Speculative Futures
Near-tomorrow worlds where a single new capability quietly rewrites how people live, work, and decide.
Independent Story-Development Studio
Original stories shaped at the edge of comfort.
Featured — First Series
A near-future speculative anthology where every technology works exactly as designed — and that is the horror. Eight standalone episodes; nothing ever malfunctions.
Explore the SeriesThe Studio
FD Productions develops original narrative work across formats — examining people, systems, places, and the consequences that emerge when everyday decisions are followed to their logical extremes.
We are a development-first studio: we build worlds, characters, and structure before anything else, and we shape each project around the idea at its center rather than a template.
Creative Focus
Not rigid genres — recurring pressures we return to. Any given project may live across several at once.
Near-tomorrow worlds where a single new capability quietly rewrites how people live, work, and decide.
Interior pressure over spectacle — stories that tighten as the ground beneath a character keeps shifting.
Institutions, workplaces, and designed environments — and the people who serve, resist, or disappear inside them.
Rooms, towns, and structures cut off just enough that their own logic can take hold undisturbed.
On the Slate
By Design leads development, alongside our writers' Backwoods book series — book one available now. More projects will be announced as they take shape.
Television Speculative Anthology
The studio's first series — a near-future speculative anthology where every technology works exactly as designed.
Books YA Fiction
Our writers' young adult fiction series — book one available now, book two in pre-production.
AI-Generated Art
Animation Adult Comedy
An adult animated comedy — a grill crew whose trips drop them into a different world every episode.