IP & Short Drama
A guinea pig with butterfly wings sets off on everyday adventures that are witty and warm.
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01 / Background
“Piggy's Adventures” is an AI micro-drama starring a character who went viral on Kuaishou. The brief called for witty, fun, upbeat short episodes in a series: the yellow-and-white guinea pig's look, accent and catchphrases had to be instantly recognizable, and the story had to keep viewers coming back episode after episode.
The six episodes start with sleeping in and a mother-daughter argument, move through a job at a fried chicken shop, livestreaming, hand-pounded rice cakes and a street stall, and end back at her mom's side. Each episode builds its laughs around one concrete everyday problem, the string of job attempts adds up to experience, and the reunion in the rain brings the whole series' emotion home.
02 / Creative Highlights
Mom pushes the door open and pulls off the covers, but Piggy still hides under her pillow; then she sits up, talks back, grabs her bag and leaves. The opening wake-up call turns step by step into concrete actions, the soft mood of the pink bedroom contrasts with the quarrel, and running away from home becomes the clear turning point of Episode 1.
At the fried chicken shop, Piggy breads the cutlets, fries them and hands them to customers in line, and at closing the owner slips her a red envelope and a bag of fried chicken; at the livestreaming company, the rice cake shop and the Buldak noodle stall, she takes a tumble, sends rice cakes flying into the air and has her takings taken by a polar bear. Each episode's success or failure lands on one concrete action, so viewers get it within a minute.
The yellow-and-white fur, the white stripe on her forehead, the pink wings and the backpack never change across the six episodes. Her eyes are consistently drawn as tiny bean eyes, the same voice is used throughout, and even the trending dance meme is performed in Piggy's own voice, so whatever job she takes and wherever she goes, viewers know it's her.
In Episode 1 she argues with her mom and runs away; in the last episode, her mom finds her in the rain with an umbrella and takes her home. The whole adventure comes back to family, and the six episodes tell one complete story.
03 / Scene Breakdown
The alarm goes off at 7:30, and Piggy curls up under her pink covers, refusing to get up; her mom pushes the door open and pulls off the covers, Piggy sits up and talks back, then finally puts on her pink schoolbag and sets off alone down the road.
The door swings open, and Mom walks to the bed with a stern face and reaches to pull off the covers.
Mom's hand presses on the covers while Piggy pushes her head under the pillow, refusing to come out.
Piggy sits up at the edge of the bed, glares and talks back, her pink wings twitching.
She walks out of the bedroom, snatches her pink schoolbag from the living room sofa and heads out without looking back.
Piggy walks along a country road with her schoolbag, as the title “Piggy Skips School” and “To be continued” pop up.
Piggy walks into the forest market and sees a “Temporary Staff Wanted” sign at the Crispy Fried Chicken shop. She breads the cutlets, fries them and hands them to customers in line, and at closing the owner slips her a red envelope and a bag of fried chicken.
The wooden sign at the shop door reads “Temporary Staff Wanted”; Piggy, schoolbag on her back, stands at the counter and looks the shop over.
Piggy ties on a little apron and rolls a chicken cutlet in flour with both front paws, a row of fried cutlets already lined up on the plate beside her.
A customer in line takes a chicken cutlet bigger than his face, bites into it and beams.
At closing, the owner hands Piggy a red envelope and a bag of fried chicken, and she hugs them with a big smile.
While munching on fried chicken, Piggy is stopped by a talent scout in sunglasses, and she instantly pictures a stage and spotlights. At the livestreaming company, she can't keep up with the group in the rehearsal room, falls again during the livestream, and is finally shown the door.
The talent scout, in a black suit and sunglasses, bends down and holds out a business card to Piggy, who is clutching her fried chicken.
The scene cuts into Piggy's imagination: colorful spotlights, sequins everywhere, and she dances center stage before a packed audience.
A row of guinea pigs in black jackets dance in unison; Piggy, in a pink tutu, trips and falls onto the floor.
The frame becomes a vertical phone screen with comments scrolling, and on the livestream Piggy falls once again.
