u/SatisfactionMuch2835

Hey everyone. I tried to post this yesterday but I'm new to reddit and I don't think it went through so I'm trying again. Dad to three girls (7, 4, and 2) here. They're my whole world and honestly my biggest source of inspiration for pretty much everything I do these days.

Wife and I got fed up with the junk that kept ending up on our TV whenever YouTube was on for the kids. So I decided to try and create an animated series based on my girls' actual personalities, things they love...7yo is a ballerina, 4 yo scientist and 2yo little explorer.

I'm not a professional animator or designer. I edited a company video about some heavy machinery about 10 years ago thats about it... But I taught myself over the past couple months and made three episodes so far. My girls watch them on repeat and ask for "their show" by name now, which honestly might be the proudest I've felt about a project in a long time. Rather have them watching this then the other stuff. PBS its pretty solid, but Youtube is stealing their attention with weird unboxing vids and rich influencer families...

My wife's been pushing me to actually put it out there instead of just keeping it for our living room so I finally did.

Curious what you all think — as fellow girl dads, does this resonate? Anyone else doing something like this? Would love feedback, and happy to share a link to the first episode if anyone's curious.

Hey guys. Glad I found this page. I've got 3 young daughters (7,4 & 2) and they inspire me all the time. I like to think of myself as a somewhat creative person but I'm not professionally trained in graphic design or animation or anything like that. I was super annoyed by the junk that kept coming into our family TV on youtube. So I decided to learn how to make them a little animated series based on their own personalities, likes and interest.

I researched the best way-- built them unique character cards after tons of trial and error. After about a month I developed a workflow like this: Create a script outline and lyrics for a matching song for every episode--- Claude support for GPT Image Prompts---GPT Image prompts --- (tons of trial and error to hold character consistency)--- GPT Image to Grok Imagine--- Grok Imagine -- Capcut...Trying 11 lab voices but struggling to get them to match...It's something I need to overcome for sure...

I learned all of these tools myself...never really edited anything before but I'm getting the hang of it. I've made about 3 episodes and my little girls LOVE it. It's fun wholesome with memorable songs...

My wife says hey this is really great- you should put it on youtube. So I did just a few days ago...I shared with an artist friend of mine and received this HUGE backlash (This isn't art!, AI is stealing from artists, this isn't original)

To be honest I didn't know the issue was so contentious for some. I created this series for my kids as a fun project, they inspire me, and I wanted to create something for them with the only tools I could find.

Anyone experience this kind of "negativity"? Anyone here want to check out the first episode I made for the girls? I'm going to keep making these for my kids no matter what, I guess I'm just wondering if it's worth sharing these with the world...

Thanks everyone!