WELCOME TO DEADBALL ACADEMY™
An original AI-sports comedy series. Old-school baseball. New-school chaos. Deadball Academy™ is a satirical baseball universe created and written by Andrew “Oyl” Miller. Built with AI and straddling the chalk lines at the intersection of unfiltered nostalgia and rage. It’s where washed up baseball coaches scream at iPads, bunt for power, and sell energy drinks they brewed in the dugout called STEROIDS™. Think ESPN meets Adult Swim, if both were concussed by a runaway fastball in 1987.
Every episode was written, directed and edited by me, using emerging AI tools like Google’s Veo 3 (for cinematic video generation), Suno (for original soundtracks) and iMovie. Until last week, this world and characters have only existed in Moleskin notebooks, so it has been thrilling to give their voice new form and shape. I’m excited to push the possibilities. Deadball Academy™. Written & created by Andrew “Oyl” Miller © 2025.
Follow the full series on social. New episodes dropping frequently on my channels: 🎬 TikTok | 🎥 YouTube
If you have a question for the Deadball Academy™ coaches, you can email me at oylmiller@gmail.com.
Deadball Academy™ | Episode 1 — “Welcome to Hell Week”
Meet the instructors of Deadball Academy™, who are out to whip a new generation of soft prospects into shape. It’s Hell Week, where the drills are illegal and the insults are generational. Deadball Academy™. Written & created by Andrew “Oyl” Miller © 2025.
Deadball Academy™ | Episode 2 — “Coaches Roast Shohei Ohtani”
Ohtani’s generational brilliance shatters the Deadball coaches’ fragile sense of baseball purity. They respond the only way they know how: blind rage and deeply personal slander. Deadball Academy™. Written & created by Andrew “Oyl” Miller © 2025.
Deadball Academy™ | Episode 3 — “Forced to Apologize”
Legally forced to apologize to Shohei Ohtani, the Deadball coaches attempt to make nice. Needless to say, it doesn’t go well. Deadball Academy™. Written & created by Andrew “Oyl” Miller © 2025.
Deadball Academy™ | Episode 4 — “Baseball Has Gone Soft”
From torpedo bats to launch angle charts, the Deadball coaches unload on everything ruining the game. Analytics may be the future, but these guys still miss the smell of dip and bench-clearing brawls. Deadball Academy™. Written & created by Andrew “Oyl” Miller © 2025.
AI FILM EXPERIMENTS
I’m using AI as a new kind of camera. One that hallucinates, reinterprets and attempts to capture my vision. It’s imperfect, but it’s constantly improving. I want to follow the developments and see how they can be used to further human creativity and different voices. It’s a messy and chaotic space, and I’m here for it. As a writer with a strong visual background (graphic design and studio art major, started my advertising career as an art director) AI has proven an intuitive intersection of my interests creatively.
Tools like Google’s Veo 3, MidJourney and Runway reward thinking like a screenwriter, director and editor. Prompts are an emerging skillset. And it’s been polarizing so far. I’ve acknowledged that these tools aren’t going away, so I’m trying to learn to use them from the inside. I’m interested in the space where they don’t just generate spectacle, but where they can be used as an expression of creators’ voices. Welcome to the wild, wild west.
These are my experiments to teach myself what these tool and do and for my own education to learn new hybrid skills and ways of working. If you want to talk about AI filmmaking or collaborate, you can email me at oylmiller@gmail.com.