One Location, Infinite Story
The apartment complex is the whole world. What feels like a limitation becomes the series' greatest strength — intimacy by design.
Art & Animation · In Production
The Quads
four friends. one building. the kind of love that just shows up.
What is The Quads?
The Quads is a 23-episode hand-drawn animated comedy series set entirely inside one apartment complex. Four friends navigating adulthood, chosen family, and the kind of love that doesn't announce itself — it just keeps showing up.
Every episode is hand-drawn in Procreate by Ryan Gray. The animation style is expressive and character-driven, built for a story where the real action is in the room, the look across the table, the knock on the door at 2am.
Real stakes, real laughs. Coming to YouTube and Vimeo.
23
Episodes · Complete scripts
Hand-drawn
Every frame in Procreate
YouTube
Free · Vimeo archive
Why It Works
Hand-Drawn Warmth
Every frame drawn by Ryan Gray in Procreate. No shortcuts. The visual style reflects the show's emotional texture: imperfect, present, alive.
Chosen Family as Infrastructure
Not a theme to explore — the actual mechanism of the show. These four people are each other's real structure.
Comedy That Earns It
The laughs land because the emotional stakes are real. The Quads doesn't choose between funny and meaningful.
Chicago-Rooted
Set in a city that operates on mutual care, unspoken loyalty, and very specific weather opinions.
Free to Watch
Built for YouTube. Episodic, accessible, and designed to grow a real audience from the ground up.
Production Status
Scripts are complete for all 23 episodes. Animation is in active production in Procreate. The Quads is the studio's primary production commitment — first to release, first to build an audience.
Following the completion of The Quads, production shifts to Death's Jilted Lovers.