Aeon Flux - "War" (New Original Soundtrack and Sound Design)

[@MoonlightMothMedia]

This is one of my favorite of the shorts. I love how the "main character" just becomes whoever killed the last "main character".

[@kickinrocks6055]

It's a Bruce Lee parallel. Fight empty handed. Take the weapon of your fallen foe. Fight another. Take new weapon from newly fallen foe. Repeat. Maybe it was... enter the dragon? Dungeon prison break scene?

[@badlaamaurukehu]

Even the new audio?

[@loredanamassini9484]

@@kickinrocks6055 hi

[@loredanamassini9484]

@@kickinrocks6055 you Say Life s a WEAPON?

[@kickinrocks6055]

@@loredanamassini9484 no. I'm saying, know your roots. This scene is similar to a scene from Enter the Dragon with Bruce Lee. But it been translated in a way, to be original.

[@seanphillips2758]

My 6th grade math teacher was Ms. Chung, her brother wrote, drew and directed this masterpiece. Great to see it still getting love today!

[@Nikashi4021]

NOOOO WAYYYY FRRRR???

[@SmokesKwazukii]

@@Nikashi4021 he is lying im sorry

[@johnnyfountainS]

Peter Chung.

[@kanikama9579]

Oh the Chung from the Chung..

[@PrvnCoke]

​@@SmokesKwazukii hes telling the truth, my boss was big chungus he was the father of them and would always talk about his kids

[@idesmarch1]

This is the perfect representation of my thoughts years ago. How many amazing crazy stories have never been told from war, because the person ultimately dies.

[@SageLakshmi]

History is always narrated by the victor

[@joshuamartin4349]

The animation's point isn't "good war stories," it's peoples' life stories ended by war.

[@UniquelyAwful]

@@joshuamartin4349idk only 2(?) of the characters who died had some life story shown. Seems subjective to me !

[@ozymandiasramesses1773]

@@UniquelyAwful Idk the first lady seemed to know a lot about how to use that tounge. Seems like a story there to me.

[@EatDatBitchAwp]

@SageLakshmi only retards believe this notion, just say your an idiot and don’t know how to do proper reasearch🤷🏽‍♂️

[@sethleoric2598]

I personally love how the first guy is literally just zome random grunt,i feel like the other characters mostly have some quirk to them, like one is a ninja swordmaster and another one is a commando valkyrie lady, yet the first guy is literally just some random fodder who woke up and said "fuck it, we ball"

[@potatochipjenkins]

I forgot how fucking WILD this show was. I couldn’t look away 😵‍💫

[@redsun9261]

You can watch episode at 0.5x speed and it don't get boring. A very fast action yet so many details!

[@TheDragonfriday]

This a TV show what?

[@potatochipjenkins]

@ Yeah, it was on MTV back in the day. (During the 90s, I believe)

[@misterturkturkle]

Name of show was Aeon Flux

[@johnvonachen1672]

Someone puts their hand on your shoulder and says, "Son. We want you to make an animation. 5 minutes. You can do anything you want. No rules. Complete creative control." What a golden moment that was for Peter Chung.

[@josephgover5072]

Apparently using your tongue to distract people has no effect in battle.

[@austinharvey7644]

Who'da thunk?

[@Zapp__Brannigan]

She uses her feet to much greater success in later episodes.

[@chrisivan_yt]

woman moment

[@Tropers_911]

Yeah it's a bit weird and the guy is very weird he died with one stab of a katana he thought it would be easy😂

[@bunberrier]

It works in a classroom setting though

[@oneunfunnyguy612]

Aeon just dying and the soldier shooting the guy behind him is a really smart way to subvert expectations, especially after such a long build up

[@justwannabehappy6735]

In war, there's no protagonist. Only a serie of future corpses.

[@93003ayo]

I call it the protagonist shuffle

[@larrylovehandle8472]

Wrong. There were four war heroes in this short, each would have gotten the equivalent of the congressional Medal of Honor, and having heroes such as this is key for the success of any army.

[@xxxshowxxxstopperxxx]

his point was that all of the people who think of themselves of good guys are only good to their prespective, war is not fought for good and evil and cannot be because good and evil are subjective and immaterial.

[@larrylovehandle8472]

luke w. It's not about being "good" per se, but about defending your people, your homeland, and your way of life. By that measure, both sides could be considered good.

