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The Labs Log

I’m building an anime studioin public. Here’s what Igot wrong twice.

Technical posts, build decisions, model experiments, honest mistakes. The Forge is open-source; the thinking behind it is here.

Written by Frank — founder, AnimeLegends.aiWeekly-ish
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Recent & Planned

Posts from the workbench.

A running log of the decisions I'm making while building this studio. Drafts in progress, posts planned, nothing polished until it's published.

Drafting

How I rebranded three mascots in 23 files

AnimeLegend God became AKASHI. FRX-1 became KAGE. A new third mascot, MIRA, joined. Naming is architecture. Here's the 23-file diff and what it taught me about naming as a discipline.

  • branding
  • mascots
  • refactor
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Planned

First short postmortem: what Kling got wrong

Seven shots shipped, four needed a re-gen, one needed a whole new pipeline branch. I'm breaking down every failure — the prompt drift, the hand problem, the physics, the lip-sync. All of it, publicly, so the next short fails differently.

  • postmortem
  • kling
  • video-gen
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The log is ordered newest first. Planned posts are commitments — when a title sits here for more than four weeks without shipping, it means I changed my mind and will explain why in a follow-up.

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