We are excited to announce that our AI Trailer Mother of Monsters has ranked Top 25 in the Project Odyssey Season 2 AI Film Competition. We also got a Matty Shimura Pick for the trailer category.
This was an experiment in purely AI production. We used a variety of local tools to pull this one off and we're fairly pleased with the results.
"Mother of Monsters: The Enid Andrews Story" peels back the curtain on a seemingly harmless widower accused of years-long, monstrous crimes. Through leaked footage, eyewitness accounts, and online sleuths, this meta-documentary unravels whether Enid Andrews is a ruthless murderer—or the only human ally of the creatures that lurk among us.
Created, Written, & Performed by; Amber & Jwall (ohheyvoid.com)
Audio: Elevenlabs Voice2Voice & SoundFx | FreeSounds
Music: Adobe Stock
Images: Flux in Forge & ComfyUI Studio
Ai Animation: Minimax Hailuo
Face: LivePortrait w/ Pinokio
Upscale: Tensorpix
Social & News Overlays: Photoshop + ChatGPT
Creative Note
When we decide to submit to these AI competitions we try to make sure that our submission is still providing us with an opportunity to explore our worlds as well as dips our toes into tech we don't normally use
This piece is a world-building exercise for a project we're code-naming; "Monster Sponsor."
This is an in world trailer for a "documentary" that we'd imagine would occur after our initial story takes place.
Production Note
This was our first fully AI spec trailer - no video2video or AI style filters. It took us about 2 weeks - and the crazy thing was Amber was on Jury Duty. So Jayson was doing a lot of the heavy lifting.
We referenced a number of Netflix documentary trailers. Pulling shot ideas and sequences from the ones the pro's use taught us a lot about how they edit their trailers. Masterclass stuff really.
The only thing in this project that wasn't purely AI was news clippings and social media post sequences. THose were manipulated & edited in adobe. But other than that everything is AI generated.
We're very excited to make more like this for future projects. The AI Workflow is definitely a powerful part of the pipeline we're excited to add to the worlds we're building.
🚀 The 2025 Pitch Blitz is Here! 🚀
2022 – We decided to publish screenplays as books. (Because Hollywood wasn’t calling, so we called ourselves.)
2023 – We dove headfirst into character design and AI. (Turns out, robots can be useful beyond world domination.)
2024 – We learned how to animate in Unreal Engine 5 with Survivors Don’t Die. (And yes, it was as complicated as it sounds.)
2025? – Oh, it’s gonna be wild. Introducing... The 2025 Pitch Blitz! 🎉
What the Heck is a Pitch Blitz?
Glad you asked. It's where we throw a brand-new idea at you every single week—through micro-content and mini projects—because why not?
These pitches will help us dive into new worlds, meet new characters, and experiment with storytelling styles.
We’ve been hoarding these ideas for years, and now that we've harnessed the skills necessary to get them out, we’re making them a reality.
No more "someday"—the time is now.
What’s in It for You?
In short—more content, more often.
You'll get a front-row seat to all our wild ideas and the chance to tell us what’s hot and what’s... not.
Our goal? To get each of these ideas into a Screenplay Book by year’s end—just like Survivors Don’t Die.
But here’s the deal: If a pitch doesn’t spark joy (or terror, or excitement—whatever floats your boat), we’ll try other ways to pitch it. But if those don't hit shelf them b**ches and move onto the next.
No need to waste anyone’s time on something that doesn’t hit.
How Can You Help?
Easy—TALK TO US.
As we roll out new pitches, tell us what you loved, what made you cringe, and which ideas deserve to be fast-tracked.
Your feedback guides our creative chaos and helps us zero in on what really excites you.
More comments = better stories = a world where everyone wins.
So, buckle up, because 2025 is about to be non-stop storytelling madness.
Ready to help us make something epic?
Stay tuned!
Can't wait? Here's a sneak peek at whats to come!
