"On a remote peninsula after the old world breaks, a group of surviving Russian grandmothers discovers the Babushka AI and begins rebuilding a city around it."
Been experimenting with a full opening-title sequence concept for BABUSHKA, my sci-fi universe set around the city of Gred on the Kamchatka Peninsula. I’ve already written the books, so this is me starting to explore what the series could feel like on screen.
The whole thing was generated with GPT-Image 2 for the stills, then animated sequence-by-sequence using Seedance 2.0, then cut together in CapCut.
The visual language is supposed to feel like a physically real woven artifact. Wool, thread, embroidery, frost, circuitry, old Soviet civic imagery, neural systems, cathedrals, military insignias, volcanic tundra. Basically trying to make the history of the world feel stitched together rather than digitally rendered clean.
The sequence itself runs through major historical events before the novels begin. Collapse in male births, the rise of the Babushka AI, reconstruction around Gred, the War of Formation, factional conflict, and the emergence of the city-state that the books take place in.