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Asan Digital Productions

We make illustrated, narrated films about real people — built from their own photographs, their own lives, and told by someone who was actually there.

Not documentaries. Not cartoons. Something closer to how a family tells a story about itself, and how a legend gets made out of a life that really happened.

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In release

The Stef & Erick Chronicles

The true story of Erick — a Metal Rooster born in Fujian in 1981 who crossed an ocean, learned a trade under strict masters, built a restaurant with his own hands, and found a friend across a tennis net in Pennsylvania. Told by Stef, the other Archer, born three years later. Every event is true. The staging is legend.

The Stef and Erick Chronicles

Five episodes史蒂夫与埃里克传奇

Origin. Coming to America. The 2.5 Days. The Storm. One Net. Sixteen minutes end to end, with Episode One also in Mandarin for the family who lived the first half of it.

  • 5 episodes
  • English & 中文
  • 16 minutes
  • Original score
  • Narrated by Stef
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The method

Built from photographs, not imagination.

Every face in a film we make belongs to a real person, and gets checked against their own photograph before it ships. A face that doesn't hold gets thrown out and made again.

The people

We start from the family's own photographs — a Christmas snapshot, a wedding, a picture taken on a phone in a doorway. Those faces are the source of truth for every frame.

The scenes

Each beat becomes a still, composed around the real faces, then brought to life a few seconds at a time. The camera moves, the fire moves, the person stays themselves.

The voice

The narration is read by someone who was there, not a stock voice, and it reads exactly what is printed on the screen, so a child or a grandparent can follow along.

The score

Original music written to the finished cut — scored to the actual timeline, so the swell lands on the moment it was written for.