Because some stories begin in childhood with friends and a film score — and deserve, finally, to be told.
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I create AI-powered animated motion comics — but the form only matters because of the story it carries. The Green Cheese Man began as a childhood character invented with neighborhood friends, told through 2001: A Space Odyssey playing on a record. We were kids building a universe from imagination and a film score. Decades later, AI gave me the tools to finally animate that world — to turn those memories into a serialized visual story. The format serves the dream that was always waiting.
Where do you find inspiration?From a memory I’ve carried for decades — a group of kids, a neighborhood, 2001: A Space Odyssey on the record player, and a character we invented together. The Green Cheese Man was born there. That story never left; it just waited. I’m also inspired by the idea that everyone has something inside them that only needed the right tool to emerge. For me, AI was finally that tool. Every episode I make is an act of gratitude — to those friends, that moment, and the imagination we shared as children.
What would you do with $25,000?Complete Season 1 the right way — commission original music, bring in voice talent, give the story the craft it has always deserved. But most importantly: share it with the people it was always for. The Green Cheese Man was created by a group of kids in a neighborhood. Some of those friends haven’t seen what we started together become something real. The prize would let me finish the story and finally bring it back to the people who helped imagine it — which is what this was always about.
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