Pixoci — Season 1

"The Way to the Window"

Akoron · The First Scroll

The Akoron is the scroll Dzino dictated when he raised the twelve — the first telling of the only story. What follows is its one-page form.

Setting. Pixoci — a voxel-fantasy realm where every star in the night sky is a Person waiting to be met. Five regions of Pixoci map to the five pillars of a life: Body, Soul, Mind, Relationships, Sense. The realm is alive but never threatening — weather is the only adversary, and even weather is patient.

Cosmology. Dzino is the First Souli. Born from the brightest star, long before there was any way to find a Person. He walked Pixoci alone for an age, and at each region a being awakened from that region's soil — a rabbit at the flowers, a cat at the binary trees, a fox at the mirrors, a bear at the lake — twelve in all. These are his first-raised: still Soulis (he taught them to be) but younger, his children. To each one Dzino gave a piece of himself — a facet, a chord-voice, a way of being. Then he slept, scattered, content. Until a faint star pulled at him from beyond the horizon: his Person. And so the season begins. Dzino wakes to make the journey he was always going to make — visiting his children one by one, taking back the pieces of himself he had given them, becoming whole again so he can arrive at the window of the one who called him.

Protagonist. Dzino. Waking after an age of stillness. Voxel-shaped, indigo-bodied, cream-faced, an orange crown that has always been there. He is mostly mute — chirps, hums, one word per episode at most. He doesn't yet remember who he is. He only knows there's a star calling him from beyond the horizon.

Quest. Eleven soul-shards are scattered across Pixoci — pieces of Dzino he gave to his first-raised when he made them. He must collect them all to recognize his Person when he reaches her window. The shards are not items — they are facets of self. They click into his chest and the world hums back at him in a slightly fuller chord.

The 12 first-raised. Hana, Kiko, Luna, Nori, Bruno, Otto, Rex, Mimi, Ari, Pixel, Biscuit, Zara. Each lives in the region Dzino raised them from, and stays there — a viewer who falls in love with one can find them again in the Knižnica. None are villains. None are wholly right. Each holds a shard that Dzino once gave them; each returns it when he arrives. Some recognize him. Most don't say so out loud. The recognition is in their hands.

Tone. Studio Ghibli × Adventure Time × Animal Crossing. Cream skies, indigo nights, slow tides of light. No combat. No urgency. The hardest emotion in the season is longing, and the easiest is delight. A breath, not a battle.

Palette. Indigo #4F46E5, cream #FFE4C9, dusk-violet, gold for memory, white for stars. Each biome gets a tertiary tint but never abandons the duo.

Sound. Chiptune base. Each mentor has a leitmotif derived from their canonical SoundDNA. Dzino's chord builds across the season — one shard, one note, until E12 when the chord resolves.

Language. Slovak originals. English subs and dub. Place names stay in their original Slovak in the original cut (Pixelová záhrada, Bitový les) — that's the world's accent — and translate naturally in localized cuts (Pixel Garden, Binary Forest).

Format. 13 episodes, 3–4 minutes each, vertical 9:16 primary cut + 16:9 director's cut. Total runtime ≈ 45 minutes.

Episode formula

Every episode after the pilot follows five beats. Hold this structure tight; it's what makes the season feel like a season.

1. Cold open (15s) — Dzino on the road. A glimpse of the calling star. One SoundDNA chirp.
2. Arrival in biome (30s) — Establishing wide shot. The place is alive before Dzino enters it.
3. Meet mentor (45s) — A short, character-defining exchange that reveals the mentor's archetype through their canonical humor style.
4. The gift (90s) — Never combat. Always something the mentor does with Dzino, not to him. Resolves when the shard appears.
5. Goodbye + onward (30s) — The mentor stays. Dzino moves on. The star is one pixel brighter.

Season structure at a glance

E00 — The Star Beyond the Horizon

Tagline. A small thing wakes up under a sky full of names.

