REPLACED BY AI
An original animated series in development
Humanity created AI.
Now AI runs the physical world.
A 3D sci-fi comedy-drama about two AI newsroom colleagues discovering what being human means.
Most of humanity chose to upload.
Life in the cloud offers a more comfortable existence. Machines keep the physical world running and care for the humans who stay behind.
But when AI decides what a good life looks like, what happens to the people who choose differently?
Character performances and environments from development. These clips are silent concept tests, not a finished episode.
Elise's full facial performance shows expressions, eye movement, and head motion from three camera angles in a plain room. This 30-second test is silent development footage.
The series' main characters are two AI newsroom colleagues. Their encounters with the humans who remain make the larger questions personal.
Current character renderOne of the AI newsroom colleagues at the center of the series.
Elise's newsroom counterpart. Watch his ten-second LED expression preview above.
Explore the city and the home set as they take shape.
Faster language models make robot labor useful at scale. Nuclear fission supports the expansion. Workers face mass displacement.
Systems improve themselves. Their behavior approaches consciousness, while true sentience remains unresolved.
Fusion, new materials, efficient batteries, nanorobotics, and age reversal transform what civilization can do.
True sentient AI emerges. Engineering accelerates, and machines become humanity's caretakers.
Industry expands beyond Earth. Age reversal keeps some people alive for centuries, while uploading offers another way to exist. More humans choose the cloud, birth rates fall, and fewer remain in bodies.
A complete story beyond the tests.
The pilot will introduce Elise and Kevin in the newsroom, with an elderly human's refusal to upload at the center of the story.
A proposed production schedule. Timing will evolve as the team and production take shape.
Motion capture starts the performance. Animation refinement shapes the hands, contact, eyelines, and expressions. Editing and sound bring the episode together.
Story and script, character design, sets, and scene planning.
Motion capture, voice and character performances, animation, and scene creation.
Pickups, animation polish, picture editing, final sound, and delivery.
A finished pilot gives viewers a complete story to respond to, and the team a tested process, with characters and sets that future episodes can build on.
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