YouTube series
DJC Kids
Original educational songs and stories for young kids, produced start to finish in-house. 261.5 million lifetime views, built one careful upload at a time since 2008.
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Independent studio · Vancouver, BC · Est. 2008
We make stories kids love.
DJC Media is the independent animation and design studio of David Martin. Home of DJC Kids (261.5 million views and counting), hand-drawn picture books, and an AI-assisted 3D pipeline that keeps every character on model.
261.5M+ lifetime views
288K subscribers
7 picture books
Proof, not promises
Small studio. Enormous audience.
261.5M+lifetime views across DJC Kids
288KYouTube subscribers
7illustrated picture books
2008studio founded, still independent
Featured work
Two obsessions: characters and craft.
YouTube series
Case study
Bob and Kale: 2D to AI 3D
Hand-drawn characters rebuilt as AI-assisted 3D, with locked character profiles keeping every clip on model. The hand-drawn work is still the standard every clip is measured against.
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Fresh from the studio
Selected titles.
From the bookshelf
Seven books, hundreds of drawings.
Every DJC picture book is written, illustrated, and published in-house, including the Dave the Beaver adventures from ten years in Japan.
👋 Hi, I'm David
The human behind the studio
Animator, illustrator, professional beginner.
I founded DJC Media in 2008 and I still do every job: writing, drawing, animating, editing, publishing. Ten years in Japan taught me craft and patience. The last few years taught me how to aim AI at a production pipeline without losing the hand-drawn soul.
"The same systems thinking that runs a 261-million-view kids channel also runs enterprise AI. Different audience, same discipline."
David Martin · Also an AI systems leadLet's make something.
Collabs, commissions, publishing, or just talking shop about kids' media and AI animation.