How One Story Became a Film, a Webtoon, a Global E-book—and a Novel
What a one-person AI studio taught me about expanding an IP instead of copying it I did not set out to make a film or write a novel. The original plan was much smaller: spend thirty days finding out what a non-developer could actually build with a $20 monthly AI subscription, then turn the experience into a book. The project refused to stay inside that book. One of its lessons became a webtoon. An incident in the webtoon became a motion comic, then a three-minute, fifty-three-second short film. The same characters eventually moved into an eighteen-chapter workplace thriller. From the outside, it may look as if I made one thing and reused it several times. The opposite was true. The moments that failed most often were the ones where I trusted an existing asset to work in a new medium without rebuilding it. Episode 6 opens with a question rather than an explanation: if the accident never happened, what exactly did Dohyun prevent? Reusing the source did not preserve the feeling A webtoon ...
