Slight Angle Studios, LLCPrioritizePerspective

One creative ecosystem. Many ways in.

Original stories, screenplays, children's books, sing-along audio, lullabies, learning materials, practical business systems, and YouTube channels in development—all connected by how people perceive, communicate, decide, and change.

The connective tissue is Patternomics: the studio's published, research-grounded framework for seeing the pattern beneath a problem and translating it into something people can feel, understand, and use.

How it all connects

Not separate ventures. Different expressions of the same studio.

A children's story can become a screenplay, sing-along book, lullaby, video, classroom activity, or family tool. The same observational method can also become an SOP, workshop, decision brief, scenario, or business framework. The audience and deliverable change; the underlying work—find the human pattern, shape it clearly, and make it useful—stays connected.

The core idea

Most people repeat patterns they never learned to see.

Slight Angle Studios makes those patterns visible — through stories you feel, tools you can use, and research-grounded frameworks — so people, families, classrooms, and organizations can aim a few degrees better.

See the pattern. Change the aim.
Shift the angle

Same pattern, same destination. The loop keeps its shape.

The engine & its expressions

One engine. Many ways in.

Patternomics is the engine underneath everything. The Bob Universe, the kids' line, the curriculum, and the veteran & recovery programs are all expressions of it.

The flagship

Bob & the Blobs™

Nobody is a Blob. Everybody has Blobs. The patterns behind big feelings, made into friends. The Blobs turn the protective patterns feelings set off into characters kids can understand, name, and work with.

Worry BlobShows up when things feel uncertain.
Anger BlobShows up when something feels unfair.
Avoidance SlugShows up when something feels hard to start.
People-Pleasing BlobShows up when saying no feels risky.
Shame BlobShows up when a mistake feels like identity.
Control BlobShows up when safety feels like steering everything.
The studio

One idea, told a hundred ways.

The Bob Manual™
Fiction
The literary-fiction spine — Grey Dreams (Book One).
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Nobody Got Instructions™
Self-help
Field guides for the parts of adulthood nobody taught you.
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Uniquely Suited™
Memoir / true stories
Survival mode worked. Coming back didn't.
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Bob & the Blobs™
Kids · flagship
The patterns behind big feelings, made into friends — the storyworld + franchise.
Meet the Blobs →
Young Bob™
Kids · picture books
Little Bob. Big feelings. True stories.
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Songs, sing-alongs & lullabies
Kids · family audio
Original character songs, children's audio sing-along books, and gentler bedtime work.
Listen lane →
YouTube channels
Video · in development
Distinct channels for character-led family work, audio movies, and dramatic how-to stories—each connected back to this hub.
See the channel plan →
Day One™
SEL curriculum
Feel it. Name it. Aim it — from day one.
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Patternomics™
Framework / research engine
The framework for the patterns that run us.
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Blobology™
Kid-facing science
The study of the patterns feelings set off.
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Top Down™
B2B / leadership
Watch what gets rewarded.
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Studio services
Writing · systems · deliverables
Screenplays, scripts, SOPs, playbooks, curriculum, business writing, scenarios, and other tightly scoped client work.
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In the works

Stories with somewhere to go.

Books aren't endpoints. Every property is developed as adaptable IP with paths to screen, classroom, products, and licensing — and the studio creates its own visual media in-house: pitch decks, sizzle reels, animated POV shorts, motion graphics, and social video.

Grey Dreams
The Bob Manual
The literary-fiction spine of the universe.
Bob & the Blobs slate
Kids franchise
Finished storybooks + drafts.
Day One
SEL curriculum
Classroom curriculum built from Blobology.
Why this is personal

The work began with lived experience.

Survival, service, recovery, and the long process of learning that the pattern is not the person. Slight Angle exists because these patterns had to be survived before they could be seen — and once you can see them, you can aim a few degrees better.

Robert James Gustavson — founder · creator · writer · framework developer.