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The
Studio
Cut

Original series in the Mochi house style. Written first. Drawn to stay drawn. One minute, studio finish.

AURA ZERO
LAST TEXT
FINAL BOSS, FIRST DAY
Aura ZeroRevenge · EP 1
Last TextRomance · EP 1
Final Boss, First DayIsekai · EP 1
01 · THE PILOTS

The pilots.

Each series began as a one-page screenplay in the Mochi episode format: a cold open, the turn at thirty seconds, the cliffhanger at fifty-eight. The script sits beside the phone. Press play and watch the lines light as they are spoken. What is on the page is what is on the screen.

OPENTHE TURNCLIFF
0:00
Aura Zero
Episode 1 · Ranking Day · Revenge · Thriller

Everyone at Vermilion High is ranked by aura. Kai's is zero. That is why the thing under the school cannot see him.

Cold open · Classroom 2-B · late afternoon

Cold blue window light, long god-rays in the dust. Every student stands beside a desk. Every steel pin on every lapel is spinning through digits.

Teacher (o.s.)

Ranking day. Pins up.

The pins settle. Soft colors bloom around each student. Marlowe's settles on 1 and his gold flares so bright the desks throw shadows. Kai's pin clicks to 0. No color. The laughter starts small and spreads.

Marlowe

Zero. Again. Does he even show up on the scanner?

Kai

I show up. Nobody looks.

The turn · 0:30

The fluorescents die. Every aura in the room bends toward the floor like smoke pulled into a drain. Marlowe's gold stretches first.

Classmate

What is that?

Dark. The only light left is the light being eaten. Marlowe on his knees, gold draining into the floorboards, his pin ticking 1, then 0. The dark moves through the room feeding, and passes Kai without a pause. He is the only one standing.

Marlowe

It can't see you.

Kai

No one ever could.

Cliffhanger · 0:58

He picks up Marlowe's fallen pin. It reads 1. In his other hand his own pin, still 0, begins to glow a violet black light. The number flickers.

Director's note. The laughter is the monster's dinner bell. We hold on Kai's empty edges before the lights die, so the audience learns to see nothing.

Six lines written · six lines on screen, word for word

OPENTHE TURNCLIFF
0:00
Last Text
Episode 1 · Read Receipt · Romance · Thriller

Ren can read the last text every relationship will ever send. Then he meets a girl whose last text is blank.

Cold open · The crossing · night · rain

Neon in the puddles. Couples under umbrellas. Above every couple floats a pale bubble holding a few words: "we should talk" · "it's not you" · "lol ok".

Ren (v.o.)

Everyone gets a last text. I read it before the first one.

Ren walks through them without looking away. He is used to it.

Ren (v.o.)

Hers said "lol ok." Three weeks.

The turn · 0:30

A bus shelter. A girl alone under the light, red scarf, looking up. Ren looks up too. Above her: nothing. Empty air. He stops in the rain.

Noa

You're staring.

Ren

Sorry. You don't have one.

Above her the air begins to form something: an empty bubble, three dots pulsing. She steps into the rain and looks up at the space above his head, the one place he has never been able to see.

Noa

Neither do you.

Cliffhanger · 0:58

Noa

You can see them too?

Director's note. The bubbles are set in the same type as a real phone. Ren never looks at faces, only above them, until the one place he cannot see.

Six lines written · six lines on screen, word for word

OPENTHE TURNCLIFF
0:00
Final Boss,
First Day
Episode 1 · Orientation · Isekai · Action · Comedy

He woke up in the Demon King's body. The heroes arrived ten minutes later.

Cold open · The throne hall

Obsidian columns, rivers of magma under a glass floor. Dan wakes on the throne, looks down at clawed hands the size of chairs, and tries to scream. What comes out shakes dust from the ceiling. His tail takes out a column.

Grub

Sire. The heroes are at the gate.

Dan

The what?

The gates explode inward. The party charges. Dan puts both hands up, palms out, the universal gesture.

Dan

Wait, wait, I'm new!

The turn · 0:30

A violet beam fires from his open palm on its own and removes the roof. Daylight pours into hell. The fight: the knight comes in low, Dan dodges by falling over. Every hit lands a lesson. By the third exchange he is blocking with a wing he did not know he had. The clash tears the knight's helm free. Auburn ponytail. A scar on the chin.

Dan

Mia?

Cliffhanger · 0:58

Mia

Took you long enough.

Director's note. All the comedy is posture. The face is a demon's, the shoulders are Dan's. The fight is a lesson plan, one move per hit.

Five lines written · five lines on screen, word for word

02 · TWO FINISHES
House · the Mochi lookStudio · the lift
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Same scene.
Two finishes.

The ranking moment from AURA ZERO, drawn twice from the same script and the same cast sheets. Left, the house style Mochi runs today, done properly. Right, the same fifteen seconds with a theatrical finish. Replicate the look, or lift it. Same minute either way.

