The Bathroom Attendant

Each episode is a several-week production blending traditional filmmaking — a human-written script and hand-drawn storyboards — with AI image and video tools for execution. Gary's look was built from a hand-drawn character sketch, fed into ChatGPT with reference images from stop-motion favorites like Isle of Dogs, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and Wallace & Gromit to lock in a miniatures-style aesthetic, then refined over many rounds of prompting and hand-painted corrections in Procreate to keep his proportions consistent shot to shot.

Individual shots start as a rough Procreate sketch, get turned into a polished key image in Nano Banana Pro, and then go into Kling AI for motion — often prompted in reverse (removing an object from frame rather than adding one) since AI video tools handle that direction more reliably. The Kling output then gets reversed and re-timed in DaVinci Resolve to land the final motion.

Episode 2 raised the difficulty considerably: two new sets, the introduction of Ava and the girls'-room world, a much wider emotional range for Gary to act through, and more wide shots — which are harder to art-direct since more of the frame (and more of the character's acting) is exposed at once.