Dr. Ollie AI
An AI-animated golden retriever surgical intern.
Dr. Ollie is a short-form animated series about a golden retriever puppy navigating life as a surgical intern, built end-to-end with generative video tooling. It mines the comedy and wellness side of residency life while staying strictly free of clinical content or patient stories. The project pairs a locked character design and episode pipeline with hard editorial guardrails — treating an AI content series as a real production with its own creative bible.
The problem
Residency is rich creative material, but a physician publishing about it carries real professional risk the moment it touches patients, clinical teaching, or a specific program. The gap was a way to channel that lived experience into something funny and humane without ever crossing those lines.
What I built
A short-form animated series with a fully locked character bible (canon physical design plus defined wardrobe states), a multi-episode content calendar, per-episode scripts, and a reference still set that keeps the character consistent across generations. Every editorial decision is governed by guardrails written into the project spec: program-agnostic, no patient stories, no clinical teaching, AI-disclosure on every post.
How it works
Stills are generated and locked against the reference sheet to hold the character design, then short clips are produced with a generative video model and assembled in standard editing tools. Production is batched to fit around a demanding clinical schedule, and nothing publishes automatically — the human stays in the loop on everything outward-facing.
Where it stands
Concept and creative bible are locked, with episodes and a release calendar specced out; positioned as a sustainable creative outlet and side project rather than a clinical or professional vehicle.