Next is a flashback courtesy of the stereotypical tough guy, Borges, who seems to alternate between being Hispanic or white with each new segment. Its only flaw would be the extremely slow first half which is all talk and no tension. Stargate SG1's Christopher Judge masterfully portrays the broken man pushed over the edge of despair and desperation. It is done in a decent American-ish art style with good quality animation by Dong Woo Animation studio (Masters of the Universe 2002, Ultimate Avengers) and Tokyo Anime Award winner Tae Ho-Han (Africa a.F.r.I.c.A). First up is the mentally unstable token big black man, Kuttner, who suffers from hallucinations of his dead daughter. For example, the strong willed Doctor Cho sees herself as this tall leggy hot babe in her flashback while Stross sees her, his extramarital girlfriend, as a manipulative slut with heavy make-up in his flashback. The different animation styles and slight inconsistencies actually work here as they represent the highly subjective and bias prone nature of personal recollection. THey each detail different parts of the doomed mission from the characters' individual point of views and it is up to the audience to piece it together for the whole story. The flashbacks too are of varying quality. It looks less like Appleseed and more like the worst episodes of Jimmy Neutron or Clone Wars. Movements are stiff and lifeless, hair looks like play-dough worms, clothing folds are non existent and the flat colors just make it all worse. While the rendering on spaceships and the Marine suits in the dark look quite good, the human characters set against the detail-less backgrounds look like they belong in the late 90s. The "present day" framing story footage is rendered in cel shaded CGI by South Korean "Digiart productions" and "Fx Gear studios", the company that made that cringe worthy "Shark Tale" ripoff called "Shark Bait". They are typical stock characters seen before in so many space based horror movies. The problem here is that unlike Dante's Inferno which had a central character that was developed over the course of the movie, Dead Space Aftermath has four central characters that remain one dimensional and wholly forgettable throughout. As each survivor reveals the horrific events that transpired on the O'Bannon, each of their flashbacks are rendered in four unique Korean animation styles from some of the teams that worked on Dante's Inferno: an Animated Epic. Within, they find a hell house of mutilated horrors only four survivors who are promptly captured and taken for interrogation. Contact is lost with the O'Bannon until it is rescued by a team of space marines. This is a cover for their true mission of retrieving fragments of an alien artifact presumed destroyed in the first game. Set after the events of Dead Space 1, The USS O'Bannon is sent to the planet Aegis VII to prevent it from destabilizing. While Dead Space downfall was not exactly an animation Masterpiece, Dead Space Aftermath takes it all down a notch. Dead space Aftermath is a loose prequel to Dead Space 2 that utilizes the "animatrix technique" of having different animation studios do different segments of the show. This time, they have gone back to the "Dead Space" Franchise and crafted yet another prequel similar to their prior work on the prequel to Dead Space 1 called "Dead Space Downfall".
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