I am D.H. Vinci. I created this website to showcase my project, art, and passion for the original series Kitsunix the animated series. From an early age, I started off as a writer. From middle school to High school, my first piece of work was Poetry. By the time I finished high school at Providence St Mel in Chicago, thanks to Link Unlimited which helped in all areas of my academic and personal growth, I had completed a book of poems total 64 and for some enjoyable reason, most of my poems rhymed.

Knox College was where I really started to shine as despite being an introverted shy young man, I was able to make friends, hone my love for creative writing as a minor (with English as my Major), traveled abroad to Dublin Ireland for 10 weeks, and took a 4-day mini vacation to Rome, Italy. I’ll tell the story of how I got lost in Rome another day and have it linked from this page so stay tuned. It was also in College that I developed an original short story called, How the Fox Got Its Color (Really important for later).

It was the last rhyming piece I made as a farewell to my years of writing poetry. After college, I became a study-abroad ambassador and tried to think of what I wanted to do going forward. Like most people, I grew up watching Disney, and fell in love with the movie Aladdin, and more specifically the Genie (Rest in Peace Robert Williams). So I made the personal decision to go to Graduate School so I could become a Screenwriter. I felt it was my dream to make stories that would come to life on the big screen.

Since I didn’t know anything about the film and entertainment industry, I took a 10-week screenwriting course with Paul Peditto at the Chicago Filmmaker’s program. There, I transformed my original short story, How the Fox Got Its Color, into my very first original Screenplay. I was so happy and so proud because after applying to DePaul University in downtown Chicago, using this as part of my application process, I was accepted.

I spent 2 years learning the ins and outs of crafting a screenplay, how to master storytelling, how to give care to characters, how screenwriters work in the industry, and so much more. With special help from Christopher Parish, who helped me on an independent project of an original screenplay, and Scott Myers, who gave me extra attention to really delve into my work, I’d grown a nice portfolio of work to show off and I couldn’t be happier with this program.

In my final year of DePaul University, I enrolled in another 10-week program where I and my small class would live in Los Angeles California. We’d have apartments, courses, classes, pitch sessions, unpaid internships, and tours around Hollywood’s famous landmarks and studios like Warner Bros, Universal Studios, Disney Park, etc… I was fortunate to meet two very important people while I was there. My cousin Paris Dean who had her own business and allowed me to work with her all across Los Angeles, and an anonymous worker and alumni of DePaul who works at and gave me a tour of Dreamworks Studios.

It was towards the end of the program, however, that I had a huge realization, I wasn’t going to cut it in Los Angeles without a plan, and I hadn’t crafted one. Everything was expensive in L.A. (3X more than Chicago), public transportation wasn’t great, I had no car, I’d had to get a day job to pay bills, a night job networking, and a weekend job trying to focus on my craft to pitch to companies just so I could get my foot in the door. If I was lucky, I’d land a paying gig but the number of unpaid internship work was already competitive.

Then I learned two things that would change my mind about working in the industry, or at least L.A to start. First, writers usually have 10 projects they’re working on to pitch to any company they could… I only had 1-3 I wanted to focus on. Second, even if I pitch my work to a company if they accept it, they have all the control. I would need to fight tooth and nail to make sure I got credit or paid for my work, and if they eventually never do anything with it, it would be put on the shelves indefinitely. By law, I would not be able to do anything with the content I made that they now own unless I get thousands of dollars to pay them for the rights back.

While this is standard practice in the industry, it hurt knowing that I wouldn’t have control of the work I brought to life and the only thing I’d be asked was ‘Okay, what else do you have? What’s next.’ It especially hit hard when an established showrunner Olan Rogers, creator of the show Final Space, had his animated series canceled after 3 seasons due to the company’s orders. After months of research, he was allowed to conclude his series not by animation, but by doing a very large comic. Bless his lawyer for finding this out. And nowadays, so many animated shows have been discontinued and will never see the light of day.

So, I decided to go my own route. I wanted to travel again, not be tied to one city for most of my life working so hard, I wanted to eliminate my student loans as I don’t regret going to Grad School due to the people I’ve met and experiences I’ve had, and I wanted to make my own animated web series, even if it takes me the rest of my life because I know it will make me happy. So, I created this website, I resurfaced all my college content for story crafting, I self-taught myself 3D animation, and thanks to software programs like Final Draft 12, Blender 3D, and Reallusion’s Character Creator 4 and Iclone8 software, I am on my way to creating an animated web series that no one can take away from me.

I’m currently working full-time remotely and working on a business that’ll allow me to travel, pay back my loans, and self-fund my projects and I can’t wait to share with everyone what I have in store.