HueMan XP Animated Series
Dallas, Texas | Series
Animation, Adventure
1 in 5 kids faces a mental health crisis before age 14. HueMan XP is an animated series about being human, about Huey, a small robot who wakes after 60 years in a broken world to ask the one question kids today most need to hear: "Are you okay?" Support this journey. The time is now!
7 supporters | followers
Enter the amount you would like to pledge
$1,731
Goal: $50,000 for production
1 in 5 kids faces a mental health crisis before age 14. HueMan XP is an animated series about being human, about Huey, a small robot who wakes after 60 years in a broken world to ask the one question kids today most need to hear: "Are you okay?" Support this journey. The time is now!
About The Project
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Help us raise $50,000 to launch the pilot episode of HueMan XP and bring Huey to life.
.png)
Disclaimer: AI tools were used to design this poster, using HueMan XP's original Huey artwork. See Seed&Spark's AI policy: https://seedandspark.com/code-of-conduct
This is the beginning.
The full pilot episode costs $100K to bring to life. Our $50K goal funds the production spine: the storyboard and animatic, the world design of Solara, the first frame-by-frame character animation of Huey and the children, the voice cast, and the production tools to make it all.
In other words, $50K is what gets Huey off the page and moving on screen for the very first time. The remaining half (music, original score, sound design, final polish, and launch) follows from there.
We can't do it without you. Every contribution, and every share, gets us closer.
Will you help us bring Huey and Solara to life?
HueMan XP is fiscally sponsored by From The Heart Productions, a 501(c)(3) organization. ALL donations to this campaign are tax-deductible.
Why?
I came to America with a suitcase and a few hundred dollars.
No network, no roadmap. Just one thing my parents built into me:
the ability to walk into a room full of strangers, read it, find connection across difference, and hold my ground without losing my warmth.
That wasn't luck. It was conditioning. And it is the reason I can thrive in any room I walk into.
So when my son was born, I wanted to give him the same.
Then came first grade, and the bullying, and the anxiety.
When I went looking for something to help him through it, I found nothing. No early tools. No proactive system. Just "wait until something breaks, then get help."
But this isn't only about my son. It's about all of our children.
They are growing up in a broken, chaotic world, one that is moving faster than any generation has ever had to navigate, where AI is reshaping what it means to connect, to feel, to be human. If we wait until they are adults to teach them how to understand their emotions, we have already waited too long.
Our children deserve to begin that journey now, in childhood, while the world is still being built inside them. So that they don't just survive the rooms they walk into. They thrive in them.
HueMan XP is an original animated series, the origin story of Huey, set in a world called Solara: a planet fractured by a catastrophe that polarized humanity between those who feel too much and those who feel nothing.
Into this broken world come five kids learning to navigate a place pulling between those two extremes. Together they discover Huey, a small being who awakens after 60 years with no memory, no voice, and something he keeps trying to say: "r… rrrrrr… r?" It builds toward the one question with the power to heal this broken world: "Are you okay?"
Meet Huey - The Question Given Form
Huey isn't a helper bot. He's empathy, given form. His body shifts color with every emotion. He can't speak yet, but he feels everything. And in a world that has forgotten how to feel, that makes him the most awesome (and dangerous) thing alive. He will be in a constant state of metamorphosis.
Season 1 asks: Can feelings and morals be programmed? And it answers: They’re a choice, nurtured by community and support.
Why now.
Post-pandemic children are the most emotionally dysregulated generation ever measured. Parents feel it at the dinner table. Teachers feel it in their classrooms. And yet everything we hand children, every show, every app, every platform keeps giving them entertainment instead of tools.
Instead of waiting for a solution, I have built the IP for it.
Yes, this will be a fun and action-packed series, and Huey levels up into countless cool forms, but not through violence but through emotional connection with hero kids. Every transformation he earns is powered by genuine human feeling that is triggered in this world. That's the most radical thing you can put in front of a child right now for maximum positive effect.
This is a series parents will let their kids watch, and rewatch, because every rewatch builds the child’s emotional vocabulary. Every episode models what it looks like to feel, name, and navigate without ever talking down to a child.