[@ScottJarreau]

That’s the purest explanation of this episode that I’ve come across 🤯🤯🤯

[@PhanFanMan]

This is the kind of weird ass shit I expect to see from early 90’s animation. Like my god I have no idea what’s going on or why but I’m entertained regardless.

[@lostree1981]

its pretty simple what's going on. What's wrong with your critical thinking?

[@misterturkturkle]

This was adapted to more later, but it was largely just a young artist flexing when it was first made.

[@johnyesjustjohn]

The Law of Conservation of Ninjitsu is in full effect: one cool guy can kill a thousand, a thousand cool guys can't hit the broad side of a barn.

[@dimviesel]

.....

[@zalandercalander]

What?

[@platypuslord2399]

@@zalandercalander The Law of Conservation of Ninjitsu is in full effect: one cool guy can kill a thousand, a thousand cool guys can't hit the broad side of a barn.

[@vrindasugandhi1646]

@@platypuslord2399 can you explain the last line please?

[@tyrannicalchocolate]

@@vrindasugandhi1646 it’s a reference to how in fiction the greater the number of enemies you face, the easier it is to kill loads of them, but when you face one enemy, even if he’s the same as the group, because it’s just one guy he’s much harder to kill - if 100 ninjas attack an enemy they will be shown as dying in droves, but if just one ninja attacks the same position he will be able to dodge all bullets. Aeon Flux is playing with this idea in this video by regularly swapping the numbers of enemies back and forth, to the point it becomes noticeable and distracting.

[@brettwyatt7165]

massive nostalgia hit ... I remember seeing this when I was in my teens ... I remember the tongue ... and I didn't think they would get killed but they did

[@voli6570]

War.

[@badlaamaurukehu]

And yet you never saw the original. Live. Just this dub. Sad. :(

[@chrisivan_yt]

supa hot

[@peterbuckley1310]

She

[@roshinobi]

Perfect illustration of the Law of Conservation of Ninjutsu.

[@Finarvas]

3:16 that giddy jump lol

[@ВасяПетечкин-ф7л]

Finarvas hah

[@JM-lf4ws]

I thought I was the only one to see that!

[@oliveryt7168]

​@@JM-lf4wsRiightt.. you're a very special human being... nobody could see it but you..🙄

[@JM-lf4ws]

@@oliveryt7168 Everyone says I'm Special! I'm Giddy Jumping right Now!

[@LibertyandFreedom4]

Ah when MTV was entertaining and Liquid Television was cutting edge.

[@Velo.Muerto]

I will die on the hill that Peter Chung should do an animated adaptation of Dune using Moebius's original designs for the Jodorowsky project.

[@JohnDoe-lb2hp]

The world is not ready.

[@СергейСкворцов-т9и]

Если при этом разработчиком дизайна локаций поставить Тсутому Нихея, дизайнером персонажей - Татьяну "Octane" Бойко, а автором сценария - Кимо Леметти , то на месте студии появится маленькая такая сингулярность и весь мир туда провалится))))

[@horacegentleman3296]

Genius

[@jonathandecker3183]

In a world, where leotards and submachine guns rule the earth, two factions of anorexia patients battle it out for earth's last remaining stash of dieting pills.

[@Old_Guard2]

This

[@kaiserwigglesiii2369]

This killed me

[@Mr-Ad-196]

This...........is...............good

[@thomasraahauge5231]

at least they are not running out of ammo . . .

[@MrRodQ]

You're a funny man Decker. Seriously tho 😂😂😂

[@drlev7432]

More than the music itself I really admire the sounds of the gunshots, sword slashes, and especially the knives thrown into the throat part. Really well done man

[@badlaamaurukehu]

The Welhelm Screams... Sure.

[@badlaamaurukehu]

They think you did it! Lol! Pain.

[@alalvarez7301]

@@badlaamaurukehu I love how nobody paid attention to you and the only like came from yourself awwww failed troll sad? lol

[@metalgrimm]

1:12 the guy probably scared the fuck out of her because she can produce electric guitar sound from her mouth

[@gogotimeneverstop]

I laughed at it a lot.

[@wynfrithnichtwo8423]

During the blackouts we just went through because of the winter storm. I watched all of Aeon Flux on UMD on my PSP. Was happy as could be hiding under my wool blankets watching the entire series, including pilot and shorts, plus seasons 1 and 2. I had not watched this in a very long time.

