Katechon ArcThe story
Under a swollen blood-red sun, the sorcerer-king Kratos announces his Games of Ascension. His new ziggurat is a mouth that will drink every life in the arena. Torvak, the undefeated champion of the sands, and Zira, the gladiatrix he is forbidden to touch, join a slave girl hiding forbidden sorcery and a senator with nothing left to lose to steal the Heartwood Spear, the one weapon that can pierce the king.
How it was made with Katechon Arc
- Wrote a series bible and a 45-episode guide, then hand-authored 268 shot units validated by a script before upload.
- Painted character and set sheets in one consistent oil-painting look; later costume and form changes became their own characters so every shot could reference them.
- Rendered all 45 episodes in Arc and exported each episode film with captions.
- Renamed the cast after production: only spoken lines, captions and titles changed, and the 25 affected shots were re-rendered rather than the whole series.
Production facts
| Blood Sun: The Fall of Kratos | |
|---|---|
| Project type | Drama project, reference-video mode, 9:16 vertical |
| Structure | 45 episodes of about 70 seconds, 268 shots, 51.6 minutes of episodes |
| Video model | Seedance 2.0 Mini at 720p for almost every shot |
| Look | 1970s–90s pulp paperback oil painting for characters and backgrounds alike |
| Captions | Burned into the episodes; aligned to real speech timings for the film |
| Runtime | 51:52 as one film (1080x1920) |
What we learned
- Mixing painted backgrounds with photoreal people breaks the look; the style brief applies the same painting language to both.
- Planned caption timings can sit a whole line early. Aligning the script to speech-recognition word timings fixed 396 of 400 lines.
Watch
Blood Sun: The Fall of Kratos (51:52) is free to watch on YouTube on the Katechon Studio channel, published 2026-10-08. It was made by the Katechon team with Katechon Arc; editing, music and finishing were done outside Katechon Arc where noted.
More films made with Arc
The Wolf Mother16:9 feature in 8 chapters, 47:14RatKid and the Red Balloon16:9 short film in 5 chapters, 9:44The Fall of Kalak16:9 feature in 9 episodes, 42:11The Emperor's Pleasure Court16:9 extended opening of a vertical series, 6 chapters, 10:22
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