Hey Y'all!
You've been on this Table Read Podcast journey with us, and we're thrilled to announce that the final act of the pilot episode has officially dropped! 🎉
In this last act of Survivors Don't Die, we dive into the crew's new life inside The Sanctuary District. Meanwhile, the fallout from Tim's unfortunate demise in the previous act leaves a lasting mark, building up to a cliffhanger we cannot wait to pay off in the next episode.
Shit gets cray—you don’t even know.
But, Amber, when’s the next episode coming out?!
I hear you, pal. We want it too. But here’s the deal: we need to make sure enough people are hyped for it first.
Once the season is greenlit with 10k downloads or paperback purchases, we’ll kick off production on the next episodes as books, audiobooks, podcast table reads, and more.
So if you haven’t cast your vote yet, what are you waiting for? Grab your free download of the Survivors Don’t Die Pitch & Pilot Book and let us know you’re ready for more!
We’re also cooking up some featurettes in the coming weeks to dive deeper into the story and promote the ebook, so stay tuned for those.
Thanks for sticking with us on this wild ride—we couldn’t do it without you. 💜
Hey Greenlighters! 🌟
The latest act of Survivors Don’t Die has just dropped! 🧟♂️✨ We’re testing out a unique podcast format where we perform our screenplay using AI voice changers—and we’d love to know what you think about it!
This time, the crew steps into the eerie sanctuary and faces some major moral dilemmas. What’s up with Amala? Is it too good to be true? And where’s Tim? Dive into the action and tell us your thoughts!
You can also download the full screenplay for Survivors Don’t Die at survivorsdontdie.com to follow along. Every download helps Greenlight this story into a fully animated series!
Hit play, share your feedback, and let us know: Would you trust the sanctuary? 🤔
👂 We’re listening,
Amber & JWall
The Survivors Don't Die Act 3 Table Read is out! This table read is the most action-packed sequence of events. Our team sets out to help whoever is on the other end of Rosie596. But their path is swarming with hive bees! Tim finds himself racing to save them all.
This Act is the one where most of our screen tests come from. It's exciting to see how the screenplay influences what we see on screen.
Thanks for helping greenlight this project into a fully animated series. Every step brings us closer to making this show a reality! 🌟
We just dropped Act 2 of Survivors Don't Die! This episode ramps up the stakes as the crew battles dwindling supplies, mounting tension, and a horde of zombies hot on their heels—all while trying to reconnect with the outside world. In a gripping finale, the team's desperate broadcast finally gets a response: someone named Rosie596... but can she be trusted?
We also shared exclusive insights into the creative process, emphasizing the delicate balance of hope, survival, and trust that drives the story forward.
Thanks for helping greenlight this project into a fully animated series. Every step brings us closer to making this show a reality! 🌟
Alright, folks!
The audiobook for Survivors Don't Die - Episode 1 took us about a month to learn how to do. We tinkered with different ways we could do voice changers with AI. We tapped a number of services and even trained some of our own RVC models with our voices.
It was a grand learning experience that ended with us being BLOWN AWAY by ElevenLabs. An AI voice platform that is miles above the rest.
We really enjoy working with this particular tool because it pays the actors that have trained their voices for every generation we do.
Everything you hear was performed by us. Any dialogue was run through the voice2voice tools at elevenlabs and we got some pretty decent emotion.
NOW, we've been tinkering with different ways to present the Survivors Don't Die Episode 1 audiobook. ACX/Audible doesn't allow for any AI voice productions on their site (unless you use their really shitty AI voice tool). Which sucks when you're using legitimate tools, but at the same time - I get it.
Anyway, we're distributing it ourselves. Huzzah!
We've got the full 1hr Audiobook experience on Spotify and on Youtube. We noticed that the hour-long audio-only video wasn't exactly engaging.
Until...
Jwall had a brilliant idea to shorten the length of the stories into more bite-sized single-Act episodes for our micro-podcast. Because everyone needs a podcast now, or something, right?
