The Locker - Worm Animated Short

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This is a fan art project based on the web-serial 'Worm' by John "Wildbow" McCrae. This work claims no ownership of the characters or setting.

[maiaharlap]

Hi, this is Maia! I'm the VA for Taylor. Thanks for letting me be a part of this! It was a lot of fun and the end product is awesome. For those of you who enjoyed the voice acting, thank you so much! It means a lot to me and I hope you enjoy the full cast audiobook as well. Love y'all <3

[Hades_Space_Engineer]

I totally forgot that there was an Alexandria sticker on the locker. Now I remembered thar it was mentioned in the books and I'm feeling weirdly mindblown somehow because that gives it so much more character. Just remembering that at someday she carefully put that sticker there shows that it has a history and makes it feel much more real.

I also can't listen to the screams


And DAYUM that trigger vision is top notch really shows the worm

[Gatzlocke]

Imagine seeing massively scaled multidimensional beings beyond your reconning....and then just forgetting it.

It makes you wonder. What have I forgotten?

[Robinsong]

I adore the fact that the entities look like worms. Even after reading the book multiple times I always thought of the worm like form being something they had evolved beyond, but looking at this and thinking on the descriptions they are still worms!

[RappinPicard]

The first 30 seconds are extremely intense, but what’s with the blank footage after that?

[TheBlondVampyre]

The direction, the voice acting and especially the look of the trigger vision were all above and beyond any expectation. Your work is incredible.

[thomashoward]

On the one hand, this wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be.

On the other hand, seeing the locker incident in animated form just makes this scene so, so much worse.

[abaddonarts]

The visuals of the locker are TOP NOTCH. Like it looked almost entirely real. The fractals were super clear and even the far away one was high fidelity. Did we ever know if they were a specific color in the trigger visions? Like I always pictured them to be the corresponding colours of the Thinker and the Warrior, but the red shards also make sense because that's how shardspace was iirc. I almost expected to spot the Simurgh up there tbh 😅
Literally the only thing that wasn't entirely normal to me was the skin detail on Taylor when the vision starts, and how suddenly she stopped moving (like if she was thrashing there might be a bit of residual movement in the vision?) but that's just me nitpicking and probably the lighting in space.

Edit: the Alexandria sticker on the locker is a nice touch, it makes sense she'd have one.

[alexavalencia]

I love that Alexandria Who know that controlling bugs killed one of the strongest capes in the world in terms of physical power.

[LordPecka]

I do not know what Wildbow imagined visually when he was writing Worm, but you are Defining the visuals for me. This is my canon.

Also it is totally f*cked up thing to watch, lot more then to read. Urghh

Awesome!

[shandromand]

The creeping terror is really well done here. Even without context I bet people get what's going on in the first half. Excellent work!

[jagerkerrigan]

This is why I am glad fanfiction exists so not can we see her getting a better ending than canon but numerous ways on seeing the trio and everyone who enabled them get their due karma for this murder attempt with the "locker".

[moiramaink]

This looks fucking fantastic just like the previous stuff. Hope we get rage dragon Lung next or maybe Leviathan's approach on Brockton next.

[ShadowIsatis]

"We are all so very small in the end..."

[AzrielArcade]

Those girls have no idea what they’ve unleashed. Excellent work.

[GenghisKane]

I also appreciate the detail on the entities, how you can almost see the "shards" inside them. Its really amazing work

[nbrainjustvibes]

Chills. Particularly how you depicted the Entities...

[creonexile]

One day in many-many years we will see a serial version of the book, filmed by some top studio. If it's at least half as good as your works, it's kind of motivating thing for life.

[priyammishra]

The only time capitalised "Locker" didn't nake me cringe....
This was awesome and so are you
Jug jug jeeyo

[rjg]

One detail I really like is the sticker on Taylor's locker. I believe that's Alexandria, who Taylor is stated to have been a fan of when she was younger. It'd make sense she'd still have a sticker of her on the locker!