WATCH: Future Power Station create NSFW alien romp for Netflix’s ‘Sex Education’
London-based creative studio Future Power Station has created an animated introduction for an episode Sex Education‘s third season, which recently dropped on Netflix. Directed by Runyararo Mapfumo with animation direction by Yibi Hu leading a team including Peter Dodd, Daryl Graham and Maki Yoshikura, the sequence reimagines the characters Lily (Tanya Reynolds) and Ola (Patricia Allison) as animated alien beings Glenoxi and Starlanza enacting a passage of sci-fi romance fiction that opens the seventh episode of the new season.
It’s quite hard to describe our pre-title sequence for Netflix’s Sex Education without using the words ‘alien tentacle porn’. Trying, but er… nope.
We’re all massive fans of the show so it was super exciting when the Season 3 director Runyararo Mapfumo reached out to FPS about creating an X-rated opener set in Lily’s sci-fi universe.
Given the slightly NSFW content it was really important to everyone that we make something which was as powerfully beautiful as it is sexy. We’ve given this piece so much love and hope the craft and care shines through from every grain. It was amazing to work with Runyararo – she’s such a fantastic collaborator – so a constant exchange of ideas, and with Yibi (FPS founder and cd) they could get really stick into the finer details of the look, flow and meaning of each scene, from character design to building an alien world created entirely from *ahem* dicks and fannies.
We’ve been waiting for this to drop for a while now, so can’t wait to see it air during episode 7 of the new series. Not sure if it’s one to show my mum though.
-Geoff Parsons (Future Power Station)
With concept art developed by Adam Relf, Alex Twin, Rafaila Raikova and Krystian Garstkowiak, the sequence was produced by Sophie Gozlan and exec produced by Geoff Parsons. Post production was headed up by Natalie Silver with audio by Bang Post.
Season three of Sex Education is available now on Netflix. For more work by Future Power Station visit futurepowerstation.com