The talent scout sends Piggy out the door along with her schoolbag, and she sits outside the “Livestreaming Company,” tears streaming down in two little rivers.
A hiring notice is posted on the rice cake shop door. Inside, one person swings the mallet while another turns the dough, surrounded by customers; Piggy takes the mallet and swings, the rice cake goes flying, and she ends up shown the door.
The camera pushes in on the shop door, where the notice reads “Rice cake pounder wanted, 100/day.”
The master brings the wooden mallet down, a shop worker quickly turns the rice cake in between, onlookers pack the shop behind them, and Piggy watches, spellbound, by the table.
It's Piggy's turn: she hugs a mallet several times longer than herself in both front paws and brings it down with all her might.
Lumps of rice cake fly out of the bowl into the air, and the whole shop full of customers freezes, mouths agape.
Piggy tumbles out of the shop door and sits on the ground, hugging her schoolbag and looking hard done by.
On the way home from school, a light bulb lights up over Piggy's head. She sets up a Buldak noodle stall in the forest market, business booms and the takings fill the box; then a polar bear walks over and takes the cash box away.
Piggy follows a group of little animals into the forest market, and a glowing light bulb suddenly pops up over her head.
A wooden sign shows a flaming noodle bowl, bowl after bowl of Buldak noodles is set out on a tree stump, and banknotes fly in from both sides of the frame.
A polar bear leans over the stall, presses a huge paw on the green box marked “Takings” and grins, demanding protection money.
After the polar bear leaves, Piggy sits dazed beside the open, empty cash box, as the title “The Harsh Real World” appears.
In the pouring rain, Piggy walks alone, remembering her string of jobs; in the wind and rain she clings to a school desk and a small blackboard, crying so hard she blows a snot bubble. Her mom finds her with an umbrella, crouches down and hugs her, and the two walk together toward the light after the rain.
Piggy looks up with tears in her eyes, and the scene flashes back to the flour at the fried chicken shop and the phone screen in the livestream room.
Thunder and lightning; in the howling wind, Piggy clings to a school desk, her wings blown backward.
In an extreme close-up, Piggy, covered in mud spots, sobs and blows a snot bubble.
Mom stands in the rain holding a black umbrella, looks down, sees Piggy and smiles.
Mom crouches and pulls the soaking-wet Piggy into her arms, cheek pressed to her head.
Mom holds the umbrella with Piggy at her feet, and their silhouettes walk toward the light breaking through the clouds; the closing card reads “The End.”
04 / Gallery
05 / Results
The series has six episodes, delivered on October 28, 2025, and released from October 30 to November 2 as the collection “Piggy's Adventures” on Kuaishou Trending. According to screenshots of the release page, the six episodes have over 100K likes combined, including 32K for Episode 2 and 29K for Episode 3.
Case Study
Piggy is a character who went viral on Kuaishou all on her own: a yellow-and-white guinea pig with pink wings on her back.
In late September 2025, Kuaishou wanted to ride that buzz with an AI micro-drama about Piggy: about six episodes, one minute each, released one a day.
We started from the outline and handled storyboards, images, video, voiceover and editing all the way through, delivering all six episodes on October 28. From October 30, “Piggy's Adventures” rolled out on Kuaishou Trending, and the six episodes have over 100K likes combined.
01
In the first outline, each episode was a standalone story, and a few leaned toward office life. After reading it, the client raised two points: most people playing with the Piggy meme are middle school and college students, so the story should feel closer to them; and the six episodes needed a thread connecting them rather than each going its own way.
We boiled the main storyline down to one sentence: Piggy doesn't want to go to school, runs off to try a string of jobs, learns some hard lessons, and is finally brought home by her mom. Episode 1 is sleeping in and talking back, the middle four episodes each try a different job, and the finale is a reconciliation with Mom in the rain. Every episode ends with “To be continued,” so viewers know there's another one tomorrow.
Opening of Episode 1: Mom's hand presses on the covers while Piggy pushes her head under the pillow.
After we delivered the first draft of Episode 1, the client felt the first 30 seconds were a bit flat and the conflict came too slowly. We had Mom storm in, push the door open and pull off the covers right away, sped up the edit to match, and cut the episode from 63 seconds to 52.
