Clay · Ep 01
The Visit
Your worst day. His visit.
A kitchen floor at 2 AM, a parked car before work. Jesus shows up, listens, and tells a Bible story about someone who felt the same way.
Stop-motion clay lookStory series
Animation studio · Apps · Web
We build for the smallest screen.
Gridline Labs makes animated series, iPhone apps and websites. Everything starts on a phone, so that's where we design it.
What we make
Shows, apps and websites, under one roof.
The same small team writes the stories, ships the apps and builds the sites. Each one makes the others better.
Animated series
Short story series for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, with characters you'd come back for.
See the shows
iPhone apps
Our own products, designed, built and grown in-house. Bible Friend is the first.
See the apps
Websites and tools
Fast, good-looking sites, and the web software that runs a studio behind them.
See the web workNow showing
Every episode starts on someone's hardest moment.
And ends somewhere warmer. About a minute long, made for the feed, with recurring characters you'd come back for.
Clay · Ep 01
3D · Ep 01
Sparrow
A small bird at the window, at the hour you can't sleep.
Scruffy, a scruffy little sparrow, keeps landing on the windowsill of a woman alone in her kitchen at night, and he stays until she's okay.
Feature-style 3DStory series
Untitled series
A new character is on the drawing board.
A new look and a new world, in the works now. First frames land here soon.
Coming soon
Apps
We ship our own apps.
Bible Friend
A Catholic prayer app for iPhone.
Daily Scripture, the Rosary and the Examen as guided audio, reading plans, and a faith companion you can talk to any time. Our animated series grew out of telling its story.
- Bible chat, any time of day
- 100+ guided audio sessions
- 80 reading plans and reflections
- Rosary, Mass, saints and devotions
Websites
You're looking at one.
We design and build websites and web apps: marketing sites with some theatre to them, product pages, and the internal tools that keep a studio running, like our publishing tool below.
Design3D and motionWeb appsInternal tools
How we make the shows
One studio, seven passes, every episode.
Each pass is its own written craft guide that gets sharper after every note. The third episode of a show takes fewer rounds than the first.
01
Script
One hard moment, one turn, lines short enough for a 2-second shot.
02
Voice
The whole scene recorded as one conversation, so it sounds like one.
03
Keyframes
Every shot locked as a still before anything moves.
04
Animate
Lip sync and motion, shot by shot, against the locked frames.
05
Edit
Cut, captions, mix and a hook that works with the sound off.
06
Publish
Posted to our channels with the AI label on, every time.
07
Learn
Results come back and rewrite the guides for the next episode.
Learn feeds back into Script. The loop never closes.
A studio that learns
Guess first. Then check.
Views alone don't tell you much. Before anything goes out, we write down what we expect from it, so the results can actually prove us wrong.
- Every post has a prediction.It's written before the post goes live, along with the one thing we're testing.
- Results at 48 hours and 7 days.Each episode is tagged by hook, topic and format, so we can compare like with like.
- Lessons have to repeat.A pattern becomes a rule only when it holds across episodes, not because one video got lucky.
- Rules live in the craft guides.The next script starts with what the last ten taught us.
Our software
Gridline Studio
Our in-house publishing tool. It schedules and posts the videos we make to the channels we own, and it isn't offered to anyone outside Gridline Labs.
YouTubeShorts uploads
TikTokVideo posts
InstagramReels
FacebookPage videos
Gridline Studio only connects accounts owned by Gridline Labs. Uploads to YouTube use the YouTube API Services. Read how we handle that data in our Privacy Policy.
Contact
Have a story, an app or a site in mind?
For projects, collaborations or press, write to us. We read everything.
hello@gridlinelabs.studio