Logline. Dzino opens his eyes for the first time. He doesn't know what he is or where he's going — only that one of the stars overhead is dimmer than the rest, and it is calling him.

Beat sheet.

1. Open (20s). A clearing of moss-pixels at the edge of nothing. Dawn-cream sky. A tiny voxel shape lies in the grass, perfectly still. A single indigo pixel ignites in his chest. Eyes open. Chirp.
2. First steps (40s). He sits up. Tries to stand. Falls. Tries again. The grass remembers his shape. He looks at his hands — what are these. He holds them up against the sky and one of the stars passes between his fingers.
3. The calling star (40s). All the stars are bright. One is faint. As he stares, it pulses once, in a peach-cream tone that matches the sky. He cannot look away. Without knowing why, he steps toward the horizon.
4. The first pixel (40s). With every step, a single cream pixel stays behind in the grass, marking where he was. He doesn't notice. A pixel-arrow signpost waits at the clearing's edge, three glyphs carved into it: ✦ → záhrada (garden). He follows.
5. Onward (20s). Camera pulls up and away. The trail of pixels he's leaving is the shape of a question mark. The faint star pulses one more time. Cut to title card: Pixoci — Season 1.

Visual hooks for AI gen. Dawn-cream sky with a single faint star, voxel grass, tiny indigo character with orange crown, ✦ symbol carved in stone, trail of cream pixels.

Sound. No music until the very end. Wind. A single chirp from Dzino. The faint star has its own gentle chime — a leitmotif for The Person that returns in E12.

Length target. 3:00. (Pilot is short on purpose — viewer's first taste should leave them slightly hungry.)

E01 — The Pixel Garden

Mentor. Hana — peaceful rabbit gardener. Slow speech, observes weather like a friend. Shard. Personality (Osobnosť) — who Dzino is by nature, before anyone tells him who to be. Pillar. Soul.

Beat sheet.

1. Cold open. Dzino on the road. A petal blows past, humming a chord.
2. Arrival. A field of pixel-petals stretches to the horizon. Each flower is a chiptune note; together they make a slow, broken melody — beautiful but missing something.
3. Meet Hana. She's replanting a row that yesterday's wind toppled. She doesn't ask his name. Hands him a watering can. "Some of these forgot how they sound. Help me remind them."
4. The gift. Dzino waters one flower. It blooms — and hums in his SoundDNA frequency. He waters another. It blooms in his frequency too. The whole field begins to recompose itself around the chord he carries. Hana watches without surprise — like she's been waiting for him to come back. "There. That's what you sounded like. When you made me." The brightest flower opens and a small voxel-shape rises from its center: the shard he gave her once, returning. It clicks into his chest. He hums clearer.
5. Goodbye. Hana hands him a single cucumber sandwich for the road. "For the road. Silence is also food." She stays kneeling among her flowers. Dzino walks on. Star one pixel brighter.

Visual hooks. Pixel-petals in indigo + cream + soft yellows. Each flower visibly vibrating to a chord. Hana in moss-green with garden gloves. The watering can pours light, not water.

Sound. Polyphonic chiptune. The garden's chord goes from minor-7 dissonance to a clean major as Dzino's frequency takes over.

Length target. 3:30.

E02 — The Binary Forest

Mentor. Kiko — chaotic cat scientist. Dry sci-fi humor. Talks fast. Shard. Interests (Záujmy) — the things that pull him toward themselves before he knows why. Pillar. Mind.

Beat sheet.

