Animation & Motion Design
Clodagh Ryan
Code Red
Code Red is a 2D animated short that follows the story of Red, an underappreciated
cuckoo bird working at Time Inc. Code Red is set in a fictional world in which Kronos,
God of Time, established an organization called Time Inc. Here, Kronos recruited an
army of cuckoo birds and a Timekeeper to oversee the continuous march of time.
All these beings work in harmony, the Timekeeper winds up the clocks every day to
allow the cuckoo birds to maintain time in the human world. Code Red follows the
story of one such bird who has been employed at Time Inc since its inception. The
only difference is that he is the cuckoo bird in the Timekeeper’s personal clock.
For years he has been the alarm clock to a Time God, a task that has proven to be
unfulfilling and seemingly pointless. That is until one morning, when the Timekeeper
fails to wind up the clocks and time itself stops. Suddenly it is all on Red to save the
Timekeeper and restore time. The fate of the world and time itself, now rests on the
shoulders of one disgruntled employee.