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How I Created a Self-Directed Animated Short While Maintaining Authorship at Every Stage

The Myth of Push-Button Filmmaking It took me roughly nine months to make a two-minute film using tools that are supposedly instantaneous. When people talk about AI-assisted filmmaking right now, the conversation usually breaks in one of two directions: the tools are treated either like magic or like contamination. Neither framing has been especially useful to me. What interested me was something more practical: could one independent creator, working on a limited budget and without st…

Mercy-Bound: How Three French Bulldogs Taught Me to Let Go of the World I Built

All the dogs in my life have had names that begin with B. In PRAYPREY, the “mercy-bound hounds” are called Belenor, Benedrix, and Brindle—three supernatural guardians born when Titans kneel to mercy, surrendering their own lives so the cities carved inside their bones can continue. In my real life, the hounds came first. Their names were Butch, Bones, and Blue. This was not a branding choice or a neat thematic device I engineered from the start. The “B” …

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