[@Hchris101]

The ultimate media device

[@olympian3]

umd is like the holy grail of media format

[@hanchiman]

I guess this episode is pointlessness of war, not to mention there are no heroes in it the moment you die, you just die and become forgotten in the battlefield.

[@kavijackson868]

EXACTLY!!! You get it!!!

[@kudosbudo]

Cept you remember every single one

[@tactknightgaming2066]

What are video recordings? What are photos? What are journals? You act as if men in trenches never wrote anything down. This is why idiots like you can't rub two brain cells together.

[@MajorCoolD]

@@kudosbudo But only if SOMEONE lives to tell the tale and was present.

[@midshipman8654]

I completely disagree. because there is a war that means there is a lot of points for that war, or else they wouldnt do it in the first place. if anything, I think it shows the exact opposite. The fact that you are engaging in a war means you actually HAVE points worth possibly dieing for. what will you risk unto death? love? family? duty? Here we see a little of the different reasons WHY someone goes to war. and you arent the only obedient WITH a point.

[@emogirl89allup]

I thought the Aeon Flux main lady was suppose to be the main character, dead in the beginning lol I guess the show isn't driven by one character but the by each persons journey. i don't know...

[@postshift19]

Aeon Flux dies or is captured by the enemy every episode, but yeah, this is the only one where she dies early on and most of the episode isn't about her.

[@rampant1apart]

She died so many times and she's back next episode and they never explained it ever, haha.

[@Orange_Swirl]

@@rampant1apart The episodes she dies in are intended to be more of episodic what-if scenarios.

[@Tigerman1138]

This was a movie, early short. She is just a small character in this movie.

[@MahouHomo]

@@postshift19 In either season 1 or 2, when the episodes were still mostly shorts, it shows a Monican agent looking at a list of Aeons, implying she (at least in the shorts) was just an army of clones.

[@dah_goofster]

The plot armor is only strong until the next guy with plot armor comes along 💀 this has “named marine” vibes

[@JonasPolsky]

I think the world of "Aeon Flux" could be described as "Joint Punk", with its fascination and focus on joints and how objects connect.

[@njnjhjh8918]

and not just objects, the people and events

[@badlaamaurukehu]

Why isn't that simply just another Neuromancer?

[@sirgraveson4568]

_When the admin enable infinite ammo on the server_

[@LittleMissSunshine721]

This was very, very good. Felt like I watched a hour and a half movie in five minutes.

[@4luc42d]

The legend of plot armor. If you kill the one with plot armor you gain the plot armor.

[@austynrose2286]

I can’t remember where I originally saw this but for about a year+ I’ve been trying to find it and I’m so happy to have found it again.

[@jonathantan2469]

This is basically a large Capture the Flag multiplayer map with hundreds on each side...

[@Balrog4242]

This might be my single favorite short animation sequence of all time.

[@mooncrime4998]

I actually kind of love the sound design of the weapons. It feels almost deliberately light, unsatisfying, anticlimactic even. It's like it reinforces the theme that as easily as one person can cut down dozens, they too can be slain unceremoniously and without warning.

[@cerumen]

@@mooncrime4998 I love this interpretation! I wish I could say it was so deliberate. They do a similar thing in video game sfx - the player’s weapons are made to sound more dramatic than enemy fire, etc. - could’ve exploited that when the protagonist swaps! Sadly in this case it was just very hard to create impactful 100%-from-scratch sfx for something this mad when I’d never done foley, sfx design or writing an original score before. Nice to know it produced unintentionally appropriate results though!

[@T-Jex]

2:29 when you watch raiders of the lost ark too many times

[@thedarkmaster4747]

lol!

[@Mr-Ad-196]

But the opposite happened

[@rumtastic]

@@Mr-Ad-196 THATSTHEJOKE.JPEG THANKS FOR THE INCREDIBLE INSIGHT

[@claudiafinelle7252]

I used to love this show. the movie didn't do it justice.

[@ZacHawkins42]

Claudia Finelle Agreed, now let us never speak of that abomination again.

[@tsopmocful1958]

Claudia Finelle Understatement.

[@ryanhawe8234]

Well, Kusama's movie was a PG-13 linear narrative, so it couldn't help but be very different from what had come before -- but I do believe the essence of Aeon is in the film, and said film reminds us of what made her different from visual homages that came later such as Selene or Trinity.

