WATCH: First episode of new animated short series ‘Ada’ debuts on TED-Ed
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Ada is a five-episode series that follows Ada, a recent graduate, as she juggles two worlds she struggles to keep separate: her dull reality as a library assistant and her imagination, where she explores how different transformative technologies could shape the future.
Should we eradicate mosquitoes? Create superintelligent AI? Create artificial wombs? Ada explores these questions with humour, vibrant settings, and a willingness to engage with the weird. Each episode’s imagined future showcases new environments, colour palettes, textures, and character designs.
Ada has been voted Best Animated Series at the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology and Professional Series Animation at the Raw Science Film Festival.
Ada is written and directed by Elizabeth Cox, founder of independent production company Should We Studio. Previously, Elizabeth was the Senior Editorial Producer at TED-Ed, where she produced over 200 animated shorts with hundreds of millions of views and over 10,000 years of watch time.
At TED-Ed, she wrote and led the development of new series, including How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, a seven-part adaptation of the book by Bill Gates (supported by Gates Ventures), and Demon of Reason. She also served as a science advisor on My Love Affair With Marriage, an animated feature film directed by Signe Baumane that premiered at the Tribeca Festival 2021.