Geekery: Short Film – Tears of Steel

This open source short tries to save the world from a bunch of killer robots.

This 2012 short was directed and written by Ian Hubert, and created with crowd-funding by users of the open source 3D creation tool Blender.

A group of warriors and scientists gather in the “Oude Kerk” in Amsterdam to re-create an important event from the past, in an attempt to rescue the world from robots bent on destruction. Will they succeed?

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Author: Mars Garrett

Pop culture writer and news editor that has been on the BoLS team since 2010. Contributor on the One of Us podcast. Marvel, Batman, and dystopian sci-fi fan. Enjoys bad movies, LEGO Technic, and the internet. Hates rom-coms. (she/they)