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- Part 4: Building Sets with AI: Designing the World of Celebrity Dad Joke Roast
- Part 3: Designing the Show’s Logo — From AI Concept to Final Artwork
- Part 2: Inventing the Show Concept and Structure
- Part 1: I Created an Animated Web Series in 12 Weeks — And You Can Too
- How to Write Jokes with AI Dad Jokes (and Why It’s Weirdly Fun)
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Part 4: Building Sets with AI: Designing the World of Celebrity Dad Joke Roast
When I built Celebrity Dad Joke Roast inside the Showrunner platform, one of the biggest creative challenges was set design. Unlike traditional animation, where you can sketch anything at any scale, Showrunner comes with its own rules: That meant every environment had to be designed with intention — but also within strict boundaries. My solution was to combine traditional visual development (mood boards, research, sketches) with AI-powered set generation. The AI never gave me finished sets. Instead, it provided canvases…
Part 3: Designing the Show’s Logo — From AI Concept to Final Artwork
In my first career as a designer—back in the early days of the internet—I created a lot of logos. My inspiration came from manila folders filled with sketches, clip art, magazine clippings, and historical crests. To capture a brand’s story, I would pull visual elements from this archive and remix them into something new. Logos follow a familiar visual language—a vernacular of shapes, colors, and composition—but the art lies in how you combine those elements to express something unique. AI…
Part 2: Inventing the Show Concept and Structure
As part of the closed Alpha for Showrunner.xyz—a platform that uses AI to support community-driven storytelling—I was invited to create my own animated series. After experimenting with the platform, it became clear that the AI worked best with a show that had a repeatable format. A procedural with lawyers, cops, or doctors handling new cases each episode, OR a game show…with dad jokes! The Origin: Dad Joke Culture Meets AI Tools I write and collect dad jokes for a knowledge…
Part 1: I Created an Animated Web Series in 12 Weeks — And You Can Too
Ever dream of having your own show? I have – for years. I’ve written pilot scripts, treatments, and short plays. I’ve imagined characters and scenes so vividly that I storyboarded them just to get them out of my head. But for years, those ideas stayed stuck on the page — not because I lacked the vision, but because I didn’t have the tools, the team, or the budget to bring them fully to life. Until now. In just twelve weeks,…
How to Write Jokes with AI Dad Jokes (and Why It’s Weirdly Fun)
I built AI Dad Jokes GPT because I wanted a co-writer—someone (or something) I could bounce puns off of, pitch goofy setups to, and spitball punchlines with. Dad jokes felt like the perfect use case. They’re short, formulaic, and rely on wordplay—basically, the bread and butter of large language models. And while GPT can definitely churn out dad jokes by the dozen, here’s the truth: Most of them are terrible.Some are nonsensical. Others are technically jokes, but they just… fall…
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