Avatar: The Last Airbender proved that
global kids follow multi-region journeys. Steven Universe proved emotional intelligence sells. Arcane proved animation earns adult attention and serious money. Nobody has combined all three for this generation in this visual language, with this scientific foundation, for this cultural moment. That's not a gap. That's a lane nobody else has found yet.
You’re backing
A team that has spent their careers creating characters generations grew up with: Miles Ludwig from Sesame Workshop, Gary Herman from PBS Kids, and Khurram H. Alavi, director of Bilal: A New Breed of Hero. A Series Bible that is locked, a pilot in development, and a world designed to expand across platforms, merchandise, and schools.
But more than any of that, you're backing the question Huey asks.
"Are you okay?"
It's the question nobody asked my son when he most needed it. But it's a question Huey will make sure reaches all of Solara!
This is the series that asks the question first. Before the crisis. Before the breakdown. Before it's too late
Beyond the Series, What We're Building
The HueMan Series is the front door. But what sits behind it is a full preventive mental health platform for children ages 5 to 12, the first of its kind.
Think of it like a fitness model for the mind. Every day, children show up for a 15-20 minute session delivered by Huey as their personal AI coach, across three modalities:
Warm-Up - Adaptive games that build emotional awareness and cultural intelligence through play.
Workout - Guided reflection where children learn to name, feel, and navigate their inner world.
Cool-Down - Storytelling set in the world of Solara that reinforces what they've just experienced and sends them back into their day grounded.
Just as physical fitness builds a stronger body over time, this daily practice builds a stronger, more resilient mind.
The series creates the community. The platform delivers the daily work. Together, they become something the world has never seen: a preventive mental health system for children that children actually want to show up for.
Back HueMan XP.
The promise - where we are & where we're going
Disclaimer: The characters, designs, artwork, and all campaign text for HueMan XP are our own original work, created and written by our team and artists. As an animated project, we use generative AI in some parts of our production pipeline to work efficiently as a small, early-stage team, always built on and guided by our original artwork and creative direction. For this campaign specifically, we used generative AI for the on-camera presenter avatar in our pitch video. The HueMan XP story, characters, the world of Solara, and creative vision are created and directed by our human team. We want you to have full context as you decide whether to support us. You can read Seed&Spark's AI policy in their Code of Conduct: https://seedandspark.com/code-of-conduct
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Character Animation - Pilot Episode
Costs $15,000
Character Animation Frame-by-frame character animation for Episode 1, bringing HUEY and the children of Solara to life for the first time.
Background Art & World Design
Costs $10,000
Visual development of Solara's territories, environments, and color worlds for the pilot episode.
Voice Acting & Recording
Costs $10,000
The children of HueMan XP are diverse, international, and emotionally complex. Casting and recording the right voices.
Storyboarding & Animatic
Costs $10,000
Scene-by-scene visual blueprint of the pilot. (by Luna Canvas Studio)
Animation Software & Production Tools
Costs $5,000
Software licenses and hardware for the animation pipeline. (Loan candidate, tech contacts)
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
The Team
I went looking for the right people, the ones who have spent their careers asking the same questions I'm asking through their unique lens and mediums.
Sabeen Hasan - Creator & Executive Producer
I'm a mother, a founder, and an immigrant who built a life from scratch in a country I arrived in with a suitcase and a few hundred dollars. HueMan XP came from watching my son struggle in first grade and finding nothing, no story, no tool, no character that could help him name what he felt. I built Huey because he needed him. And because millions of children need him too. This is the most personal and most important work of my life.
Miles Ludwig - Chief Creative Officer
19 years at Sesame Workshop. Miles has spent nearly two decades inside the institution that invented the idea of children's media with purpose. He knows what it takes to reach a child at the deepest level, not through noise, but through truth. I chose Miles because HueMan XP isn't entertainment with a message bolted on. The message is the show. He understood that from day one.
Khurram Alavi - Series Director
Khurram directed Bilal: A New Breed of Hero, one of the most ambitious animated films ever made outside of a major studio, and a story that proved global audiences' hunger for culturally rich, emotionally honest animation. He is represented by IAG. I chose Khurram because he builds worlds that are grounded in human reality and carry moral weight. Huey needs it, and so does all of Solara!
