Junkyard King | Chapter 2 | The New Guy

Henry Daubrez

Artie gets an unexpected new ally, learns that brute force isn't always the answer, and discovers that training with X-Cal can attract some very, very big problems. At fifteen minutes, Chapter 2 is the longest Junkyard King installment yet, and the first credited as a production of ODD KID, the studio banner Henry Daubrez now releases the series under. The progression across the three chapters is the story of AI filmmaking in 2026 in miniature. Chapter 0 took four weeks and about $1,000 in Seedance credits to make a pilot exist. Chapter 1 grew out of a tool experiment into a nine-minute episode. Chapter 2 is simply a new episode of a show — a widening cast, a recurring setting, an antagonist scale-up, and a creator who is no longer asking whether serialized AI animation is possible, but how many stories the world can hold.