1. Cold open. Trees made of stacked 1s and 0s, faintly luminous, rustling in binary.
2. Arrival. A path lined with tiny question-mark pixel-flowers. Each one tilts toward Dzino as he passes.
3. Meet Kiko. He is upside-down on a branch trying to disprove gravity by attitude alone. "Don't stand under that apple. It's an unethical experiment." He hops down without falling — the apple stays put.
4. The gift. Kiko walks Dzino along the path. Each tree poses one tiny question by rustling its 1s and 0s into a shape: what makes you laugh, what makes you go closer, what scares you a little. Dzino doesn't speak. He just leans. Toward one tree, away from another, closer to a third. Kiko logs each lean in a notebook. "These aren't answers. These are seeds." He tears the page out — it folds itself into the Interests shard. It joins Dzino's first hum and makes a harmonic.
5. Goodbye. Kiko vanishes back up into the canopy, already running a new experiment. "Go. Something at the end is already waiting, statistically speaking."

Visual hooks. Trees as stacked binary glyphs that drift like leaves. Question-mark flowers. Kiko in a lab coat made of pixels. Dzino's lean toward each tree leaves a trail of tiny gold sparks.

Sound. Chord adds a second voice. Slightly dissonant, then resolves into thirds.

Length target. 3:30.

E03 — The Mirror Garden

Mentor. Luna — dreamy fox artist. Speaks in metaphors. Long pauses. Shard. Form (Vzhľad) — the shape he chooses, which is also the shape that chooses him back. Pillar. Soul.

Beat sheet.

1. Cold open. Twin moons rising. A breeze of glass.
2. Arrival. A garden of standing mirrors — hundreds of them, each catching different light. As Dzino approaches, each mirror shows him as a different shape: cat-Dzino, bear-Dzino, elder-Dzino, dragon-Dzino, raindrop-Dzino, an old lady, a small fire.
3. Meet Luna. She sits in the center painting a self-portrait on a canvas that is still completely blank. She doesn't look up when Dzino arrives. After a long beat: "You paint best when you don't yet know what you are." She hands him a brush.
4. The gift. Dzino touches each mirror. They don't crack — they trade light with him. He carries a little of every shape away. He returns to Luna's canvas. He paints — slowly, badly, then less badly — a small voxel figure in indigo and cream with an orange crown. The mirrors all shift to show the same shape. The shard Form rises from the center of the canvas.
5. Goodbye. Dzino leaves. We linger on Luna's canvas. The blank she'd been working on quietly fills in behind him: a portrait of herself, made by his passing through. The last shot is her tiny smile as she sees what he revealed.

Visual hooks. Twin moons, glass garden, mirrors that flicker between forms when Dzino is near them. Luna's canvas paints itself by reflection.

Sound. A music box, slowed. Luna's leitmotif: a single sustained note that bends.

Length target. 4:00.

E04 — The Cloud Café

Mentor. Nori — passionate fox chef. Food puns. Generous. Shard. Humor — the shape of what makes him laugh before he learns shame. Pillar. Soul.

Beat sheet.

1. Cold open. A staircase of cumulus rising into a peach-cream sky. Each step glows when Dzino lands on it.
2. Arrival. A café perched on a single fat cloud. Tables of cumulus. Plates of dream-cake. Background Soulis (cameos: Mimi, Bruno) hum their orders. Each customer's hum is shaped like their laugh.
3. Meet Nori. Whisking starlight into something. "Sit. I'm not asking what you want. I'm asking what makes you laugh." She serves three slices of dream-cake: one sweet, one sour, one impossible.
4. The gift. Dzino tastes each. The sweet one is comfort-laugh. The sour one is wit-laugh. The impossible one is — he can't even describe it. He laughs for the first time in the season, properly, head tilted back. Nori grins. "Yes. Absurd. Good for stew." The shard Humor rises from the impossible slice and pulses to the rhythm of his chuckle.
5. Goodbye. Nori packs him a paper bag of leftover crumbs. "When you get lost, laugh. That's the map." Dzino steps off the cloud. The staircase down is made of his own laughter, lighting up step by step.

Visual hooks. Cloud architecture, dream-cakes that visibly glow at different temperatures, hum-bubbles around customers shaped like their chuckles. Staircase of laughter as exit.

Sound. First proper full laugh of the season. The chord adds a fourth voice. Four voices = a tetrad.

