24 Days With My Dragon: Our First Original AI Drama

24 Days With My Dragon is the first original series from Lombrozo & Partners, and our showcase for AI drama. It is a vertical Christmas supernatural romance: 9:16, English, about 90 seconds an episode, one episode for each day of December.

Watch Day 1 on YouTube: youtube.com/shorts/6xSOTcNQ2oE

December 1. At a company Christmas party, Julian raises a toast to the woman he's going to marry, and it isn't Nora, the woman wearing his ring. Her best friend Sarah helped choose her wedding dress and now plans to wear it. Thrown out into the snow, Nora loses the last thing she has, her grandmother's snow globe. It breaks, and Kai walks out of the smoke: a dragon bound to serve whoever broke the glass, for 24 days. His first question is the hook of the season: "Who made you cry?" His second: "Which one first?"

Short drama is a huge market and AI is flooding it. The usual complaints are the same everywhere: identical faces, voices that miss the lips, scenes with no acting in them. We wanted to know what it takes to clear that bar, so we treated one episode as a film school.

Direction first. One idea for the episode, a light plan for every scene, and a rule that warmth belongs to the world that uses Nora while amber belongs to her power.

Long takes. Dialogue moved from fast cuts between faces to single continuous shots with both characters in frame. Scenes longer than one clip are stitched on shared frames, so you can't see the join.

Performance. Nora's breakdown and Sarah's smile from above were added late as full scenes, because the betrayal needed a reaction you can feel.

Rewriting by ear. The first version of the meeting between Nora and Kai had a shard of glass that came from nowhere. We threw it out. Now she sits in the snow holding the broken globe, he asks who broke it, and she answers: "I did." In this world, that sentence is the contract.

One unbroken transformation: the globe shatters, smoke draws a dragon, the camera goes into his eye, the fog clears, and Kai is standing there.

Sound. Library sound design, a single orchestral score and real silence before the dragon arrives.

93 seconds, 22 shots, 5 characters, 16 cuts, 4 days from approved script to final master.

The episode is now a written template: character passports, shot rules, voice pipeline, edit and delivery specs. That means the next episodes start where this one ended, with the same cast and the same quality bar. It's the same system we'd use for your series, brand film or pilot.

Every frame, movement and voice is AI-generated under human direction. No camera and no actors were used.