[@cannibaletiquette5038]

u sumbitch, we dont talk bout dat roun these parts. wheel do to u wut we did charlize therons career less u shut dat mouth. it nevr hapun, got it!

[@-C.S.R]

I’ve thought about this more than a few times since I was a kid. Haven’t seen it since then! Still doesn’t disappoint, so ahead of its time that was!

[@coryosborn]

Phenomenal sound design here. Makes it feel real.

[@BlazingOwnager]

I love how the cliche scene to lure him into not shooting ends in the worst possible way.

[@mikidymike359]

Excellent job with the music. I like how it switches theme and instruments depending on the situation,character and the "feel" that a certain scene has. Keep up the good work

[@thezec]

1:54 almost pissed myself laughing when I saw this for the first time

[@derpingolatrouse]

Watch the part where the swordsman gets shot in x.25 speed. There's 3 frames that are brutal as fk.

[@Calc_Ulator]

You know on PC if you pause use , for rewind and . for forward. Just FYI

[@derpingolatrouse]

@@Calc_Ulator thank you sir, this is very useful

[@mikidymike359]

Saw this 2 years ago and I still come back to it

[@Producelikeapro]

Great work on the music!!

[@cerumen]

+Produce Like A Pro Thank you!

[@maxolack8753]

With the decline of traditional hand drawn animation and cell art, it really pains me knowing that the effort and time and sweat in tears won't go into another show that will ever be quite like this one was. I know most anime traditionally was grueling and unfathomably torturous to make. I know that a lot of people will never know the lengths that people went to to get a show out, but I have so much respect for the people that had the vision in the raw push to keep going so that stories and shows like this could be made.

[@JVncnt-mi9lf]

...Amongst the masterpieces in my life.

[@jsalaska2854]

Ahhh back in the 80s when guns had unlimited capacity, penetration and the hero didn’t have to aim. I miss them glory days

[@seanyoung9014]

Man I have been looking for this FOREVER and didn't know the name, just that it was Aeon Flux. I haven't seen this since it originally aired on MTV.

[@ВалерийБелянкин-г7к]

Аааафигеть, это самый странный и самый прекрасный мульт о войне, что я видел! А звуковой ряд! это отдельный шедевр!!!😳🙄

[@Wahinies]

My introduction was on MTV Liquid Television. So began my love for desolate, harrowing animated content. Peter has such a unique style that melds well with sci fi

[@jamesremington8056]

his hair is so epic his helmet cannot damage his quaff.

[@fun-with-purpose1436]

The original music is still better, operatic and less Hollywood cliche. Made the story flow with less partial interruptions. But I love the people are loving Peter Chung

[@adventurous3641]

This is really quite beautiful, well done!

[@sethleoric2598]

Love how Flux just friggin dies within the first few minutes, in fact, she dies a lot in these earlier shorts.

[@dustybunny6716]

I remember seeing this as a child years ago. Changed my view on cartoons forever.

[@eastweymouthchris]

Aeon FLux may have been the last cool thing that ever appeared on MTV

[@therealdonaldtrumpjr]

The Maxx was after

[@Maxphyspage]

@@therealdonaldtrumpjr Came to say the same

[@dutchcapo]

This is an actual fact

[@wowalamoiz9489]

Gorillaz MTV cribs?

[@disconnectedt.v2516]

0:27 he knew what he was doing

[@absolutedamage7976]

Oh hell yeah who's won't?!!!!

[@noeyesnocartoons160]

Cool style. Lovely. Reminds ghost in the Shell

[@nikitayutkin7479]

90s animation is awesome! I love internet for giving me gems like this one

[@123Four-l9w]

30 years later I finally got to see this. To much shooting

[@havedrill1]

i loved this animation. the music is kind of different than i remembered

[@EvanMcNeeley]

...this is the episode that hooked me on the show... the progression of one beating another then beaten, then that one being killed (and so on) was such a visual feat (and untraditional storyline) at the time (and for me to wrap my brain around in 1992).

[@Cocoricky1254]

This is Prefect🎉😊Coolest women's fighter ever❤

[@jakechapman3161]

This feels like my figurines being brought to life with my kid imagination. I love this.

[@aaronjanson5645]

I stayed up so late just to catch these on MTV... back when the world was normal.

