The Featherweights - GALAXY WARRIORS
Official Music Video
featuring Space Chiken & Bacon theCat
ANGIE JONES /DIRECTOR
PROJECT STATUS
In Development /
Grant-Funded Short Film
CATEGORY
Animated Narrative Short / AI Filmmaking
TOOLS
Absurd.ai
Marble by World Labs
Seedance 2.0
Nano Banana
Luma Dream Machine
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Premiere Pro
ROLE
Creator / Director
Animation Director
Writer
Character Designer
Editor
Generative Workflow Design
Behind the Work
Project Overview
Galaxy Warriors is an original AI-assisted animated music video created, directed, and edited by Angie Jones. Developed as a proof of concept for the larger Space Chiken & Bacon theCat universe, the film combines character performance, comedy, music, and cinematic action within a finished narrative piece.
When Space Chiken and Bacon theCat blast across the galaxy to see their favorite band, asteroid fields, solar flares, Chancellor Static, and the mysterious Devil’s Gate stand between them and the ultimate Featherweights concert. Set to the rebellious anthem “Galaxy Warriors,” the story is powered by friendship, courage, and questionable decision-making.
Purpose of the Test
The primary goal was to determine whether generative tools could support a character-driven animated story while maintaining enough visual and performance continuity to create a cohesive finished film.
The test focused on several essential questions:
Could the characters remain recognizable across independently generated shots?
Could performance, comedy, and personality survive changes in staging, action, and camera angle?
Could action sequences maintain enough spatial and visual continuity to remain readable?
Could independently generated material be directed and edited into a coherent narrative?
Could generative filmmaking support an original visual world rather than dictate its design or storytelling?
The production combined Seedance, Nano Banana, Luma, and ComfyUI with Photoshop and Premiere Pro, using traditional direction and editorial judgment to shape generated material into the final film.
The Sequence
The film follows Space Chiken and Bacon theCat as they race across the galaxy to reach a Featherweights concert, encountering asteroid fields, solar flares, Chancellor Static, and the mysterious Devil’s Gate along the way.
The sequence was designed to test character continuity, action staging, comedy, camera movement, environmental scale, and whether independently generated shots could be assembled into a clear and entertaining narrative progression.
Creative Direction and Process
I began with the established character designs and story concept, then developed the film as a sequence of planned visual beats built around the “Galaxy Warriors” track.
I generated and evaluated each shot for character fidelity, staging, action clarity, performance, camera direction, and continuity with the surrounding material. I revised, rebuilt, or rejected shots that drifted from the designs, confused the action, or failed to support the intended performance.
I shaped the final film editorially in Premiere Pro, using timing, music, shot order, transitions, and selective visual refinement to turn independently generated material into a cohesive cinematic sequence.
What the Test Demonstrated
Galaxy Warriors was my first substantial experiment with generative AI as a filmmaking tool. I used the project to test whether these tools could support the kind of work I already knew how to direct - character animation, live action, performance, music, comedy, and cinematic storytelling - without taking control of the story away from me.
My first priority was character fidelity. Space Chiken and Bacon theCat were designed traditionally in Maya and rendered in Redshift, so the challenge was to determine whether generative tools could preserve those designs through radically different shots, performances, environments, and camera angles.
I also wanted to see how closely I could make the generated material follow the film I already saw in my mind. The tools could propose solutions, but they could not invent a different narrative, alter the characters' personalities, or redirect the film's visual language.
One of the most significant discoveries came through performance. Using animation principles I had relied on throughout my career, I developed a way to synchronize non-native singing to the characters without relying on additional lip-sync tools. The solution came less from the technology itself than from applying traditional animation thinking to a new filmmaking process.
The edit became another major part of the experiment. Shots generated independently still had to function as a sequence, maintain continuity, communicate story beats, land comedy, and stay connected to the music. Much of the final filmmaking happened through selection, restructuring, timing, and editorial judgment.
Most importantly, the project allowed me to finally execute a story I had been carrying for more than a year. I had originally imagined producing it through a traditional combination of live-action photography and CG animation - a process that would have required considerably more time, people, and production resources. Generative tools did not replace the directing or filmmaking decisions, but they changed the scale of what I could realistically attempt on my own.
Galaxy Warriors became the project where I began learning how quickly these tools evolve - and how quickly a filmmaker has to think, adapt, and make decisions alongside them.
Where It Goes Next
Galaxy Warriors proved this world could grow beyond a single music video. The next step is Space Chiken & Bacon theCat: Don’t Go Home, an approximately three-minute animated short now in development with support from the 2026 NewNarratives Absurd AI Storytelling Grant. The new film expands the characters, world, and narrative ambitions of the project while building on everything I learned through Galaxy Warriors - stronger continuity, more controlled performance, more deliberate world-building, and a filmmaking process increasingly shaped around what these tools can do when they are directed rather than simply used. The larger goal is to develop Space Chiken & Bacon theCat into an ongoing series of character-driven stories that can continue to evolve as both the filmmaking tools and my own approach to them evolve.
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