Gary Herman - Co-Founder & CTO
Stanford. PBS Kids. Gary brings the rare combination of technical depth and creative instinct that makes a platform like HueMan XP actually buildable, not just imaginable. I chose Gary because this is not just a series. It's an ecosystem. And he knows how to build things that last.
Diana Projansky - Senior Advisor
Diana has built and shaped some of the most beloved children's media brands in the world, with a career spanning Sesame Workshop, Scholastic, and Amplify. She has sat in the rooms where decisions get made about what children's content reaches scale and what doesn't. I chose Diana because she doesn't just know this industry; she helped define it. Her belief in HueMan XP means everything to me, and her guidance has sharpened every decision we've made.
Reza "Roy" Amini - Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
Roy is the AI and machine learning mind behind how Huey actually works, not just as a character on screen, but as an intelligent, adaptive presence across the HueMan XP platform. His depth in AI and product architecture is what makes the bridge between the animated series and the real-world experience seamless and real. I chose Roy because vision without engineering is just a dream. He's the one who makes it buildable.
Jeremiah Krage - Animation
When I think about what Huey has to be present, emotionally readable, trustworthy to a child, I think about Jeremiah. He played Tinky Winky in the Teletubbies, a show that proved a character doesn't need words to make a child feel completely understood, and he's spent 20+ years in children's media and physical character performance doing exactly that: making a child feel met by a character who never says a word. Huey has to be more than animated. Jeremiah understands that space deeply.
Fahad Shaikh - MENA Production Partner
Fahad is the founder of Shoot At Sight in Dubai, a regional production powerhouse with deep infrastructure across the Gulf spanning film, branded content, and live-action capability. I chose Fahad because HueMan XP is global by design, and Solara was always meant to be built from more than one corner of the world. He makes our MENA production presence real.
Why this team?
Because every single person here has built something that a generation grew up with. They didn't join HueMan XP for what it is today. They joined for what they know it can become.
We're not pitching a concept. We're executing a plan with a locked Series Bible, a pilot ready to produce, and a team that has done this before at the highest level.
Huey is in good hands. And so are your children.
Current Team
Incentives
- The Story
- Wishlist
- Updates
- The Team
- Community
Mission Statement
The Story
Help us raise $50,000 to launch the pilot episode of HueMan XP and bring Huey to life.
Disclaimer: AI tools were used to design this poster, using HueMan XP's original Huey artwork. See Seed&Spark's AI policy: https://seedandspark.com/code-of-conduct
This is the beginning.
The full pilot episode costs $100K to bring to life. Our $50K goal funds the production spine: the storyboard and animatic, the world design of Solara, the first frame-by-frame character animation of Huey and the children, the voice cast, and the production tools to make it all.
In other words, $50K is what gets Huey off the page and moving on screen for the very first time. The remaining half (music, original score, sound design, final polish, and launch) follows from there.
We can't do it without you. Every contribution, and every share, gets us closer.
Will you help us bring Huey and Solara to life?
HueMan XP is fiscally sponsored by From The Heart Productions, a 501(c)(3) organization. ALL donations to this campaign are tax-deductible.
Why?
I came to America with a suitcase and a few hundred dollars.
No network, no roadmap. Just one thing my parents built into me:
the ability to walk into a room full of strangers, read it, find connection across difference, and hold my ground without losing my warmth.
That wasn't luck. It was conditioning. And it is the reason I can thrive in any room I walk into.
So when my son was born, I wanted to give him the same.
Then came first grade, and the bullying, and the anxiety.
When I went looking for something to help him through it, I found nothing. No early tools. No proactive system. Just "wait until something breaks, then get help."
But this isn't only about my son. It's about all of our children.
They are growing up in a broken, chaotic world, one that is moving faster than any generation has ever had to navigate, where AI is reshaping what it means to connect, to feel, to be human. If we wait until they are adults to teach them how to understand their emotions, we have already waited too long.
