The Line brings us a prime example of the Mandala Effect in the animated title sequence for Super Turbo Atomic Ninja Rabbit, an 80’s anime TV show that never was.

This was actually done a whole ten years ago, and it’s just as cool now as it was then. And frankly, I’d binge watch the whole thing if I found it on Netflix.

Created and directed by The Line’s Wesley Louis, the short film was created to showcase the talents and abilities of the artists and creators at The Line animation studio. It was based on a comic he drew when he was 13. He found the comic stuffed into the back of an old folder in 2013. It was only ten pages, unfinished, and slightly ravaged by time, but it perfectly captured all the joys and obsessions of a 13 year old child of the 90’s. Desert chrome, speedlines, ninjas, saturday morning cartoons, it was all there. It had been the blueprint for his career as an artist.

You can find out more about the project at The Line Studio’s page on it. There you can learn about the character design, the animation, storyboarding, compositing, and all the theoretical history of an amazing 90’s series that existed only in Wes’ imagination. There was even a VR experience based on it made in 2015 (sadly no longer available).

The 21st century, now a fourth over already, still beckons. With the imagination and ingenuity of folks like The Line Studios and of Wes Louis, what wonders await?