The
Diary
The warts-and-all record of Brett Clements building Carny Island: the decisions, machine conversations, failures, breakthroughs and exact evidence.
The Journal Showcase
Open the diary JSON ↗The older entries live here: evolving screen grabs, machine conversations, mistakes, measurements and the thing we learned next.
Crookwood. As of August 30, 2026
Ten years of hand-drawn art now heading your way.
Open the entry →Cinema Is Sound
How one human used AI tools and a Mac laptop to build the equivalent of an A$8,000–A$12,300 pilot soundtrack.
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The Hump
The Hump is the second test of the Lab process. I documented the whole process, so you can see how I work: what works and what doesn’t.
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The Villain Puppet
There is a three-foot person inside this suit. Drawing seventeen bones was the easy part; making them feel like one deceitful little person is the challenge.
Open the entry →Riding The Big Dipper
How real astronomy became theatrical machinery inside a 50 × 50 × 25 metre comic world.
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41.000 stars
How the Big Dipper replaced wallpaper over Crookwood.
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Why Use Two AIs?
Machines need a finish line.
Open the entry →The Site Became Part of the World
The Making Of stopped behaving like a brochure.
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