Inside Satoshi Kon's Last, Unfinished Movie

An early logo for Dreaming Machine, courtesy of The Anime Works of Satoshi KonWelcome! It’s another Sunday edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter, and this is the slate:1. What Dreaming Machine was supposed to be.2. Newsbits from the animation world.Now, let’s go!1. Machines with dreamsIn his lifetime, Satoshi Kon never made a commercial hit. Projects like Perfect Blue and Paranoia Agent attracted fans, and became very influential, and gained legendary status with time. But Kon was still fighting for a breakthrough with the public when he passed away in 2010, at age 46. He spent his last years on the movie that could’ve taken him into the mainstream. Its title is Dreaming Machine. Kon once called it “a ‘road movie’ for robots,” and it was well underway when he died. “A storyboard exists, as do 26 minutes of footage, colored and edited but not voiced,” noted Pascal-Alex Vincent, director of the documentary Satoshi Kon: The Illusionist. There were attempts made to complete the…