The Animated Series
Eight people, one cargo ship, one shortcut – and after that, nothing goes to plan.
The Lifter-420 is a cargo ship. Its mission: haul freight between the stations, bring the crew home in one piece and, ideally, break nothing along the way. One asteroid field later, the ship is lying on a snow-covered planet, the crew is scattered across half the landscape in escape pods – and they are not alone down there.
On board: a captain who has everything under control (so he says), a cook whose muffins matter more than any alarm, and a ship's AI that calculates very precisely just how bad things are right now. The series is set in the world of our game – but you don't need to know it to laugh along.
From 26 September, a new episode every Wednesday and Saturday at 10:30 German time. The series is in German with German subtitles – YouTube can translate the subtitles automatically.
Season 1 – from 26 September
Season 2 – from 31 October
How we made the series
The series is a family project, just like the game. Justus and Marcel came up with the characters and the story, and Justus writes the scripts and dialogue. Verena drew the characters and defined the art style.
From these drawings, AI creates the pictures for the series. Many places are real places from our game: we take screenshots there, and the AI redraws them in the style of the series. The voices are AI voices, the theme music was made with AI, and AI also helps us animate everything on the computer.
The ideas, the story, the characters and the jokes are ours. But without AI, we as a family could never have drawn and voiced a series like this. We show the full note on this at the end of every episode.