02
Micro-drama viewers don't have much patience, so every episode needs a laugh you recognize at a glance. For the shop in Episode 2, the client wanted the fried chicken cutlet straight from the trending meme, so we renamed the shop “Crispy Fried Chicken” and swapped all the drumsticks in the film for cutlets.
For Episode 3, the client specifically asked for the group-livestream dance “Shangche Yao” (“hop on board”), and Piggy's line was redone in her own voice: “Fan babies, Piggy's picking you up, hop on!” The Buldak noodles in Episode 5 come from Piggy's own favorite snack.
A row of guinea pigs dance in perfect unison, except Piggy in her pink tutu, who trips and falls onto the floor.
Each job's outcome also lands on a visible action: the chicken cutlets sell and earn a red envelope; a fall while dancing gets her thrown out of the streaming company; one swing of the mallet sends rice cakes flying all over the shop; the cash box fills up, and a polar bear takes it.
One strike from Piggy sends all the rice cakes flying into the air, and the onlooking customers freeze, mouths open.
03
The biggest risk with a trending character is “that's not her.” Before production, we locked down Piggy's look: yellow-and-white fur, a white stripe on her forehead and a pair of pink wings, with front, side and back character sheets; Mom also got a full-body reference, and all six episodes were drawn from these two.
After seeing the first three episodes, the client pointed out that in a few shots Piggy had wide eyes showing the whites, which didn't look like her. We checked her meme stickers and redrew her eyes as tiny, almost entirely black bean eyes, and the later episodes followed suit.
The talent scout in Episode 3 was originally a fox. The client worried it looked too much like a character from a well-known animated film, so we changed it to a human, sent a single image for the client's approval first, then regenerated the relevant shots.
In the finale, Mom crouches down and pulls the soaking-wet Piggy into her arms: the same mom who argued with her in Episode 1.
04
For platforms and brands, this is a way to turn an on-platform trending character into serialized content: one month from brief to all six episodes; at launch, the first three episodes came out on the same day, then one new episode a day, so viewers could follow along.
For people learning AI short dramas, two things from this project can be used directly: pin the whole series' storyline down in one sentence and give each episode just one meme; and for non-human characters, make multi-angle character sheets first, then keep watch on the details most likely to drift, like the eyes, so the character looks the same across all six episodes.
FAQ
Before production, make multi-angle character sheets (Piggy's front, side and back, Mom's full body) and generate every shot from them. When the first three episodes of “Piggy's Adventures” were finalized, Piggy's eyes were changed to bean eyes closer to the original character, the later episodes followed the same standard, and the same voice was used for the voiceover throughout.
“Piggy's Adventures” received its brief in late September, delivered a six-episode outline on October 4, had the first three episodes ready to publish by October 22 and delivered all six on October 28, about a month in total, going live on Kuaishou on October 30.
Yes. This project turned Piggy, who went viral on Kuaishou, into a six-episode series. The plot draws on trending memes like fried chicken cutlets, the group-livestream dance “Shangche Yao” and Buldak noodles; any character likenesses and memes used are confirmed with the client first, as when the fox talent scout in Episode 3 was changed to a human at the client's request.
Approach
We first used the six-episode outline to set the main storyline, “leaving home, trying again and again, returning to Mom,” then made the storyboards, character images, video and voiceover episode by episode. Tools included Kling AI and ElevenLabs; each episode's actions were broken down finely with clear generation requirements, and how each shot was made was tuned together with the story's pacing.
When designing actions, we decided first where each one starts and where it lands. The shot in Episode 4 where Piggy is flung into the air uses first and last frames: set the start and landing images first, and the change in position as she's thrown is clear at a glance; pounding and turning are broken into clean alternating actions, giving the rice cake comedy concrete images to land on.
Keeping a character consistent means both look and voice. When an animal's face is lip-synced directly, the tools struggle to find the mouth, so mouth-opening movements were planned when generating the images and then aligned with the voiceover in the edit; each episode was also checked for eyes, props, subtitles and plot cause and effect, so viewers could follow every step.
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