Jungian psychology has fascinated me. His approach to the human mind as a collection of entities brought a new light to mythology, religion, and overall storytelling for me. For Lefty & Boomer, it inspired me to create a story in which divided a character into more characters... a normal person in an everyday situation as opposed to some cliché schizophrenic "Oh no, I was the killer the whole time?" kind of twist.
I decided to focus on the logic vs emotion duality, commonly attributed to the left and right brain hemispheres. For this purpose, I created a robot named Lefty, and a dandy named Boomer, who would represent these hemispheres within a quiet-neurotic college student. Their mission: talk to a girl.
I decided to film the physical stuff (meatspace) in live-action, partially to save time, but also to emphasize the physicality of it all, as well as push the surreality of the squashy/stretchy animated mental world (Psychospace).
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