Our children deserve to begin that journey now, in childhood, while the world is still being built inside them. So that they don't just survive the rooms they walk into. They thrive in them.
HueMan XP is an original animated series, the origin story of Huey, set in a world called Solara: a planet fractured by a catastrophe that polarized humanity between those who feel too much and those who feel nothing.
Into this broken world come five kids learning to navigate a place pulling between those two extremes. Together they discover Huey, a small being who awakens after 60 years with no memory, no voice, and something he keeps trying to say: "r… rrrrrr… r?" It builds toward the one question with the power to heal this broken world: "Are you okay?"
Meet Huey - The Question Given Form
Huey isn't a helper bot. He's empathy, given form. His body shifts color with every emotion. He can't speak yet, but he feels everything. And in a world that has forgotten how to feel, that makes him the most awesome (and dangerous) thing alive. He will be in a constant state of metamorphosis.
Season 1 asks: Can feelings and morals be programmed? And it answers: They’re a choice, nurtured by community and support.
Why now.
Post-pandemic children are the most emotionally dysregulated generation ever measured. Parents feel it at the dinner table. Teachers feel it in their classrooms. And yet everything we hand children, every show, every app, every platform keeps giving them entertainment instead of tools.
Instead of waiting for a solution, I have built the IP for it.
Yes, this will be a fun and action-packed series, and Huey levels up into countless cool forms, but not through violence but through emotional connection with hero kids. Every transformation he earns is powered by genuine human feeling that is triggered in this world. That's the most radical thing you can put in front of a child right now for maximum positive effect.
This is a series parents will let their kids watch, and rewatch, because every rewatch builds the child’s emotional vocabulary. Every episode models what it looks like to feel, name, and navigate without ever talking down to a child.
Avatar: The Last Airbender proved that
global kids follow multi-region journeys. Steven Universe proved emotional intelligence sells. Arcane proved animation earns adult attention and serious money. Nobody has combined all three for this generation in this visual language, with this scientific foundation, for this cultural moment. That's not a gap. That's a lane nobody else has found yet.
You’re backing
A team that has spent their careers creating characters generations grew up with: Miles Ludwig from Sesame Workshop, Gary Herman from PBS Kids, and Khurram H. Alavi, director of Bilal: A New Breed of Hero. A Series Bible that is locked, a pilot in development, and a world designed to expand across platforms, merchandise, and schools.
But more than any of that, you're backing the question Huey asks.
"Are you okay?"
It's the question nobody asked my son when he most needed it. But it's a question Huey will make sure reaches all of Solara!
This is the series that asks the question first. Before the crisis. Before the breakdown. Before it's too late
Beyond the Series, What We're Building
The HueMan Series is the front door. But what sits behind it is a full preventive mental health platform for children ages 5 to 12, the first of its kind.
Think of it like a fitness model for the mind. Every day, children show up for a 15-20 minute session delivered by Huey as their personal AI coach, across three modalities:
Warm-Up - Adaptive games that build emotional awareness and cultural intelligence through play.
Workout - Guided reflection where children learn to name, feel, and navigate their inner world.
Cool-Down - Storytelling set in the world of Solara that reinforces what they've just experienced and sends them back into their day grounded.
Just as physical fitness builds a stronger body over time, this daily practice builds a stronger, more resilient mind.
The series creates the community. The platform delivers the daily work. Together, they become something the world has never seen: a preventive mental health system for children that children actually want to show up for.
Back HueMan XP.
The promise - where we are & where we're going
Disclaimer: The characters, designs, artwork, and all campaign text for HueMan XP are our own original work, created and written by our team and artists. As an animated project, we use generative AI in some parts of our production pipeline to work efficiently as a small, early-stage team, always built on and guided by our original artwork and creative direction. For this campaign specifically, we used generative AI for the on-camera presenter avatar in our pitch video. The HueMan XP story, characters, the world of Solara, and creative vision are created and directed by our human team. We want you to have full context as you decide whether to support us. You can read Seed&Spark's AI policy in their Code of Conduct: https://seedandspark.com/code-of-conduct
Wishlist
Use the WishList to Pledge cash and Loan items - or - Make a pledge by selecting an Incentive directly.