HouseStudio
LineThin sharp ink, two-tone cel shadow, glossy hair.The same ink, plus a painted bounce light on every face.
BackgroundFlat classroom, one key light from the window.Painted depth, dust in the god-rays, parallax between the desks.
MotionHeld poses, cuts on the lines.Follow-through in the hair and blazers, a slow drift through the room.
LightThe auras glow.The auras re-light the desks beside them; Marlowe's gold re-lights the room.
SoundPins, one cello, the laughter.The cello blooms into a full string chord on the gold.
03 · THE CAST

Designed before
the first scene.

Every lead has a model sheet before a single scene is drawn: three views, two expressions, one drawing. That is how the cast stays the cast in every shot of every episode, and it is the sheet an animator keeps pinned above the desk.

Kai model sheet
KaiAura ZeroSeventeen. Ranked zero since the day pins were invented. The only student at Vermilion High who has never been looked at, which turns out to be a superpower.
Marlowe model sheet
MarloweAura ZeroSeventeen. Number one, and wears it like a coat. The first person the thing under the school takes, and the first to understand what Kai is.
Ren model sheet
RenLast TextNineteen. Reads the last text of every relationship before the first one is sent. Has stopped trying to warn anyone.
Noa model sheet
NoaLast TextEighteen. A transfer student with no ending written above her head. Owns the only red scarf in the city.
Dan model sheet
DanFinal Boss, First DayTwenty-eight. An office worker who woke up as the Demon King. Nine feet of armor, the posture of a man in a waiting room.
Mia model sheet
MiaFinal Boss, First DayTwenty-seven. The knight sent to kill the Demon King. Ghosted Dan two years ago. Has one line, and has been waiting to say it.
04 · THE WORLDS

Painted once.

The world of each series is designed as a set of plates before the episode is shot: the room, the street, the hall, and the one frame the whole minute is built to reach. The same classroom is in every shot of AURA ZERO because there is only one classroom.

Aura ZeroRanking day
Aura ZeroThe feeding
Last TextThe crossing
Last TextThe shelter
Final BossThe throne hall
Final BossThe caught blade

Title cards are cut from each world's own material: steel for the pin, a message bubble for the text, obsidian for the boss.

AURA ZERO title card LAST TEXT title card FINAL BOSS, FIRST DAY title card
05 · THE SEASON

Aura Zero,
the first thirty days.

A season is written before a frame is drawn. The cliffhanger of each minute is the cold open of the next, and every ten episodes the number moves. The full arc for one series, so a daily drop is a schedule, not a gamble.

IThe Ranking

The school ranks him last. The thing under the school ranks him invisible.

  1. 01Ranking Day
  2. 02The Pin That Reads One
  3. 03Nobody Looks
  4. 04Under the School
  5. 05The Scanner Room
  6. 06Marlowe Wakes Up Grey
  7. 07The Second Feeding
  8. 08Aura for Sale
  9. 09The Girl Ranked Two
  10. 10The Number Moves

IIThe Feeding

Zero can walk where no one else can. Everyone who has ever laughed needs him now.

  1. 11What Zero Sees
  2. 12The Teacher's Pin
  3. 13A Rank Is a Cage
  4. 14Marlowe Asks for Help
  5. 15The Ledger of Names
  6. 16Ranked Two Follows Him
  7. 17The Basement Door
  8. 18Every Pin in the City
  9. 19The Board Reads Kai
  10. 20It Learns to Look

IIIThe Number

The violet light has a price, and the thing has learned his name.

  1. 21The Violet Light
  2. 22Nobody's Shadow
  3. 23The First Zero
  4. 24The Founder's Pin
  5. 25A School With No Numbers
  6. 26Marlowe's Gold Returns
  7. 27The Feeding Stops
  8. 28What He Gave It
  9. 29Ranking Day, Again
  10. 30The Number Is Nothing
30 episodes · one minute each3 turns · every tenth minuteevery episode ends on the next one's cold open
06 · THE METHOD

How a minute
gets made.

The same departments an animation studio runs, sized to a one-minute episode and a daily drop. Every department answers to the script.

01

The Writers' Room

One page, one minute. The turn at thirty seconds, the cliffhanger at fifty-eight. The season is arced before the first episode is drawn.

02

Design

Model sheets before the first scene. Three views, two expressions, one drawing. The cast stays the cast.

03

Backgrounds

The world is painted once and lives in every shot: the same classroom, the same rain, the same throne.

04

The Animation Floor

Acting in the hands and the eyes. Choreography, smears, impact frames. Motion, not a held drawing with a drift.

05

The Sound Stage

Performed lines, foley, a score written to the beats, a mix with headroom. Every scripted word is checked against the finished sound.

The script is
the contract.
17 / 17lines written · lines on screen
across the three pilots
07 · THE MINUTE
0:00

And the minute
itself.

The spot the studio would cut for the app, in the same house style as the shows it sells. One stop on the train is one minute. One minute on Mochi is a season. The doors open on the line.

:15 verticalthe app's own line closes itthree worlds in one window
08

Same style.
Same minute.
Studio finish.

RitualAds is a creative studio for brand film: from a single line of brief we build the whole campaign world, concepts, boards and finished moving pictures, made end to end under one roof. Everything above, the scripts, the cast, the worlds and the pilots, was written, designed and directed by our studio, brief to finished pilots in a day.

Everything above took one day.
The meeting takes thirty minutes.

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