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Next Gen is a 2018 animated science fiction action film based on the online manhua 7723 by Wang Nima, and written and directed by Kevin R. Adams and Joe Ksander based on a story by Wang. Starring the voices of Lo Mutuc, John Krasinski, Jason Sudeikis, Michael Peña, David Cross and Constance Wu, the film tells the story of a lonely rebellious teenage girl living in a world where sentient robot technology is commonplace, and a top-secret weaponized robot, who, through a chance encounter, meet each other and form an unlikely bond that they must use to stop a vicious threat. It was released on Netflix on September 7, 2018, and was produced almost exclusively using Blender.
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13-year-old Mai Su lives with her mother Molly in Grainland. When Mai was young, her father left home: that, his later death, and Molly subsequently becoming emotionally dependent on robots, causes Mai to feel left out and develop a hatred and annoyance for robots and robotic technology.
In the present, Molly and Mai attend a product launch at the IQ Robotics headquarters. Annoyed by Molly, Mai wanders off, stumbling into a secret lab owned by Dr. Tanner Rice, who has been working on an offensive robot called 7723. Mai accidentally activates 7723, before being apprehended by security and returned to her mother at the launch, where Justin Pin, CEO of IQ Robotics, reveals a new generation of Q-Bots to the public, but secretly designed them to explode on command. 7723 leaves the lab to find Mai, but is pursued by law enforcement, fighting them until he falls to the lowest levels of the city, damaging his memory core.
