This isn't animation as a tool to tell a story. This is animation as the story. Every frame is hand-drawn insanity, a pure expression of speed and chaos and color that moves at a pace live-action can't touch. You watch Red Line the way you watch a Ferrari engine being assembled at full throttle. The pilot exists to prove one thing: that animation can be as physically overwhelming as any real spectacle, and that sometimes the medium itself is the point.

Red Line is a short pilot special released in 2009, made as a preview for the feature-length film Redline. Its single episode sits in the sports genre and served as an early look at the project before the full movie arrived.