It's a collection of backstories and lore of the Matrix series, each small segment is animated in an entirely different way.
The first segment is named the Final Flight of the Osiris, it's animated via computer graphics and attempts to create a photorealistic but still somewhat surreal digital world.
The second segment we see is named the Second Renaissance (Part I and II), directed by Mahiro Maeda, which is backstory of the war between the machines and man. The footage is hand drawn and digitally arranged results in an segment that presents an amazing visual anime style with some scenes being just downright gorgeous, in addition there are anime styled news bulletins put in at sections.
The third segment we see is named Kid's Story, it's hand drawn in a more western style, directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, animated by Kazuto Nakazawa. Kid's story is incredibly stylized and has very unconventional artwork, looking very quickly sketched with shaky pencil-like outlines and shading. The animation itself is very fast paced and exaggerated.
The fourth segment is named Program, the character designs were done by Yutaka Minowa and the segment is in a traditional, beautifully grainy and stylish anime style, reminiscent of something like Mononoke or Ninja Scroll.
The fifth segment is named World Record, I love the unorthodox and grotesque anime style with sharp shadows and a simplicity that reminds me a lot of western animation.
The sixth segment is named Beyond, and it draws from artists like Makoto Shinkai with extremely detailed hand drawn backgrounds and simple almost vector-like characters over the top. I absolutely love this kind of animation but I don't have the skills to replicate it.
The seventh segment is named Detective Story and it's done in the style of a modern-day detective film noir, grainy, gritty and almost monochrome but the characters are in a very anime style.
The ninth and final segment is called Matriculated, the artwork is incredible western and could be something straight out of the Justice League or Batman. The exception are the robots which appear to be 3d animated, perhaps a statement about man vs machine.
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