About Skymachine

Skymachine is an independent studio dedicated to experimental storytelling across manga, film, software, and physical art.

Founded by filmmaker and artist Mitch Greer, the studio operates as a small creative laboratory exploring the relationship between nature, technology, and cultural memory. Its projects combine traditional craft—drawing, painting, animation, and sculpture—with contemporary digital tools, allowing stories and visual systems to develop across multiple media.

Rather than treating media forms as separate disciplines, Skymachine approaches them as parts of a unified ecosystem. A story may begin as a drawing, evolve into a manga or animation, and later expand into interactive software or physical objects. This fluid structure allows each project to develop according to its own needs while remaining connected to the larger body of work.

The studio’s aesthetic draws from several traditions: independent manga, experimental animation, underground film culture, and the tactile qualities of analog media. Film grain, VHS textures, hand-drawn imagery, and printed materials often coexist with modern digital production methods. These elements are not used nostalgically, but as artifacts within an ongoing cultural continuum.

Much of Skymachine’s work imagines futures that are neither purely technological nor purely nostalgic. Instead, its stories and worlds explore how cultures evolve by preserving, recycling, and transforming fragments of the past. Natural environments, ecological awareness, and quiet moments of reflection often play an important role alongside speculative technology and imaginative settings.

Projects produced under the Skymachine label include manga series, animated shorts, experimental films, interactive software, printed books, sculpture, and physical editions such as VHS releases and art objects. Together they form a growing body of work that values independence, craftsmanship, and long-term worldbuilding.

Skymachine operates as a small studio by design, allowing its projects to develop slowly and deliberately outside the pressures of large-scale media production. The goal is not volume, but the cultivation of a distinctive body of work that can continue evolving over time.

Through this approach, Skymachine functions as both a studio and an archive—an ongoing exploration of how visual storytelling can exist across mediums while remaining rooted in the human practices of drawing, making, and imagining new worlds.