OG: Approved - Nerdforge
Featuring the Next Generation of Storytellers Rising from the Creator Economy
Welcome to OG: Approved—where rule-breaking creators shape the future. Hand-picked by Open Gardens, they’re not following the playbook—they’re writing the next one.
Name: Nerdforge
Instagram: 768K Followers
Youtube: 3.78 Million Followers
Tik Tok: 198.2K Followers
Who Is Nerdforge?
Nerdforge is two people in a small Norwegian workshop turning craft into cinema. Martina is the on-camera artist with a storyteller’s brain. Hansi is the behind-the-scenes builder who loves tools, wiring, and figuring out how to make impossible shots look easy. Together they take foam, paint, LEDs, 3D prints, and a laser cutter, then build entire worlds that feel like they belong in a film.
They didn’t start with a studio. It was a kitchen table, a couple of lamps, and a camera that overheated. The early projects were scrappy and clever. Then the ideas got bigger. A wizard study built from thrift wood. A dark academia gaming room that looks like a set from a period drama. A full fantasy street tucked inside a bookshelf. A cyberpunk skyline on a single canvas. The format stayed the same. Pick a world. Make it real. Tell the story like a mini episode.
What makes them different is the way they frame process as narrative. Every build has a cold open, a problem to solve, a reveal that lands. They speak to the audience like teammates, not students. Mistakes stay in. Fixes turn into bits. The voiceover is tight and friendly. The edit understands rhythm and payoff. It feels like production design with a showrunner’s discipline.
Their videos look and feel expensive without losing warmth. Lighting is deliberate, color is consistent, and the sound is clean. Long episodes on YouTube play like short documentaries, with chapters that build tension and beauty shots that let the work breathe. The cuts on Instagram and TikTok are punchy and inviting, almost like trailers for the worlds you just visited. It is cinematic, well crafted, and built to live across platforms.
Start with the fantasy street tucked inside a bookshelf, then the dark academia gaming room, then the cyberpunk skyline on a canvas. You will feel the cadence of a show, not a tutorial. It is careful lighting, clean sound, and long YouTube episodes that breathe, paired with short cuts that invite you back. You leave wanting to build something, which is the point.
Three Things We Like About Nerdforge
World building at creator scale: They do not just make props. They make places. A bookshelf becomes a street. A desk becomes a wizard study. The builds are coherent, repeatable, and feel like chapters in the same universe. It is production design you can touch, delivered in bite-size episodes.
Process that plays like a story: Every video has a cold open, a problem to solve, and a reveal that lands. Mistakes stay in. Fixes become bits. The voiceover is friendly and exact. You learn something, but you also feel the arc. It is tutorial content that behaves like a show.
Taste you can learn: Nerdforge shows how texture, color, and light hold a world together. You see why a foam wall reads like stone, why a copper accent matters, why a scene feels warm. Style becomes a recipe, not a secret.