Storm clouds gather as a timid bookworm braves his daily walk to the bus stop. When he discovers what awaits him on board, he realises he'd have been better off outside in the storm.

The Passenger is the result of 6 years spent in a bedroom with a computer. It began in 1998 as a proposed showreel piece, but then escalated into an unstoppable monstrosity that continued to absorb Chris Jones' life and savings until 2006. Singlehandedly he created did the sound design, music and vision.

Chris Jones is an Australian artist, animator and musician. He studied Industrial Design at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, and during this time began working as a freelance children's book illustrator. After graduation he continued illustrating and animating before becoming a computer game artist at Beam Software (later to become Infogrames, then Atari and now Krome). He left Infogrames in May 2000 to complete work on The Passenger, and as of 2006 works as a freelance artist and animator.

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