Stick stories · 09:41 · Stills
Why your first $1,000 is the hardest money you'll ever save
Deceptively simple. The style that makes a 10-minute essay feel like three.
Stage 01 · input
What was typed
This is the entire brief. Nothing else was written by hand.
Theme
Stick stories
Target
09:41
Mode
Stills
Stage 02 · script
The hook it wrote
Saving a thousand dollars is not a maths problem. If it were, you would have done it already. It is a problem about who you are when nobody is watching and the money is just sitting there.
Words
1,465
Sections
6
Runtime
09:41
Stage 03 · character
Milo, from every angle
Generated once, then locked. Every scene featuring Milo is conditioned on this sheet, so the character cannot drift between scene 3 and scene 47.
Stage 04 · storyboard
47 scenes, timed to the narration
Narration is split into scenes and every one gets an illustration. This is the point where the run pauses and waits for approval.
Scene 1 · 0:00
A single stick figure, an enormous empty frame
Scene 9 · 1:22
Pushing a coin larger than itself uphill
Scene 16 · 3:04
Head in hands, the coin rolled back down
Scene 28 · 5:38
A wall of tiny identical coins, drawn one at a time
Scene 47 · 9:12
Standing on the coin, flag planted, tiny
Stage 05 · thumbnail
Three variations, 1280×720
VAR_01VAR_02VAR_03Stage 06 · publishing kit
Ready to paste into YouTube
Title options
- Why Your First $1,000 Is The Hardest Money You'll Ever Save
- The First $1,000 Is Not A Maths Problem
- Nobody Warns You About The First $1,000
Description
Saving a thousand dollars is not a maths problem — if it were, you would have done it already. A short, plainly drawn explanation of why the first thousand is the hardest, and what actually changes after it.
Tags
Runtime
09:41
Scenes
47
Generation time
19 min
Cost to produce
$2.94
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