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Grandstaff Manors

AI-assisted animated story video

  • Nonprofit
  • Marketing Strategy
  • AI workflows

The brand

Grandstaff Manors is the housing program of Form Communities: four homes in the Dellview neighborhood of San Antonio, rented by the room to San Antonio Clubhouse members in recovery.

Why

Form Communities wanted to raise awareness and funds for the homes. The program is named after Bruce and Randy Grandstaff, two longtime Clubhouse members, and their story shows why it matters better than any fact sheet.

How

  1. I planned the awareness campaign to raise funds, with the brothers’ story at its center.
  2. I wrote the storyboard scene by scene, from their years at the Clubhouse to the homes named in their memory.
  3. I planned and scripted it with Claude Code, ChatGPT and Gemini, then built the scenes with AI.
  4. I combined nine AI tools, each with one job. One made the collage images. Others brought them to life with motion. Others read the story aloud, and one wrote the music. The full list is under Tools used.

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