PJ Ace outlines a three-episode-a-month social-series pipeline for a feature pitch

• Nexus is producing at least three social episodes a month with 30-plus collaborators involved monthly, Genre cofounder PJ Ace says in his production update.
• Episodes move through director, animator and editor roles inside a shared canvas, as Ace explains in a workflow reply.
• The proposed hybrid feature is still being written and packaged despite multiple offers, according to his update.

Bad camera placement and ships changing size pushed Nexus generation spending above $2,000 a day. At Genre, the episodes have functioned as a “story R&D lab”; a more linear narrative with recurring faces and locations comes next, according to the Nexus thread.

Nexus episodes run three to five minutes and appear across X, Instagram and YouTube, Ace explains in a distribution reply. Each episode lives in a canvas and passes through three roles:

1. Director: Creates the assets and ingredients.
2. Animators: Animate those ingredients in the canvas.
3. Editor: Cuts the episode.

Ace signs off on important characters and locations before animation, the most useful detail in the handoff.

A four-person headquarters consists of Ace writing and showrunning, two writers and a producer. It supervises three directors working on separate episodes, with two or three animators and an editor in the episode pods.

He also credits cofounder Tawny Holguin with keeping the wider production running in his production update.

An earlier production breakdown explains how the team tackled expensive regeneration loops. Reference images alone failed to communicate scale and blocking, while Blender video references produced stiff camera work.

The revised process:

1. Use Claude to operate Blender and build scene sequences.
2. Have Claude capture the sequences as storyboard screenshots.
3. Attach those images to rewritten Seedance prompts in Dreamina, rather than uploading the Blender video.

Ace says the storyboard approach produced more natural cuts and camera movement, while image references cost less to submit than video references.

He says the studio shares its prompts and processes free in the original thread. Full Nexus breakdowns live under his Highlights tab, while his newsletter publishes additional Seedance guides.

Ace describes a five-stage route from social series to hybrid feature:

1. Original IP: Build an audience around an original property.
2. Platform partnership: Partner with a platform such as Dreamina.
3. Six months of growth: Expand the audience and production team.
4. Feature package: Pitch a script alongside attached actors and accumulated views.
5. Greenlight: Secure a hybrid feature film.

For Nexus, he reports multiple offers while writing and packaging continue. He says the team is waiting to choose a major studio until the project is fully packaged.

Another filmmaker, posting as starks_arq, says they have begun directing a television series after demonstrating “speech to film” to Michael Shamberg, a producer of Pulp Fiction. The creator says that demo became the pitch.

CAA is helping recruit writers, and an unnamed lead writer from one of the creators' favorite TV shows is already involved, according to a follow-up reply. The filmmaker also plans to show how the tools change the writers' room, pre-production, production and post-production.

“We’re all mad scientists!” the creator joked in another reply.

Ace says the team retains all Nexus rights and IP, and that its short-series agreement does not encumber feature-film rights. He credits legal work with making the social-series arrangement compatible with a potential studio deal.