Teo! Where are you?
You hid well.
Seven years since the Silence.
Nobody works past the second bend.
Why not?
Two, and no more.
Do it.
He called for you too.
He wants to meet you.
Why not?
Double Shadow Studios makes dark, cinematic animated series with AI tools, and TEO RUSK is our first. Every shot starts with a story, gets built in pieces, and is finished by hand in the edit.
We write the story the old way first, long before a single frame exists. Then we use AI to build what a small team could never afford to shoot, like a valley full of dead armies or a ghost that talks in someone's ear. The tools generate the shots, but the choices about what goes on screen and what gets cut are ours.
Before anything is generated, we write the series bible, plan the season, finish every script and read each line out loud.
WritingReference art and character sheets set how every face, costume and place should look, and we make them with GPT Image 2 on kie.ai.
kie.aiRough 3D scenes in Blender lock the camera, where people stand and where the light comes from. They work like a storyboard you can walk around in.
BlenderEach shot is generated in Seedance 2.5 inside Dreamina, from a start frame, the layout and the character's own voice. Most shots take several tries before we keep one.
Seedance 2.5Every character's voice is designed and directed in ElevenLabs, one line at a time, until it sounds like a person standing in that place.
ElevenLabsMusic and sound effects come from Epidemic Sound, cut to the picture and mixed so the dialogue always comes through.
Epidemic SoundWe cut every scene by hand, grade the color, upscale to 4K with Topaz and master the sound to streaming loudness.
TopazEvery tool on this page is open to anyone. If you want to make an animated short or a series like this one, start where we started: write the story first, then build it one shot at a time.
Start and end frames, reference art and character sheets with GPT Image 2.
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