I never mentioned this to the team members, because I didn't want to limit what I could contribute to the show. Some artists had their own struggles, "I actually have an intense fear of androids," said Brakken, an illustrator and animator, "so I was a bit nervous working on the songs featuring the girl from 'Sad Machine'. The challenge of avoiding a hot mess was something everyone recognized.
Bringing these diverse backgrounds together, and responding to an exceptionally wide range of influences, presented a real challenge, the risk being overwhelmed and ending up unable to create a coherent creative response. Many worked as both designers and animators. Invisible Light Network's team included traditional illustrators, concept artists, cg specialists, and pixel artists. The studio built on Porter's foundation by adding layers of inspiration pulled from Indie games like Journey, Below, and Torchbearer and classic games like Another World and Space Harrier. Most of my influences are the older stuff like Akira, Macross and Nausicaa," said illustrator Tom Lintern. "I've been drawing anime/manga since I was a teenager. It was a perfect match for ILN's artists.
Invisible Light Network and Porter Robinson were introduced through Brooklyn, NY, based The Meta Agency, While Porter composed Worlds, he was also thinking about the look of the project, documenting his visual explorations in a massive collection of links, screenshots, and story ideas pulled from the worlds of anime and online MMORPGs. In concert, these spectacular worlds unfold on a massive set of on-stage LED screens. A huge cast of animated characters explore love, longing and adventure in a series of fantastic alternate realities. Porter Robinson's Worlds tour circles the globe this fall featuring a wild visual universe created by Elliot Kealoha Blanchard's Invisible Light Network Anime meets pixel art and glitched out Tumblr-inspired cg in epic landscapes and storylines.
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