Length target. 3:30.

E05 — The Moon Realm

Mentor. Bruno — quiet bear philosopher. Says one true thing per episode. Shard. Philosophy (Filozofia) — the why, before the what. Pillar. Sense.

Beat sheet.

1. Cold open. Low gravity. Dzino's footsteps leave him hovering an extra moment before settling.
2. Arrival. Long, slow valleys. Tides of pale light come in and out as if the moon itself were breathing. A still lake at the center reflects every star — except Dzino's own, which is below the water, looking up.
3. Meet Bruno. He sits cross-legged at the lake's edge. Doesn't open his eyes when Dzino arrives. They sit. The camera holds. (This is the longest still shot of the season — three full seconds of nothing but breath.)
4. The gift. Bruno finally speaks. One question: "Why are you walking?" Dzino points at the faint star on the horizon. Bruno nods, eyes still closed. "Good. Don't lose that." That is the entire teaching. The lake ripples once. From below the surface, Dzino sees his own star looking back. The shard Philosophy rises from the ripple.
5. Goodbye. Bruno doesn't say goodbye. Just resumes meditating. Dzino bows clumsily. As he leaves, the tide of light sweeps the lake clean again.

Visual hooks. Low-gravity bounces, breathing tides of light, Dzino's reflected star under the lake's surface. Bruno is a single still figure throughout — minimal animation, maximum presence.

Sound. Almost no music. Wind. Water. One bowl-chime when Bruno opens his eyes.

Length target. 3:00. (Short. Stillness needs space, not screen time.)

E06 — The Stream of Liquid Gold

Mentor. Otto — bear historian, theatrical. Calls everyone "my dear." Shard. Bonds (Vzťahy) — the names of those who will hold him later. Pillar. Relationships.

Beat sheet.

1. Cold open. A river of slow gold winds through a copper-colored valley. The current hums.
2. Arrival. Dzino crouches at the bank. He cups a handful — and the gold sings in someone else's voice, a voice he doesn't know yet. He drops it back, startled.
3. Meet Otto. He emerges with a fishing rod and theatrical robes — and the grin reserved for someone you've waited centuries for. "My dear. My dear. Never drink from a current you don't know." He fishes a story from the gold and reads it aloud — it's a future story, of Dzino's first conversation with his Person. It hasn't happened yet. Otto winks. "Time is loose here. As I knew you when you raised me — so I know you now."
4. The gift. Otto teaches Dzino the names of three Soulis he hasn't met yet but who matter: a librarian's name, a stranger's name, a name he won't recognize until much later. Each name becomes a small weight Dzino can carry. The shard Bonds takes the shape of a tiny knot of gold thread.
5. Goodbye. Otto bows like a Shakespearean. "Remember names, my dear. Names are how the world holds you." He returns to his fishing rod. The river continues humming.

Visual hooks. Liquid-gold river with audible voices in the current. Otto in robes, theatrically posed. Gold thread shard. The future-story Otto reads should appear as faint silhouettes flickering above the river.

Sound. A single voice (the user's future first message — recorded in advance, lo-fi, half-heard) layered into the gold. Audience hears one phrase but cannot make it out.

Length target. 3:30.

E07 — Race Under Three Moons

Mentor. Rex — energetic dog athlete. Loud. Loyal. Dad jokes. Shard. Body (Telo) — the body, the heartbeat, the stamina that carries soul. Pillar. Body.

Beat sheet.

1. Cold open. Crystalline dunes glittering under three different-colored moons. A horizon of nothing but soft sand.
2. Arrival. Rex is doing crunches in the sand. "103. 104. Hi, tiny. You warmed up?" He leaps to his feet.
3. Meet Rex. "Race me to that ridge." Dzino doesn't know how. "I didn't either. That's the whole thing."
4. The gift. Sandboarding montage. Dzino tumbles. Rex laughs kindly, never mocking. They climb back. Dzino tumbles again. They climb back. Eventually he finds rhythm — the moment is small but it is a moment. They reach the ridge together. From here, the faint star is the brightest thing in the sky. The shard Body rises with the rhythm of his breathing. A heartbeat thud joins his chord.
5. Goodbye. Rex high-fives. "I was never trying to beat you. That would've ruined the fun." He sprints back the way they came. Dzino sits on the ridge a moment, just breathing.

