Interface: Our Horrifying Digital Afterlife

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A fever dream, a familiar reality, a place where ghosts are consumed and the future and past flow into each other... welcome to the psychedelic world of Justin Tomchuk's Interface.

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• Kathryn Healy — Researcher & Writer

[thatoneweirdguy]

"the old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born. now is the time of monsters."

[vonathenbrod]

"I can barely explain this"
> Proceeds to give me a pretty great understanding of this fictional world

[arson_carson]

Tale foundry finally found UMAMI and I couldn't be happier

[OctyabrAprelya]

A small sad story:
As the series was being completed it (2019) I've saved an old CRT tv and an old computer with a S-Video output to connect them, and watch the series in its full analog glory.
By the time the series was finished, my mom mistaken the tv for trash, threw it away.

[palecaptainwolfkayls]

Something that plays into the mention of these creatures’ being myths and ghosts, it is worth mentioning that Mischief’s origin describes a known modern myth, called the 1943 Philadelphia Experiment. It was a successful attempt to teleport a vessel, but it resulted in an undesired destination, and the gruesome casualties of the crew.

[bavettesAstartes]

ENA and UMAMI are the remnants of that weird Newgrounds era of experimental videos and series. And I am all for it. There are many others too, who defy normal convention. Cat Soup, Psychicpebbles, Noodle and Bun, and many more I can't remember the name of but I will never forget the animation styles and stories.

[agustinulricheuriel]

I loved this series and overanalyzing what each detail meant. I didnt get to understand it but I got a profound and deep love for the weird and gritty becauss of it. Also a love for the clown aesthetic.

[JankyBruv]

Umami has a refreshingly unique style. Highly underrated.

[monke_.]

Yknow, I feel like the quote “Perhaps, this is hell.” From signalis fits perfectly with the interface

[edvfya]

Fuck yeah! Interface...so underappreciated imo.

[mimicalCreature]

Yeah, Interface is fucking amazing. Been watching the series since it's start and I hope Umami continues doing awesome stuff like this.

[dinozilla]

That why I love watching your channel, each time that I opened talr foundry I find something new, thought provoking

[Drawrandom]

Dear tale bot, can you please make a video about time loops? (Like "groundhog Day" "before i fall" and "the forgotten city") I would love to hear your thoughts on this subject. Love your videos ❤️!

[leperface]

I love when two of my favorite channels collide. I clicked on Umami thinking it was a meme and spent the entire time with my jaw on the floor.

[floatingfroggy]

YouTube has some excellent, wacky, outlandish animated series. From analog horror to this web series, there's so much originality.

[lukestarkiller]

I’m really happy to see this series get more appreciation and exposure to new audiences. It’s one of the most amazing things I’ve ever watched. While Justin Tomchuck isn’t particularly great at drawing people (at least at the beginning of the series) he still manages to create some of the greatest art I’ve seen in my life, with lots of references to different classical and surrealist paintings and some really amazing music to go with it. He also continues to get better and better at drawing and animating and incorporating 3D visuals in his 2D worlds, and he’s got a new series called Safe Mode that’s still ongoing and is sort of a spiritual successor to Interface which takes place inside the interface. Definitely cannot recommend his work enough. It’s surreal, funny, beautiful, and everything in between.

[EverTheFractal]

YES UMAMI! Interface really messed with me in the best way, genuinely beautiful. I adore art like this

[iMRyan]

Thank You! This is Criminally Underrated.

[ohraisins]

I love the use of classic surrealist paintings in this. Great essay again! Thank you.

[zeliardforty-two]

Interesting take on the paradigm shift! Not sure if anyone gets the reference about the ship. It actually might be a reference to an old movie “The Philadelphia Experiment” in where an experiment displaces a ship in time. It was also a reference in an SCP article “SCP-595” based on the same idea. I’m sure it all might be based on secret government experiment conspiracy theories, but it’s cool to see a different take on the idea. Instead of teleportation, this ship goes for electromagnetic manipulation for stealth. The results are about the same. The ship gets teleported randomly, a couple of people survived, some crewmen fused with the ship or changed, and the world is altered

Pretty cool take on the idea!