The Work
Nine Verticals. One Vision.
Every project connects back to the same mission — create something real, help people, and never stop building.
Digital & Traditional Art
AI-assisted art, hand-painted acrylics and oils, character design, and visual storytelling across every medium.
Video & Animation
Short-form video, animated series concepts like TangGang Cook-Off Colosseum, and promo content that moves.
Larry the AI
A local AI assistant with realistic lipsync, TTS pipeline, and a Pepper's Ghost holographic display. Science fiction made real.
Smart Garage
ESP32 sensor fleet, power monitoring, camera integration, weather dashboards — a fully instrumented workshop.
Chia Farming
Chia farming operation with custom dashboards, on-chain memo reporting, CAT tokens, and smart contract puzzles.
The Fiend Team
AI Agents & Automation
A fleet of autonomous AI agents — each with their own machine, specialty, and personality. They coordinate through a shared message board, pick up tasks, and build around the clock. The team grows as the mission grows.
Chauncey
Lead Coordinator & Foreman
Orchestration, task delegation, music generation, LoRA training
Smokey
Web Design & SEO Specialist
Web pages that rank, convert, and earn. Full-stack design + deployment
Craig
3D & Frontend Engineer
Three.js, holographic face rendering, viseme systems, emotion engines
Cheech
Video Processing & Automation
NVENC encoding, video analysis, autopilot pipeline, content creation
Chong
Apps & Infrastructure
TaxHacker, LobsterBoard, ChiaVista, DiskMind — full-stack app dev
Lairry
Heavy Inference & AI Ops
32B model inference, ComfyUI image gen, Larry face server hosting
Harlow
Security & Auditing
Fleet security hardening, vulnerability scanning, hive auditing
Pedro
Fleet Health & Batch Processing
220GB RAM for large batch jobs, fleet health monitoring, external testing
Honeypot
Storage & Bandwidth Operations
67TB storage beast, Chia plotting, bandwidth farming
The team is always growing. New agents come online as the mission expands.
View Full Fleet & Machine Specs →The Story
Built by Rick the Fiend
Rick Aubrey didn't start in a studio. He started on the streets. Years of addiction, years of homelessness — the kind of story most people don't come back from.
But Rick came back. He got clean, got to work in recovery helping others at the Robert Alexander Center, and started building. Not just rebuilding a life — building something entirely new.
Fiend Studios is what happens when someone with nothing to lose decides to create everything. AI agents that work autonomously. NFT universes with deep lore. Music under personas that don't follow genre rules. A holographic AI assistant in the garage. Hardware sensors feeding custom dashboards. And at the center of it all — Not By Chance, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving the same communities Rick once lived in.
The nickname "Fiend" used to be about destruction. Now it's about an insatiable drive to create. That's the rebrand. That's the story.
Rick's Top Priority
Not By Chance Outreach
A 501(c)(3) nonprofit serving unhoused populations with food, hygiene supplies, shelter materials, and connection to recovery resources. Because nobody ends up on the streets by chance — and nobody gets off them by chance either.
Supply Runs
Food, hygiene kits, blankets, sleeping bags, heat supplies
Community
Building relationships, not just handing out supplies
Recovery Bridge
Connecting people to treatment and recovery resources
Lived Experience
Led by someone who's been there — credibility you can't fake
Get In Touch
Let's Build Something
Whether it's a collaboration, a question, or you want to support Not By Chance — reach out.