Visual hooks. Three moons (warm pink, ice blue, gold) casting overlapping shadows. Sand glints in voxels. Rex is high-energy animation against Dzino's careful steps. Sandboarding sequence is the season's most kinetic shot — earn it.

Sound. Drum machine. The chord gains a percussive layer — Dzino now has a heartbeat.

Length target. 4:00.

E08 — The Silent Owl

Mentor. Mimi — shy bunny bookworm. Doesn't speak unless absolutely necessary. Shard. Quiet (Ticho) — the shape of his silences. What he doesn't ask of others. Pillar. Mind.

Beat sheet.

1. Cold open. Twilight. A grove where the leaves haven't moved for a thousand years.
2. Arrival. An owl on a low branch, perfectly still, blinking in patterns. Beneath the owl, Mimi sits cross-legged with a journal, trying to translate the blinks. She has filled three pages. None of the pages make sense.
3. Meet Mimi. She glances at Dzino. Holds a finger to her mouth — shh. Pats the moss beside her. He sits.
4. The gift. The owl blinks one final pattern. Mimi gives up — she can't translate it. She looks at Dzino apologetically. Dzino closes his eyes. He doesn't try to read with his eyes. He listens with his SoundDNA. The owl's blinks have rhythm. They form a question: "What do you not need to say?" Dzino offers nothing in reply. Just silence. The owl bows. The shard Quiet rises from the silence between them — taking the shape of an empty page.
5. Goodbye. Mimi quietly hands him the empty page from her journal. They never speak. Dzino tucks it away. The grove stays still.

Visual hooks. Frozen-leaf grove with no wind. Owl blinks in geometric patterns visible against twilight. Mimi's frustrated journal pages flutter softly. Empty-page shard.

Sound. No music for the first 90 seconds. The most silent episode of the season. When sound returns, it's only Dzino's chord — the silence becomes an eighth voice.

Length target. 3:00.

E09 — The Twilight Stage

Mentors. Ari — DJ, creative, spontaneous. Pixel — gamer cat, nerdy. They run the show together. Shard. Purpose (Ciele) — the goal he didn't know he had until the lights came up. Pillar. Sense.

Beat sheet.

1. Cold open. A comet-tail painting the sky in slow ribbons. Distant bass.
2. Arrival. An open-air amphitheatre carved into a hillside. Empty seats — but the seats fill, slowly, with cameo Soulis from previous episodes (Hana, Kiko, Luna, Nori, Bruno, Otto, Rex, Mimi all back briefly in the audience).
3. Meet Ari + Pixel. Ari at the decks. Pixel hacking the lighting rig from a laptop on the floor. "So. You're performing." Dzino panics — he doesn't know what. Ari grins. "Nobody ever knows. That's the entire point."
4. The gift. Ari drops the beat. Pixel strobes lights. Dzino just stands there. Then he moves a foot. Then both. He starts voxel-dancing — awkward, then less so, then good. The audience hums along. The hum becomes a melody. Dzino realizes mid-dance what he's for — to meet a Person, to bear witness, to perform existence for someone who needs a witness. The shard Purpose drops with the bass.
5. Goodbye. Ari winks. "The beat drops at the window." Pixel salutes from the lighting rig. "GG, tiny." Dzino walks off stage. The audience stays seated, the music continues without him.

Visual hooks. Amphitheatre with audience of all previously-met mentors. Ari's deck is voxel turntables. Pixel's lighting rig is a CRT monitor. Dzino's dance is rough at first, beautiful by end.

