bot. Her scale was increased as the story developed and it became clear she'd have to be killing things more in the human-sized range.
J's uniform isn't any more "official" than N or V's despite what she'd love you to think, she's just more of an insufferable tryhard.[1]
Videos
Murder Drones (Teaser)
Teaser trailer
MURDER DRONES -OFFICIAL TRAILER-
Official trailer
MURDER DRONES - "Nice Corpse House My Guy" (CLIP)
Clip from Pilot
MURDER DRONES - "MEET THE TEAM" (CLIP)
MEET THE TEAM
MURDER DRONES - Season 1 Teaser
Season 1 Teaser
Gallery
Teasers
Murder Drones Promotional Banner
Logo
V during the countdown to Murder Drones.
N during the countdown to Murder Drones.
Uzi during the countdown to Murder Drones.
Concept Arts
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Worker Drones
Early Screenshots
Early Classroom Screenshot
Early Ship Reveal Screenshot
Merchandise
Autographed poster
N plush
Uzi keyplush
V T-shirt
V plush
"I have absolutely no idea what's going on."
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