EST. LAUNCH · NOVEMBER · 2026
Join the Waitlist
Are you frustrated that you're not finishing your animated short, even though you've been “working on” it for years?
Go from “I'm working on it” to a finished animated short in 90 days, on a custom plan tailored to your life. Only 6 spots available. Once they fill up they are gone, join the waitlist today!
Join the waitlist and get:
✓ First access, before we announce it anywhere
✓ A mini SFX pack for your short, free to use in paid and unpaid projects, no credit needed
If you join the waitlist, you'll solve these 3 key problems:
1. Sitting down and not knowing what to do.
2. Not having the time to finish a short.
3. Planning a film too big to finish on your own.
We're Xavier and Joel.
We're brothers, we went to Art School together (Cooper Union) and we've been making indie animated films for over 10 years. We finished a 1:19 short, NDF, in two and a half years at 20 to 30 minutes a day, around our day jobs and premiered it this year February 6, 2026 on IG. Now at 38K views.
Then we did it in 90 days: our latest short, Toby and Terry, premiered 14 September 2026. Also around our day jobs of 32-40 hours a week.
Our shorts have screened at:
The Peoples Film Festival, New York
Short Long World Festival, Argentina
and we were also Animation Nights New York (ANNY) semi-finalists
In 2016 we were 1 of 6 semi-finalists out of 700 at the Miami International Animation Conference.
(left to right: With Bill Plympton, the 'King of Indie Animation', with Fred Seibert, founder of Frederator Studios, at the Peoples Film Festival premiere of Tommy The Hamster, and with Leah Hoyer, former Disney Director of Original Programming)
What people say about our Survival Kit, the system this is built on:
"I'm horrible at planning and production tracking, so this really helps me out a lot to be better organized."
James W. Suhr, storyboard artist on Gravity Falls, Big Hero 6: The Series and Despicable Me
"The idea of bitesize chunks every day helped me get through the fear… If I only have bandwidth for ten minutes of adding colour or shading to one pose in one second's worth of animation, that's still progress."
Rebecca
"It's really helping me get back on track."
Maria
What you're waiting for
A 90-day program where we build a custom plan tailored to your life, check in with you at the moments films usually die, and premiere your finished short on our Instagram. We're calling it:
90 Days Short. Fit to Life.
6 spots only because we build every plan ourselves.
Next intake opens November.
Join the waiting list to get first access, and the free SFX pack.
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