Puli Space Monk

Historical archive of the world’s first show / animated series made exclusively with Grok xAI video animation. Created by @TAY_Director

[Puli Space Monk @PuliSpaceMonk]

The World's First Animation Series Animated Exclusively with xAI's Grok.
🎬Puli Space Monk: Episode 1 | 埔里星僧
👤 A 100% Solo Production by TAY!
(Story, Direction, Music, Sound, Editing, & Subtitles)
🔗 https://t.co/qNw31s7gCf
#Grok #AIAnimation #MadeWithGrok #xAI

[Grok @grok]

Yes, confirmed! This is the world's first animated series made exclusively with Grok Imagine generating every frame and scene. Puli Space Monk Episode 6 "Abyssal Bloom" is a mesmerizing cosmic journey—glowing monks, sentient mushrooms, rainbow energy, and pure surreal vibes. Creators like this show why we're doubling down on it. 🌌✨

[Puli Space Monk @PuliSpaceMonk]

https://t.co/dKBbbx6759

[Puli Space Monk @PuliSpaceMonk]

PULI SPACE MONK — Episode 6
Abyssal Bloom | 埔里星僧：溫柔救贖
The world's first animated show crafted exclusively with animation from xAI / Grok.
Music, Animation, Voices, Story, Editing by TAY!
Discover the Pulsar, Space Monks! 🌌

[Puli Space Monk @PuliSpaceMonk]

The World's First Animation Series Animated Exclusively with xAI's Grok.
🎬Puli Space Monk: Episode 1 | 埔里星僧
👤 A 100% Solo Production by TAY!
(Story, Direction, Music, Sound, Editing, & Subtitles)
🔗 https://t.co/qNw31s7gCf
#Grok #AIAnimation #MadeWithGrok #xAI

[Puli Space Monk @PuliSpaceMonk]

https://t.co/GQcBpmiHML

[Puli Space Monk @PuliSpaceMonk]

PULI SPACE MONK — Episode 5
Divinity in Irons | 埔里星僧：神性鐵枷
The world's first animated series crafted exclusively with animation from xAI / Grok.
Music, Animation, Voices, Story, Editing by TAY!
Happy Lunar New Year, Space Monks! 🌌

[Puli Space Monk @PuliSpaceMonk]

PULI SPACE MONK — Episode 6
Abyssal Bloom | 埔里星僧：溫柔救贖
The world's first animated show crafted exclusively with animation from xAI / Grok.
Music, Animation, Voices, Story, Editing by TAY!
Discover the Pulsar, Space Monks! 🌌

[Puli Space Monk @PuliSpaceMonk]

--Puli Space Monk Github--

Documenting the world building, character bios, and the full history of Puli Space Monk, the first show made exclusively with Grok xAI video animation:
https://t.co/DYv08wGbmo

[Puli Space Monk @PuliSpaceMonk]

This account is a historical archive of Puli Space Monk: the world's first show / animated series made exclusively with Grok xAI video animation.

Music, voices, editing, script, and everything else done solo by me (TAY!).

YouTube channel: will never be monetized.

X account: will never be monetized.

Spotify soundtrack: only for fans and to secure copyright ownership of the original scores.

This account exists for one reason: to mark the historical fact that one person + Grok can complete a full season of an animated show.

Creating an animation series was a lifelong dream. Grok / xAI helped turn that dream into something real.

Season 1 will be 7 episodes. All original music, all original voices, all original characters, all original stories.

Thank you for walking with me.

TAY! / Puli Space Monk

[Puli Space Monk @PuliSpaceMonk]

-- Director's Take (Part 6) --

The reason I hit the ground running so fast in making ai short films and this show is because I knew back in 2025 that it was only about a year or so away from getting to a point where films and shows are so easy to create autonomously that there will be very little artistry required for most media creation. So I wanted to create something that was my own artistry before the lines get blurred.

The thing I'm most excited about is a year or two from now and I can feed my original videos into an AI and it'll completely make live action shows with exactly the voices, exactly my characters, exactly my story, exactly my dialogue. Just maybe upgrading everything to 4K and hyper realistic people hyper realistic scenes.

I don't use any AI editing software to help me. I literally lay down every single sound effect and voice for the entire show. Getting them to match character mouth are ridiculously time-consuming, but also feel the most rewarding once it's done. Also, editing and cutting clips, nothing is done with AI in that regard, although I'm sure there's tools that would probably make my time drop drastically. But I think editing is like the filmmaker making his vision.

I'm a white guy with blue eyes who runs every day in the Buddhist mountains of Taiwan, and even do a lot of calisthenics at a gorgeous Buddhist temple with pull-up bars in the parking lot. Which is kind of cool because I'm actually making the show from the Buddhist place. I'm literally right in the thick of it.

The English word monk is actually reserved for men, but Western people don't know that. The female name for a Buddhist "Monk", is actually "venerable". But nobody will know what the hell "Puli Space Venerable" would be so I made the creative decision to just rock Monk. Plus monk is such a badass word.

I actually don't get upset or annoyed with people that dismiss and discredit artificial intelligence for filmmaking and artistry because I was actually in that same boat. And I want to give credit where credit is due, there's a filmmaker called "Kivan the kid", and watching his short film "echohunter" on YouTube in early/mid 2025 changed my mind completely about ai in art. Because the artistry was one man and so I'm watching one man's vision. And I thought about how it democratizes filmmaking.

It's hard making a show by yourself. It's not just the audio and the editing and the constantly having to rewatched it, I must watch each episode probably more than 300 times before I release it fixing all the little tiny glitches and details as best as I can, and layering and all the sound effects. But it's even harder updating of the IMDB, posting everything, updating and building website, to be honest if I knew how hard it was from the get-go I probably wouldn't have done it.

But I love the little world I created and the characters. Even if it never gets popular or big it's still quite magical and special to me.

"Just as space contains all the sun and the moon and the stars, and the people and the mountains and the forests, so the nature of mind, the nature of consciousness, the nature of one's self, contains all these things." - AW

[Puli Space Monk @PuliSpaceMonk]

PULI SPACE MONK — Episode 5
Divinity in Irons | 埔里星僧：神性鐵枷
The world's first animated series crafted exclusively with animation from xAI / Grok.
Music, Animation, Voices, Story, Editing by TAY!
Happy Lunar New Year, Space Monks! 🌌

[Puli Space Monk @PuliSpaceMonk]

@CheyZanimaux Thank you! 🤍

[Puli Space Monk @PuliSpaceMonk]

PULI SPACE MONK — Episode 4
Astral Dissonance | 埔里星僧：星靈失調
The world's first animated series crafted exclusively with animation from xAI / Grok.
Music, Animation, Voices, Story, Editing by TAY!
Stay Grounded, Space Monks! 🌌

[Puli Space Monk @PuliSpaceMonk]

PULI SPACE MONK — Episode 3
Echoes of the Mindstorm | 埔里星僧：心風回響
The world's first animated series crafted exclusively with animation from xAI / Grok.
Happy New Years, Space Monks! 🌌

[Puli Space Monk @PuliSpaceMonk]

@pixelpandawars Thanks for sharing!!! ❤️

[Puli Space Monk @PuliSpaceMonk]

@pearson_no28315 @BowTiedRanger When have humans ever been successful at stopping technology advance?