THE STOP MOTION ANIMATION HOW TO PAGE
/IMAGINE with Jen
The Story:
Jen is a silly and somewhat naive stop motion film maker who lives in a tiny isolated studio. She was prompted into existence by a mysterious hacker as a way to counter the rise of AI slop that is taking over the animation world! A fight fire with fire situation of epic proportions!
She toils away every day working on her projects and ponders if she can really save the art form.
The series will consist of Jen creating her films, as well as spreading stop motion through different segments. But ultimately, Jen will find herself in crazy dystopian situations that only a rogue AI like her can experience.
Jen lives alone with her jumping spider sidekick Hop and a strange entity that lives in the mystery closet. Not to mention some zany interactive characters on her TV and computer from time to time. Hop likes to keep the flies in check while Jen animates, plus he's a practical joker. He especially likes to tease her as she can get a little too into her work and deep philosophical thoughts at times.
Jen is actually a comedic play on the owner of this site, who at one time naively thought he would help save stop motion with the rise of CGI. Why else do you think this site exists? Well...here we go again, now AI is the assumed threat and history is repeating itself. So why not make it funny?
Be Part of the Series!
Starting in Spring of 2023, Marc began building Jen and her stop motion studio into a real world animated series. The first episode will be out sometime in late 2025. Many short stories are already written. Follow the series on the offical Bluesky blog by clicking here.
Marc has decided to use Dahlia V. for voice acting, she's really a great actress and already did a recording for the first episode!
Want exclusive updates as things progress? Check out the new Ko-Fi for behind the scenes photos and videos. Supporters will also see videos and photos before anyone else. To go to our Ko-Fi, click here!
Marc will still be releasing all the behind the scenes videos for the project on the new dedicated YouTube channel when time allows. You can also ask questions about the project in our Discord that is set up for the project here.