My friend Tim Maughan has made a short film of the opening scenes of his short story, “Paintwork”. It is a very low budget exercise, so it is all done with stills and animation rather than live action, but it looks fabulous. It has that “mean streets in the rain” look that cyberpunk does so well, but has Tim’s signature feature of having those streets populated by kids with spray cans rather than hackers with expensive electronics. The narration and sound track, done by some of Tim’s friends from the Bristol music scene, is really good too. Hey, and William Gibson liked it, which caused Tim to fangasm spectacularly.

Tim has made one fairly significant change to the story for the film, which had me smiling as I watched it. See if you notice.

There is more information about the people involved in the film at its YouTube page. And of course you can still read the full story for free at Tor.com. The short collection from which “Paintwork” is the title story is still available at the bookstore.