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Fun
El Paso, Texas / Los Angeles, California · 2026
IP
Consistency
is the craft.
ShotOverhead drop
PaletteConcrete · Gunmetal · Red
CharacterBeto Salinas
ProjectLegs
Scroll to drive the camera
Nutrition Facts
Serving size 1 world
- CharacterBeto Salinas
- LocationBorderland Jam Wall
- World BuildingAmigo vs. Thunder
- Story DesignBrain 2.0
*Percent Consistency not established when the reference sheet isn't locked before rendering.
Character
Beto Salinas,
an enhanced human
from the year 2030.
After losing an eye and an arm in a freak accident, Beto was one of the first recipients of robotic prosthetics. Rather than hiding his human imperfections, he's embraced the look, pairing it perfectly with his Barrio Aesthetic.
Beto Salinas — from Legs
In the world of Legs, people who lose limbs replace them, and the replacements are better than what they replaced. The Circuit supplies the parts, the repair, and the belonging that comes with them — which is why loyalty here runs through hardware instead of ideology. Beto's right hand and forearm are exposed chrome because he never wanted them hidden.
LOCATION
El Paso: Borderland Jam Wall
A location sheet separates what must never change from what is supposed to. The wall, its geography and its paint are locked. Light, weather and time of day are free to move.
Legs — the same street, every shot. Warm streetlight is the variable; the road and the architecture are not.
Natalia & Bertha — the same graffiti wall, held across a whole sequence at 2.35:1.
Two performers, locked to the same standard as the wall they skate. Once the location holds and the characters hold, they can be put in front of each other and the scene stays legible — the same paint behind them in every cut, the same faces, the same clothes, while the light and the hour move freely.
WORLD BUILDING
World Building
It starts with a nemesis. Thunder is what tells you the rules of this world — because neither of these men can die, and neither of them ages. They are time travelers only in the sense that they have stood in more history than anyone else alive, and watched it go past.
They shipped together in 1776 on the Manila-galleon run. The octopus took one of them off the deck and carried him down; it only touched the other. One was remade in Atlantis. One stayed on the surface and simply stopped getting older. Two hundred and fifty years later the nemesis comes back not to take a city, but to ask the only other man who was there a single question — why you and not me?
Haruto Amano — the man under the costume
Thunder, human form — 1776, before Atlantis. Both men shipped on the same deck.
The octopus — the event both lives turn on
Pilot, biker, wrestler, original — four costumes, still one man
Thunder in the Sun Bowl, and the Sun Bowl as a world stage — the same El Paso, two hundred and fifty years on
PRODUCTION ENGINE
Brain 2.0
The workflow. Five stages, each one a handoff with something finished attached to it.
Handoff
A clearly articulated idea is transmitted to the Director.
Story-Locked Idea
The Director delivers the treatment and the shotlist.
Reference Creation
Anchor images for character, location, and world dynamics.
Animation
Elements come to life.
Assembly and Delivery
Elements are assembled and delivered. Fun ensues.
Rigor makes Fun possible.
See it finished
The work, cut and delivered.
Character sheets and shot specs are how it stays consistent. These are the pieces that came out the other end.
Watch the demo videos →funistheproduct.com/demo-videos
