Concept Art: Inner city cyborg courier Clay. Lead character in City Limits, 2D Animation on Live Action Sci-fi series ©Gary Alake Riley 2025
City Limits
A Retro-Futuristic animated venture
Set in a near-future world just down the road from our own, City Limits is a visually striking 2D-on-live-action animation series in development. Blending and reimagining sci-fi, pop culture, 1980s futurism, urban fantasy, and gritty realism, it crafts a bold, immersive narrative that pushes the boundaries of animated storytelling.
Neon Billboard also serves as an introduction to the broader City Limits world, characters, and story.
The Story: Clay, a young British cyborg, wakes up as an imprisoned worker in New London, a Mars colony underconstruction with only fragments of his past life on Earth. As he pieces together his identity as an outcast fugitive in a city that turned against young cyborgs like him, he uncovers a way to escape and free others. But with his past revealed, should he fight to return to a hostile Earth—or seek something greater and freedom beyond the stars?