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Nara, in her armored form, braces a shield against a huge maned beast while the city crew shelters behind her in a pale crystal ravine.
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Kintsyn

A wilderness survivor bonds with a gift from an ancient aid ship, and it starts acting before she does.

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Story

Kintsyn is set on a world that survived an alien invasion by taking the invaders’ technology into its bodies, its cities and its damaged land. Every repair leaves a seam, and the seams carry the color of what each person has survived.

Nara, an experienced wilderness survivor, finds an ancient ship in The Wake, a scarred region most people avoid. It came from a people who tried to help. What she finds inside bonds with her, reads her intent and sometimes moves before she does.

A native beast and a crew of city veterans converge on the disturbance. Nara shields one of the crew before they know what she is, and only by working together do they all get out. I’m making it as a proof-of-concept film with minimal dialogue, and I make the music.

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Design kit

The world’s visual language, plate by plate, from the cast and the coastal city to the frontier and the helmets.

  1. Cast

    Nara and Vey at rest: heavy cloth, human faces and circular modules.

  2. World

    An ocean world and its coastal city, clad in ivory around cliffs and sheltered water.

  3. Street

    Nara and Vey in the city, seen from the pavement and from high above.

  4. Transit

    A single-rider hover speeder, its taxi cousin and a rider’s helmet.

  5. Frontier

    Forest and mineral desert, and a living mount whose scutes echo the armor.

  6. Metamorph

    Cloth becomes ceramic: Nara from rest to surge, with helmet details.

  7. Sera and Oren

    Sera in ivory and teal, Oren in graphite and vermilion, at rest and in shell.

  8. Helmet interface

    The view from inside the helmet: status at the rim, the world left clear.

  9. Color and style sheet

    The palette, the type and six rules that hold the world together.

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Storyboards

The origin film, drawn shot by shot.

World and contact

Nara finds an ancient aid ship, and something inside it.

  1. 01A dead warship drifts past a blue world that is still alive.

  2. 02The view falls from orbit into the frontier canopy.

  3. 03Nara moves along the trail without hesitation.

  4. 04A boot tests a loose stone and shifts onto a root.

  5. 05Smooth ribs in the hillside: an old vessel, opening into the rock.

  6. 06Inside, empty cradles surround one living point of light.

  7. 07A small seed flickers in its cradle.

  8. 08She touches it, and a filament joins the seam in her glove.

Response and threat

The gift acts before she does, and others come looking.

  1. 01She snatches her hand back and checks whether anything is following her.

  2. 02Deep in her eye, a cobalt light wakes.

  3. 03Her cuff tightens, and cloth becomes a slender ceramic bracer.

  4. 04She turns the arm over and laughs in disbelief.

  5. 05A filament catches a dropped probe and brings it to her palm.

  6. 06A crew of city veterans follows the ridge in an old field transport.

  7. 07Vey sees a reading change that was not on the survey.

  8. 08A massive native beast comes for the strange new signature in its territory.

Choice and trust

She protects a stranger, and teamwork ends the fight.

  1. 01She jumps, the new power adds too much force, and she flies too far.

  2. 02Her hood draws over her face, and she resists for one heartbeat.

  3. 03Her loose silhouette pulls into a slim armored form.

  4. 04She turns her shield from the beast to cover Sera.

  5. 05Oren plants an anchor and casts a line across the beast’s path.

  6. 06Together they turn the charge, and the line holds.

  7. 07The helmet opens on a tired young woman.

  8. 08Sera offers a flask, and they share a first small smile.

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Characters

Character sheets, turnarounds and expressions for Nara and the veteran crew.

Nara

An experienced wilderness survivor whose new integration sometimes acts before she does.

  • Her face after the bond, with cobalt light in her eyes

  • Shield and blade, charged

  • Full ultra form, charged

Oren

A city veteran who anchors the line that turns the beast away.

Sera

A city veteran, and the stranger Nara shields before the crew knows what she is.

Vey

A city veteran who catches the reading that was not on the survey.

  • Her helmet, closed

More of the cast

I am still drawing the rest of the crew. Each one joins this page when their sheet is finished.

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Footage

The film itself, published here as it comes together.

The first film

The film is in production. It will premiere here.

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Pipelines

How a scene moves from script to finished shot, and where AI agents take on the production work.

Scripts, boards and concepts

How a scene is written and drawn before a single shot exists.

  1. Script

    The scene, written out.

    • OpenAI

  2. Storyboards

    The shots, drawn in order.

    • Midjourney
    • OpenAI

  3. Concept images

    The look of each character, place and moment.

    • Midjourney
    • OpenAI

  4. Workflows

    A written plan for how each shot gets made.

    • OpenAI

Agents and shots

How the boards become moving shots, with AI agents doing the legwork.

  1. Prompt

    Agents turn each board and concept into prompts.

    • Runway

  2. Deliver

    Agents send the prompts through Runway and collect the shots.

    • Runway

  3. Review

    Agents check each shot as it comes back.

  4. Edit and polish

    The final edits and the polish are mine.

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Tools and credits

Tools

Midjourney
Concept art and character images
ChatGPT
Design plates, character sheets and storyboards
fal
Image and video generation
Runway
Image to video
Seedance
Image to video
Suno
Music

Credits

Created by
Chris
Music
Chris

Tools I work with. No affiliation or endorsement implied.

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