Jared keeps the lab running. He is the 24-year-old senior undergrad / first-year grad TA who manages the equipment, mentors the undergraduate research projects, and writes up the technical outputs — while Maya handles the money side of the same projects. He is the one holding the magnet, timing the pulse, and reading the meter in every demo.
The technical lead
Senior undergrad / first-year grad student who serves as the physics TA for the research lab: runs the sessions, manages the gear, and is the point person for every undergrad project that comes through the door. He and Maya co-own the project lifecycle — proposal to closeout.
Canonical still (CounterfeitXL, intro scene) — the butler aesthetic.
Old money, new lab
He is not a butler. The v1–v4 design dressed him as one, and the look stayed because it works: an old-money grad student who takes his craft seriously, running a lab full of old equipment and priding himself on precision. The tuxedo is his default outfit in the series.
The duo still — technical lead and financial lead, same lab.
Jared on screen
Every episode of the series, plus the stylized 3D walk preview, its photoreal-head successor, and the ep7 demo where the clip cuts into the episode itself.
Jared & Maya, walking
The two of them built as Blender rigs, walking the lab — the character model test that became the pipeline's 3D branch.
▶ WatchJared, photoreal
The same walk, with Jared's procedural head swapped for a photoreal mesh — generated from an SDXL portrait, reconstructed by Hunyuan3D-2 (776k vertices), and rendered overnight on an RTX 5060 Ti.
▶ WatchThe clip in the episode
The ep7 animation spliced into the episode itself — Jared narrates, then the rendered wave takes over.
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