[@anhthiensaigon]

isn't the second main character (from 1:20) just... David Bowie??

[@fawkes9370]

The less you wear the greater will your protection be.

[@Le_Rappel_des_oiseaux]

Oh man, this is cool! I especially liked the character "Oil Puddle"

[@lonelylad9818]

They really put a lot of detail into that lady's... appearance...

[@Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P]

DO You KNOW........How M A N Y (B) YEARS (B) it has been looking for this particular episode....... The beginning shots of Aeon Flux where she gets the rifle ( with UnLimited number of bullets ) shot out of her hands and the enemy troop shoots her - turns around quickly - to shoot the Other guy!!!! Many, MANY years!!! Thanks for the posting........now I can Rest!!! 😉

[@deadinside777]

I remember watching this as a kid. I had seen a couple episodes before and watching Aeon Flux get killed off near the start really caught me off-guard.

[@fourze6113]

OMG I FOUND IT AT LAST AND IT WAS IN MY RECOMMENDATIONS

[@JuanRojas-vp6fw]

ME ENCANTA ESTA SERIE, LA QUIETO VER COMPLERA,GRACIAS 😂😂😂😂😂🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

[@troygaspard6732]

On another level, extremely choreographed violence.

[@Ur_Local_Troll]

Old videos, good memories and video 👏🏼

[@Wilson-0077]

You can be a goat, but there's always someone better and more lucky than you. Also, never underestimate your enemy.

[@adeptusspark]

No se que es lo que acabo de ver, pero es en mi opinión una obra maestra

[@kavijackson868]

THIS IS ASTONISHING!!! EAT YOUR HEART OUT GAME OF THRONE$!!!

[@NP-ek7dl]

Way ahead of its time ! Peter Chung you were a visionary

[@stevengreen9536]

One of my favorite episodes. :)

[@ceciljohnrhodes4987]

I first saw this thirty four years ago goofed up so never knew what it was called, many thanks to the poster.

[@lebendigesgespenst7669]

Thank you for introducing me to this, and honestly good job on the sound design

[@brunocesarcerqueira2525]

Aeon Flux is so weird. But cool. They have something from the 90s, and watching it only now I feel like I'm going back to that time to watch it. It's a strange nostalgia because I didn't watch it in the 90s. I was a child at the time.

[@ouchy003]

3:31 Dayum that plot armor was so thick that everyone in the room was uncomfortable

[@adisappointedfbiagent449]

This did *NOT* go where I was expecting it to

[@VKDM8687]

Wait....YOU did this music? How--what program did you use? You are very talented! GREAT work!

[@danielalbertogomezcaiceros2952]

how diferent would it had been if DC Would it use and artist like this one for the killing joke, i think that this kind of animation improves the madness that alan moore shows in the comic

[@larrylovehandle8472]

Daniel Alberto Gomez Caiceros Brian bolland is stiff as a board.

[@vginsprdsobepr9698]

1:25 Dead mother still holding her lifeless baby. This anime was so up in your face it was just amazing.

[@cbatbh5402]

I love the ending because you just know she's going to slip on the oil and the perspective will shift again, and on and on and on.

[@theemperor5321]

The Great Twink War

[@thENDweDIE]

Man...(& woman) I remember this!! It blew me t f away back in the 90's...lulz I watched it when MTV was still somewhat MTV... It was so different so impacting...light years beyond anythingand ages ahead of its time!!! xD

[@M-E-G-A]

It’s sounds a little less violent.

[@musicvideosEM220]

Dude this is Magistral!

[@patchesconway5957]

Classic Mtv when music still mattered, today this would be A new hit on t.v, Mtv.

[@hertzollner]

When I saw this in the 90s it blew my mind.

[@katalepsykills]

Oh shit. This was so amazing.

[@katalepsykills]

I used to think about these shorts all the time.

[@savasolarov8424]

I love the music added .!!

[@heckinmemes6430]

Whatever happened with the oil slick? Did it become the next main character? This is going to bother me.

[@terciofelipeoliveirafrance2228]

1:14, damn this is no simp

[@Fentmaxxer3000]

Æon flux is a masterpiece

[@Velwol4ara]

Очень круто и неожиданные повороты событий....

[@johnhancock2574]

Any way to listen to the music? Its awesome

[@zacharyfindlay-maddox171]

I remember watching this on t.v. when it was brand new. First time I've seen this since 93 I think.