At Mad Saturn Interactive, every new project doubles as a production
experiment. After closing out most of Nodisea 2000 and launching Planet
Glitch, our first project made predominantly with AI, it's time to introduce
Inside: a project that deliberately moves away from both
sci-fi and generative AI, going back to something far more hands-on.
What Inside Is About
Inside is an educational series. Instead of space universes or alien
civilizations, the star of the show is something much more everyday: the
objects and mechanisms we use all the time without ever thinking about how
they actually work. Each episode will take a device or tool — from a padlock
to more complex mechanisms — and take it apart, literally, in 3D, to show its
inner workings step by step.
The curiosity of "how does this actually work?" doesn't need a sci-fi premise
to be interesting. That's the whole idea behind this project.
Why We Won't Use AI to Generate the Scenes
After working with generative AI on Planet Glitch, we made a conscious
decision: Inside will be produced entirely by hand, in Blender and 3ds Max,
with no AI video generation tools.
The reason is simple and comes down to the kind of content we're making. In a
narrative project like Planet Glitch, a small AI visual glitch — an odd
texture, an unnatural movement — mostly goes unnoticed within the story. But
in Inside, the content is the mechanism. If the whole point of the
episode is for the viewer to understand how the parts of a padlock fit
together, any error stops being a cosmetic detail and becomes misinformation.
And this isn't a hypothetical risk. Looking at AI-generated content in this
exact niche — "how does X work" educational videos — we consistently found the
same two problems:
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Parts that appear out of nowhere, with no assembly logic
behind them.
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Inconsistencies in how devices are assembled or taken apart, where the order or position of the parts would never match a real object.
For entertainment content, those flaws are noise. For content that promises to
explain how something works, they're the end of its credibility. That's why,
on Inside, every part and every movement is modeled and animated by hand, with
the same care an engineer would take apart the real object.
We go deeper into this comparison — including cost and quality control — in
our earlier post,
Planet Glitch vs. Inside: Quality Control, AI Costs, and Traditional 3D
Development, where we put side by side the two workflows we're running in parallel this
year: one fully AI-generated, and one fully human-made.
The First Episode: How a Padlock Works
Inside is still in a very early stage of development. We're currently
animating the first episode, which will explain the inner workings of a
padlock: how the pin-and-spring mechanism allows — or prevents — the correct
key from opening it.
We're estimating a launch this September, on our official Rumble, YouTube,
Dailymotion, and Odysee channels.
A Mid-Term Project
While Nodisea 2000 wraps up its story and Chispita takes shape as its narrative
successor, Inside occupies a different space within the studio: educational
content, with no rush to produce fast, built with the same technical rigor we'd
apply to any piece we wanted to be proud to show.
We'd love to hear your thoughts on this approach. And if you'd like to support
the development of Inside and the rest of the studio's projects, you can visit
us on Patreon or contribute via PayPal. It's greatly appreciated.
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