An example project · Joshua Carlson

Meat Wagon

Explore a book’s story, world, and visual direction together. This is an illustrative project using temporary concept art, not a live manuscript or a demonstration of generated results.

Concept illustration of a detective watching a futuristic medical tower
Temporary story concept

The miracle had a price.

Humanity believed first contact would save us. Disease vanished. Hunger disappeared. Detective Randy Stroud follows impossible murders toward the truth behind the miracle.

Story question: what if the system that saved us was preparing us for something else?

Exploring this example uses no credits and does not add or change anything in your library. Meat Wagon was written without AI; these new visual concepts illustrate the author-studio experience.