First Look: Amazon Studios’ "Touching Blue" Test Movie

First Look: Amazon Studios’ “Touching Blue” Test Movie

In Touching Blue, the title character can touch a thing and know where to find the person who last held it. But this gift comes at a cost: When Blue herself is touched, she feels pain. She is a “screamer.” And this is what she looks like in the test movie that Amazon Studios is commissioning for the award-winning script by Scott Mullen:

Blue by Oddbot

Oddbot, an Emmy-nominated animation studio whose work has appeared in such diverse settings as Playhouse Disney and Korn’s Evolution video, is creating Blue and her world.

The goal was to be “moody, but also stylized and interesting to watch,” said Oddbot founder Christopher Hamilton, who said they drew inspiration from a number of sources, including Emily the Strange and Shane Glines (Batman: The Animated Series and Batman Beyond). “These should be interesting, as opposed to straight-up storyboards,” or animatics that are just rough pencil on white. The backgrounds are simple yet graphic, with white for highlights, and “blue is a color that will essentially give us the mood that we need,” he said. “We love this style.”

Blue and bridge by Oddbot