Today's Paper·Vol. I, No. 1
Boston, New York·Independent creative studio

Make Believe House

We build worlds people want to enter.

TrendingEvery real thing was imaginary once.The world comes before the logo.First you make it. Then people believe it.Make something worth believing in.A studio for imagined things becoming real.Different worlds. Same house.
Objects & characters · LIFE-001

Nine Creatures Agree to Plan Your Day

Drawn, modeled, rigged and animated in code: the cast of a companion app that is never perfectly still.

By Make Believe House · Boston, New York · 2026 · 14 photographs

LIFE-001 is a companion app that plans your day, and the characters are the product. Nine creatures, each one starting as a drawing, turned into a 3D model through an image-to-model pipeline, given a skeleton, and animated entirely in code: breath, weight shifts, glances, a dance when you finish the day. Nothing is keyframed. They are never perfectly still.

The cast. Nine guides, one for each part of a life.Make Believe House
The Blue Ogre.Make Believe House
The Cyclops.Make Believe House
Ember Bear.Make Believe House
Nimbus, the Yeti: the first guide you meet.Make Believe House
Turnaround. Each character is a full model, readable from every side.Make Believe House
How a character is made: sketch, untextured model, textured model, skeleton.Make Believe House
Rest, wave, dance, sleep. Every movement is procedural, layered over breath.Make Believe House
The Red Gnome, the Wizard Gnome and the Dwarf.Make Believe House
The Boar Ogre and the Slime.Make Believe House
In the app: Ember Bear, day 98.Make Believe House
The Blue Ogre, arms up for a finished journal.Make Believe House
The whole cast at home, above the day's plan.Make Believe House
Closing the day.Make Believe House
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