He even went a step above and edited together the actual book into the visuals for this one.
We played with some usual podcast banter, lol, we'll get better. We promise. But we're excited to present each piitch and pilot this way in the future.
Would love to know what you think on this one!
- Amber & Jwall
Welcome, to the new website!
Today, we're thrilled to dive into our Survivors Don’t Die teaser trailer, giving you a behind-the-scenes look at the creative and technical process behind our latest peek into the world of Nuvitta.
From the initial sparks of inspiration to the AI magic that helped bring it all together, here’s everything that went into creating the teaser that’s got us counting down to October 31st!
Scene Breakdown & Inspiration
The purpose of this teaser was to immerse you into the tense world of Survivors Don’t Die and bring pages of our screenplay to life!
Inspiration came from some of our favorite zombie films (Train to Busan and World War Z) and the suspenseful editing style of A Quiet Place.
While we had plenty of thrilling scenes we wished we could include, we focused on the strongest visuals to capture the story's core atmosphere.
Character Deep Dive
In this teaser, Yuki takes the lead as she’s swept up by the Hive's large drones, leaving viewers with questions about where she’s headed and what lies behind the massive walls of Nuvitta. We wanted to give glimpses into Yuki’s curiosity, Tim’s bravery, and Ji’s humor—each revealing hints of their personalities without too many spoilers!
Our original plan had more dialogue scenes, but we decided to dial it down to meet our Oct. 31 deadline. More trailers (and crazier videos) are on the way, and we can’t wait to reveal more about the full team.
Production - Production - Production!
Creating this teaser with just two of us was an exciting test of our skills! We knew we had to tackle Unreal Engine consistently, so we built a daily habit of 8-hour sessions to level up our animation chops. It was these consistent reps that allowed us to power through and bring this ambitious world to life.
As a two-person team, accessible tools like Unreal Engine, Blender, and Rokoko mocap were game-changers. With AI (like MetaHuman Animator for faces and some visual blending), we were able to handle high-quality, complex scenes much faster than we could’ve dreamed!
AI & Animation Process Insights
UE5 has been our animation workhorse, but with recent advances in AI video, we were able to supercharge the process! We ran some of the zombie and previs footage through Minimax, blending these visuals with our animated shots for a truly immersive experience. This AI pass was also key for polishing color correction and smoothing Metahuman textures.
AI in creative work has been a revelation, allowing us to speed up tasks and create visuals that hint at the epic scale we envision once greenlit.
Moving Forward
Up next? Even more promotional material and immersive sneak peeks! Our current goal is to reach 1,000 downloads of our pilot by year’s end to help make Survivors Don’t Die a fully realized series.
Is there a specific part of this world you’d love to explore further? Comment below, and let us know—we can’t wait to share more!
✒️SCENE 14✒️
Zola is checking on their grow house, while Oli is worried about their dwindling supplies. Tensions are rising!
This scene is in a sequence of "everyday life" scenes where we see how our five heroes have survived the last two years. In the sequence, we explore their food supply dwindling, their water and energy issues, and the uncertainty of whether fixing the Nuvitta Network is a good idea.
Because two years is a long time when the world’s gone to shit, we felt like the sequence this scene falls into was important. How do they eat, what do they eat? Where do they live? What's their day-to-day like? How do these seemingly unconnected people work as a family unit?
ZOLA & OLI
In this particular scene, we wanted to explore the subtle character dynamic between Zola and Oli, hinting at their friendship, trust, and fears—all with little dialogue. When you're around people who want to succeed with you, silence can be a powerful communicator.
It’s a simple scene on paper, but if done properly in the final edit, it provides a nice slowdown from the first act and previous action scenes. It also shows some nice independent and collective worries for each character regarding their dwindling supply situation.
ANIMATING THE SCENE
MOCAP & SCENE PACING
Animating this scene was a fun one. It was our first "talkie."