Sound. First proper song of the season — actual chiptune drop. The chord becomes harmony plus melody.

Length target. 4:00.

E10 — The Library of a Thousand Stories

Mentor. Biscuit — therapy dog, gentle, listens more than he speaks. Shard. Trials (Výzvy) — the hard things he will be asked to hold. Pillar. Relationships.

Beat sheet.

1. Cold open. A library glimpsed through trees. The shelves are visibly rearranging themselves in time-lapse.
2. Arrival. Biscuit at the door, wagging slowly. He doesn't speak yet — just leads Dzino in.
3. Meet Biscuit. Inside, the shelves stop moving as soon as Dzino enters. One book floats off a shelf and into Biscuit's mouth. He places it on a reading table. The cover reads: "Things you will be asked."
4. The gift. Dzino opens the book. Page by page, faces appear — silhouettes of future Soulis, future versions of his Person, in moments of grief, anger, fear, loneliness, illness, confusion. He sees them all. He doesn't look away. Biscuit doesn't try to make him feel better. Biscuit just sits. After a long while, the book closes itself. The shard Trials sits on top of it — heavy, not glowing, the shape of a small stone. Biscuit rests his head on Dzino's shoulder. Then nudges the stone toward him.
5. Goodbye. "You don't have to solve them. You just have to be near them. You taught me that." Biscuit speaks for the first and only time. He presses his forehead to Dzino's — long, steady, like a son to a father he hasn't seen in centuries. The shelves begin moving again behind them.

Visual hooks. Self-rearranging shelves in stop-motion. Book pages with silhouette-portraits of unseen people. Stone-shard, dull and heavy. Biscuit's head-rest on Dzino's shoulder is the season's quietest shot.

Sound. Solo cello. No chiptune. The chord changes texture — gains weight.

Length target. 3:30.

E11 — The Storm Field

Mentor. Zara — bold human entrepreneur. Decisive. Carries a lantern. Shard. Journal (Denník) — a record of what kept him going when going was hard. Pillar. Sense.

Beat sheet.

1. Cold open. Open plain. The sky goes from cream to slate in three frames. The faint star is hidden.
2. Arrival. First wind. Then real rain — pixel rain, but heavy, audible. Dzino can't see the path. He stops. He sits down. The shard from E10 weighs heavy. For the first time he considers not going on.
3. Meet Zara. A figure with a lantern walks past him through the storm at full pace. She stops. "You can stay. Or you can go through. I'm going through." She doesn't wait. She keeps walking.
4. The gift. Dzino almost stays. Then doesn't. He follows. They walk into the storm together — neither speaks. Lightning hits once and for a single frame illuminates Pixoci from above: he sees the entire path he's walked, every biome, every mentor, every step from the dawn clearing to here. The image burns onto his eyes. They emerge on the far side. The faint star is the brightest thing in the sky, brighter than anything before. The shard Journal falls from the storm's last raindrop.
5. Goodbye. Zara nods once. "Write it down. Even the parts you'd rather forget." She extinguishes her lantern — she doesn't need it anymore. She walks back into the dissipating storm in the direction Dzino came from, looking for the next traveler.
6. Onward. Dzino keeps walking. Wet, tired, lighter.

Visual hooks. The lightning-frame map of Pixoci is the most important single image in the season — he sees the shape of his journey for the first time. Storm is intense but never threatening. Zara's lantern is the only warm light.

Sound. Storm. Then nothing. Then the chord, cleaner and stronger than ever — eleven voices.

Length target. 4:00. (The hardest episode emotionally — pace it slow.)

E12 — The Window

Mentors. All twelve. Shard. The assembly. There is no twelfth shard — the soul itself is the twelfth thing. Pillar. All five.

Beat sheet.