Character Animation - Pilot Episode
Costs $15,000
Character Animation Frame-by-frame character animation for Episode 1, bringing HUEY and the children of Solara to life for the first time.
Background Art & World Design
Costs $10,000
Visual development of Solara's territories, environments, and color worlds for the pilot episode.
Voice Acting & Recording
Costs $10,000
The children of HueMan XP are diverse, international, and emotionally complex. Casting and recording the right voices.
Storyboarding & Animatic
Costs $10,000
Scene-by-scene visual blueprint of the pilot. (by Luna Canvas Studio)
Animation Software & Production Tools
Costs $5,000
Software licenses and hardware for the animation pipeline. (Loan candidate, tech contacts)
Direct link:
Share this update!
About This Team
The Team
I went looking for the right people, the ones who have spent their careers asking the same questions I'm asking through their unique lens and mediums.
Sabeen Hasan - Creator & Executive Producer
I'm a mother, a founder, and an immigrant who built a life from scratch in a country I arrived in with a suitcase and a few hundred dollars. HueMan XP came from watching my son struggle in first grade and finding nothing, no story, no tool, no character that could help him name what he felt. I built Huey because he needed him. And because millions of children need him too. This is the most personal and most important work of my life.
Miles Ludwig - Chief Creative Officer
19 years at Sesame Workshop. Miles has spent nearly two decades inside the institution that invented the idea of children's media with purpose. He knows what it takes to reach a child at the deepest level, not through noise, but through truth. I chose Miles because HueMan XP isn't entertainment with a message bolted on. The message is the show. He understood that from day one.
Khurram Alavi - Series Director
Khurram directed Bilal: A New Breed of Hero, one of the most ambitious animated films ever made outside of a major studio, and a story that proved global audiences' hunger for culturally rich, emotionally honest animation. He is represented by IAG. I chose Khurram because he builds worlds that are grounded in human reality and carry moral weight. Huey needs it, and so does all of Solara!
Gary Herman - Co-Founder & CTO
Stanford. PBS Kids. Gary brings the rare combination of technical depth and creative instinct that makes a platform like HueMan XP actually buildable, not just imaginable. I chose Gary because this is not just a series. It's an ecosystem. And he knows how to build things that last.
Diana Projansky - Senior Advisor
Diana has built and shaped some of the most beloved children's media brands in the world, with a career spanning Sesame Workshop, Scholastic, and Amplify. She has sat in the rooms where decisions get made about what children's content reaches scale and what doesn't. I chose Diana because she doesn't just know this industry; she helped define it. Her belief in HueMan XP means everything to me, and her guidance has sharpened every decision we've made.
Reza "Roy" Amini - Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer
Roy is the AI and machine learning mind behind how Huey actually works, not just as a character on screen, but as an intelligent, adaptive presence across the HueMan XP platform. His depth in AI and product architecture is what makes the bridge between the animated series and the real-world experience seamless and real. I chose Roy because vision without engineering is just a dream. He's the one who makes it buildable.
Jeremiah Krage - Animation
When I think about what Huey has to be present, emotionally readable, trustworthy to a child, I think about Jeremiah. He played Tinky Winky in the Teletubbies, a show that proved a character doesn't need words to make a child feel completely understood, and he's spent 20+ years in children's media and physical character performance doing exactly that: making a child feel met by a character who never says a word. Huey has to be more than animated. Jeremiah understands that space deeply.
Fahad Shaikh - MENA Production Partner
Fahad is the founder of Shoot At Sight in Dubai, a regional production powerhouse with deep infrastructure across the Gulf spanning film, branded content, and live-action capability. I chose Fahad because HueMan XP is global by design, and Solara was always meant to be built from more than one corner of the world. He makes our MENA production presence real.
Why this team?
Because every single person here has built something that a generation grew up with. They didn't join HueMan XP for what it is today. They joined for what they know it can become.
We're not pitching a concept. We're executing a plan with a locked Series Bible, a pilot ready to produce, and a team that has done this before at the highest level.
Huey is in good hands. And so are your children.