Work / Michael Carychao
Creative tools, games, and physical products. Designed and built through code, collaboration, and feedback.
Interfaces for exploring, steering, and making the work your own.
Independent product
Midjourney animation, music, and story worlds in an interactive web experience.
Discovery, episode navigation, playback, and music behavior—designed and built together.
Creator, designer, developer
Explore the work on DreamLounge
Open source
Invented a turn-taking model for human-AI writing: author and model alternate one paragraph at a time, so the writer stays in the lead.
An open-source, cross-platform tool that alternates your prose with generated passages.
Creator, designer, developer
Explore the work on MaltStudio collaboration
Playable questions, developed with Will Wright’s team.
Generative-AI game prototyping with Netflix, plus playable Proxi UX prototypes.
UX Prototype Designer & Unity Developer
With Gallium Studios
Explore the work on Gallium StudiosCreative infrastructure
My studio does product design, app development, and strategy for clients, alongside original work.
ComfyUI, local language models, and GPUs brought together to make the studio’s work.
Independent studio creator and local AI pipeline builder
Explore the work on Viridian ReveriesA swing, a gesture, or two phones: physical actions shape the game.
Current collaboration
Shared play across phones, without an internet connection.
Minigames revised with player feedback through TestFlight.
Game design and development collaborator
With Nash Weber
Explore the work on Two SeaterShipped product
A connected sword and companion fantasy game.
Kickstarter-funded. A run of 100 swords, co-created and produced with Tony Maligno.
Co-creator; electronics, iOS, digital fabrication
With Tony Maligno
Explore the work on Smart Swords
Released on Steam Early Access
A science-fiction world you enter through embodied VR play.
A VR puzzle game released on Steam Early Access, co-created with Jacob Dominicus.
Co-creator; game design and development
With Jacob Dominicus · Sharon Chang
Explore the work on Kitty NigiriAn ongoing animation practice and collaborative studio work.
Ongoing practice
A geological cross section of creative AI.
Hundreds of experiments since 2022, published on Instagram and TikTok.
Artist and animation collaborator
With Karen X. Cheng · The Handpan Man
Explore the work on AI AnimationStudio collaborations
Method Studios. Shepherd Studios. Tippett Studio.
Visual effects developed through directors’ dailies and successive iterations.
VFX collaborator
With Method Studios · Shepherd Studios · Tippett Studio
Explore the work on VFXShinobi collaboration and the Frontier Pool proposal.
Systems work
Additional systems work in the Solana ecosystem.
Shinobi Performance Pool collaboration and a Frontier Pool proposal, simulation, and website.
Shinobi collaborator; Frontier proposal, simulation, and website
Explore the work on Shinobi + Frontier