LIFE AFTER BOB - PRESS KIT
Ian Cheng’s Life After BOB is an episodic anime series built in the Unity game engine and presented live in real-time.

TAGLINE
What if an AI could do the job of living your life better than you?

LOGLINE
A reclusive inventor – infamous for installing an experimental AI entity into the mind of his 10-year-old daughter – faces public pressure to prove that a satisfying life can be programmed.

SYNOPSIS
Neural engineer Dr. Wong has installed an experimental AI named BOB (“Bag of Beliefs”) into the nervous system of his 10-year-old daughter Chalice. Designed to guide Chalice through the challenges of growing up in a volatile world, BOB confronts more and more of the conflicts in Chalice’s life on her behalf. As Dr. Wong begins to favor the BOB side of his daughter, and as BOB threatens to do the job of living Chalice’s life better than she can, Chalice wonders: what is left for her classic human self to do?

TRAILER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCc2djR25hg

IMAGES
All images captioned Life After BOB: The Chalice Study, real-time story and simulation, 50min, color, sound, 2021-2022
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ANIMATED GIFs
All gifs captioned Life After BOB: The Chalice Study, real-time story and simulation, 50min, color, sound, 2021-2022
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