We needed to animate this scene to work through the production workflow of animating a talking scene with one mocap suit.
How do you get audio into UE5? What does the pipeline look like to incorporate Eleven Labs Voice2Voice?
We found that rehearsal was important so the timing when we got into the scene pacing wasn’t so terribly off. It was refreshing to discover the power of animating and editing for a shot; as opposed to animating for a scene.
If we were shooting this live, we’d have shot it with a traditional coverage style of shooting. I'd have estimated at least half a 10-hour day, if not the full day, for this scene.
With the real-time animation workflow, we were able to rehearse and mocap the scene in 2 hours and have pacing for the shot animation edit done the following day.
ENVIRONMENTS
The big thing I wanted to dip into was the importance of environment building. The previous scenes were done with very sparse set design. While we’d made some strides with the actual workflow, it was important that we fill the room with stuff.
Having nanite and learning you can put blueprints inside of blueprints was a game-changer. So was having access to KitBash3D and Megascans.
It was really important to get some depth in the scene. Ambiance helps create a particular character element that’s unspoken on screen, and we wanted to try our hand at it for the first time.
SPRITES & FLIPBOOKS
This is a minor detail, but this scene helped us learn the power of the flipbook workflow in UE5. The little glowing screens on the lockers were our first little foray into animated screens for this project. The flipbook and sprite workflow was shockingly simple, and we'll definitely be using more of those.
THE GROW ROOM
The choice to have this scene in a grow room served two purposes. We knew we needed to explain where their food supply came from. And we wanted to play with intense lighting.
Because the team set up their bunker in a Network Building, we decided they’d made a home in an office building—a place with a lot of rooms, space, and fluorescent lighting. We also knew that because they were 100 years in the future, chances were they’d have some better growing techniques than present day.
The other driving force for this scene was that we really wanted to emulate some of the lighting choices done in one of our favorite movies, Attack The Block.
Jayson was adamant about using colored fluorescents in the scene, and doing so in a grow room was a nice homage/touch.
In future renditions I'd like to explore adding more hydroponic systems hanging from the ceiling, maybe build out a wall unit and a water system that we could get cool inserts from.
AI WORKFLOW
It was in this scene we realized we could do a pretty standard Stable Diffusion AI process on top of our characters. We’d tested SD in our previous scenes but did it for each shot, which was time-consuming and generally messy on the file management side.
For this scene, we batched the entire sequence and then just spot cleaned frames where the AI might have given Oli a man's face or made Zola too feminine. Because we're editing image sequences, updating the shot was faster this way.
The technique offers a subtle AI filter that just helps the Metahumans feel a little less plastic and a little more "squishy." It also does some really clever color correction that speeds up the process.
The other AI technique that was fun to play with in this scene was the use of Eleven Labs' Voice2Voice option. We learned that when you rush lines or mumble things, the AI struggles to capture the emotion. But it did its job.
It was also fun coming up with new lines and adding elements to the scene that weren't in the script. The "Computer play my jams" and "Playing Zola's jams" were a fun spice that helped the opening of the scene. And it was done with text-to-speech, something we would have had to ADR at a later date to make happen.
But with AI, we did it right in the edit.
MOVING FORWARD
We learned some subtle things on this one, but I think when they all come together, they compound into more tools that will help us fine-tune this project into shape.
Now, even though we tried our hand at interior environments, you can still feel the emptiness in the environment. I think adding more to the wall textures and filling some of the empty space in the frame with more “human clutter” will amp up the space a bit more.
There is also a desperate need to learn cloth simulation—the joint action in this scene is definitely in need of work.
But not too shabby for the first pass.
I'm excited to revisit this one when we circle back for the full production.
THOUGHTS?
What were your thoughts on this one? Any tips or ideas to make it better? Any feedback helps us become better so that when it comes time for full production of the episode, things smooth out, feel fuller, and look great.