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Film 001 · Released November 2026

Rust Titan

An experimental anime cinematic.

In a desert of buried machines, a young explorer named Sola brushes the sand from a strange rusted dome. Under her hand, something sparks. Something ancient opens its eye, and a giant rises from the dunes.

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Written & directed: Rishi Patlolla
Format: Vertical short film · 1080×1920 · 24 fps
Style: Anime-inspired science fiction
Design & keyframes: Nano Banana Pro, from a locked character and world bible
Motion: Runway multi-shot and Kling 4 via the Runway API
Orchestration: Claude and GitHub Actions
Edit & finishing: FFmpeg assembly, DaVinci Resolve finishing
Music & sound: Selected, edited and mixed by hand

Selected frames

Five beats, one discovery

The Titan stands over Sola — **05 · The rise**The payoff is held long enough to land.

Sola in the machine graveyard — **01 · The world**A graveyard of half-buried machines.

Sola brushing sand from the dome — **02 · The find**Curiosity before scale.

Sparks under her palm — **03 · Contact**The insert shot sells the moment.

The eye opens — **04 · The eye**The one cyan light that became the studio mark.

Design first

Locked before a single frame moves

Sola, the Titan and the desert were designed and frozen as references first. Every keyframe is generated against them, so the characters stay on-model shot to shot.

Sola character design — **Sola**Goggles, scarf, satchel. The details checked in every shot.

Rust Titan design — **The Titan**Rust-red plates, one cyan eye.

Desert world design — **The world**A desert of buried machines at golden hour.

Approved keyframes

Raw vs final

What the machine gave us,
and what we kept.

Raw · multi-shot generation

15 seconds straight out of Runway's multi-shot recipe. No sound, no grade, no edit.

Raw · the rise (Kling 4)

A separate shot, anchored to a final frame generated from the locked Titan design.

Final cut

Edited, re-timed, scored, sound-designed and finished in DaVinci Resolve.

Cut the opening walkSola walked straight through a metal bolt. It failed our physical-plausibility check, so the film now opens on the world instead.
Removed a mid-shot model switchAn earlier version handed off between two models halfway through the rise, and you could see it. New rule: models only change at a cut.
Anchored the rise with an end frameWithout one, the Titan drifted into a different robot by the end of the shot. With a locked final frame, it stays itself.
Swapped an off-model shotOne generation lost Sola's goggles. It was replaced, not hidden.
Built the ending by handThe Titan fades while its eye keeps glowing, then the studio card. Composited deterministically, not generated.
Music and sound, by a humanPicture is locked first; then music, desert ambience and metal are cut to the beats and mixed to streaming loudness.

The process

How Rust Titan was made

Idea & shot list

A five-beat story: world, find, contact, eye, rise. Each shot gets framing, angle and movement.

Rishi · Claude

Design bible

Sola, the Titan and the desert designed, compared across models, then locked.

Nano Banana Pro

Model shoot-out

The same shots run through five video models. Kling 4 held the designs best.

Runway API · GitHub Actions

Edit & finish

Best takes cut together, ending composited, music and sound added, export checked.

FFmpeg · DaVinci Resolve

See the model shoot-out → The full pipeline