Orbit City was supposed to be paradise. Floating above the clouds, gleaming and perfect, a world where flying cars and robot maids made life effortless for everyone lucky enough to live there. Jim Carrey plays George Jetson, a simple button-pushing everyman who stumbles onto something he was never supposed to find, classified files that reveal the entire city is slowly dying and the corporations have known for decades. Kate Winslet brings warmth and quiet strength to Jane, the heart of the Jetson family, while Elle Fanning’s Judy and Jake Gyllenhaal’s tech-genius Elroy round out a household suddenly thrust into survival mode. Daniel Craig is genuinely chilling as Mr. Spacely, a man who built his empire on buried truths and intends to keep them buried at any cost. And Rosie, their beloved robot maid, gets a moment in this concept that absolutely wrecked me while editing it.
This one was a beast. Somewhere around 11 hours of work, maybe more if I count the planning stages. I went back through the original animated series carefully, trying to preserve that retro-futurist optimism while grounding it in something with real dramatic weight. Matching the visual palette of a gleaming utopia against the decaying ruins beneath it required a lot of deliberate choices across multiple tools and several complete rebuilds of the middle section.