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These were not all made the same way, and they were not made at the same standard. That is worth saying plainly before you watch any of them.

The oldest pieces predate our use of AI entirely. They were made by hand, frame by frame, to work out whether an idea held up at all — concept work rather than film-making. They are not up to the standard of anything we would put out now, and we have kept them anyway, because the point of them was to find out what this universe looked like when it moved.

Some were made here, on a six-hundred-dollar box with an entry-level card in it. Others went through online engines, where the cost is per call and adds up fast. There has been no grant and no studio behind any of it — we pay for the calls out of what the work itself brings in, which is the real reason some ideas waited.

What is constant is the authorship. Every character was designed and drawn by hand before any of this existed. Where we use AI it is to produce at volume, trained on our own drawings and nothing else, and it never decides who a character is.

So this page is a work in progress on purpose. As the tools get cheaper the work gets better, and we would rather show the staircase than wait at the top of it. All of it is in service of one thing: building the universe into intellectual property solid enough to licence — the characters, the world, the stories — and these films are part of how that gets proved rather than asserted.

The merch and the collectibles are the same argument. Part of it is for us; part of it keeps the work moving and funds the games. The Founders' box and the marketplace sit next to the films, not instead of them.

Two people make all of this: Fadwa Morabet and Mounir Elabridi.