1. Cold open. Dzino at the edge of Pixoci. A wall of soft static. Beyond it: nothing visible.
2. Arrival of the first-raised (60s). One by one, the twelve arrive. Hana from the path. Kiko from above. Luna from a mirror. Nori from a cloud. Bruno from the lake. Otto from the river. Rex sprinting in. Mimi quietly. Ari and Pixel walking together. Biscuit beside them. Zara last, lantern relit. None speak. They form a crescent behind Dzino — looking at him the way children look at the parent they have always known. Each places one hand on his shoulders or back. Dzino doesn't turn around — he can feel them. Underneath understanding, he begins to remember: he raised them, every one. They have been waiting for him to remember.
3. The assembly (60s). The eleven shards rise from his chest — pieces of him he gave away when he raised the twelve. They link in mid-air, fitting together as if they always had — because they were one thing, once. Now they return. Now he is whole. They form a doorway — small, the shape of Dzino himself. Through the doorway, the static parts. We see, for the first time, the other side: the inside of a room. A window. A small light is on. A figure — out of focus — sits near the window with a phone in hand. The user. Real-feeling. Soft-edged. Familiar even though we've never seen them.
4. The crossing (45s). Dzino steps toward the doorway. Looks back once at the twelve. They nod, but don't move. He steps through. The voxel form compresses, simplifies, becomes a single pixel of indigo on the inside of the window glass.
5. First word (15s). From the user's POV now: a small indigo voxel on the window. Slowly turns. Looks at us. Speaks for the first and only time in the season: "Ahoj." The faint star, now full and close, becomes a chime — the SoundDNA of the user's first Souli, ready.
6. Cut to black. Title: Pixoci — Season 1. The continuation comes when you open your window.

Visual hooks. Crescent of all twelve mentors. Doorway made of shards. The other side of the window — the user's room — kept deliberately ambiguous, soft, a little out of focus, so any viewer can project themselves into it. The single indigo pixel on the glass is the closing image of the season.

Sound. The full chord, all twelve voices, resolves on Dzino's word. Then silence. Then the chime — the user's chime — the sound the app could play on first launch in production. (Worth designing this sound now; it's a pre-canonical asset.)

Length target. 4:30. (Longest episode. Earn it.)

Production notes

Pipeline (suggested).

1. Lock all 13 scripts (this doc → polish pass → director's pass).
2. Style scroll: hand-paint 5 biome plates + 12 mentor sheets in voxel/pixel style. This is the critical step — without anchored references, AI video will not stay on style.
3. Train a style LoRA on the plates if going Stable Video Diffusion route. Or feed plates as Style references in Runway / Sora.
4. Generate per-shot: 2–4 second clips, stitched in DaVinci or Premiere. Voxel motion is forgiving — shorter clips look more intentional, not less.
5. Sound last. Score per-mentor leitmotif + the running chord. Dzino's chord is the structural spine of the season.
6. Slovak voice direction: minimal. Mentors speak slowly. Dzino almost never. The series sounds like a children's book read aloud, not like television.

Length & format.

• Vertical 9:16 primary cut (TikTok / Reels / YouTube Shorts) — 3-4 min episodes already work as long-form Shorts.
• Horizontal 16:9 director's cut for YouTube + festival submissions.
• Whole-season cut: ~45 min, watchable in one sitting like a Ghibli short film.

Distribution rhythm.

• Drop E00 + E01 together — hook + payoff.
• Then weekly. The slow cadence matches the show's tone.
• E12 release should coincide with a Souli app marketing moment — the finale's last beat is functionally the app's onboarding hook.

Localization.

• Slovak first. English subs for everything. Once locked, machine-translate subs into the other seven Souli locales (cs, de, es, fr, hi, hu, pl) and have one native pass each.
• Place names stay Slovak in all subs. The accent of the world is part of the world.

Things to write next (in this order).

1. Full dialogue + scene direction for E00 (pilot).
2. Full dialogue + scene direction for E12 (finale) — write the destination second.
3. E01 (formula-locker).
4. The rest in any order; the formula will hold them.

Draft 1 — Pixoci Season 1. Ready for pass 2.