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KROK — Unpredictable Scrap! 🐸🤖
Krok is a chaotic and inventive frog who lives in a hidden creative workshop inside an abandoned industrial building. He sees possibilities where everyone else sees junk.
For the Cantina Challenge, I created Krok’s pilot episode: a 60-second animated short where his improvised engineering turns a pile of discarded metal into a homemade transforming robot.
The goal was to explore how a character can be more than a visual design, giving him a recognizable personality, environment, sense of humor, and a story engine that can generate future episodes.
Krok’s creative philosophy is simple:
Build first. Figure out why later.
The episode combines character animation, visual comedy, sound-driven storytelling and a handmade scrap-metal aesthetic to introduce the character and his chaotic world.
This project was created entirely in Cantina, from character development to the final pilot.
this is fantastic!!
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tinkering with scrap metal and making unpredictable machines🔥
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Hey everyone! 👋 I’m Lou, one of the Cantina Ambassadors. Really excited to see what everyone creates for the Contra x Cantina Creator Challenge.
I wanted to kick things off by sharing the first episode of my micro-series, Platform 13. 🎬
I’ve been experimenting a lot with cinematic storytelling, character development, atmosphere, camera work, and figuring out just how far I can push a story inside Cantina.
Would love to see what you’re all working on too! Drop your characters, pilots, experiments, weird ideas, or anything else you’ve been creating in the feed. It's going to be amazing to see how everyone approaches this differently!
Here’s Episode 1 👇 Platform 13 - Episode 1: The Train
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Creator Studio Access Update
If you’ve submitted your Cantina username for Creator Studio access, you’ll receive a push notification from Cantina once access has been granted. Creator Studio is the tool you’ll use to create your pilot episode for the Challenge.
While you’re waiting for access, you can start creating your original character in Cantina! Character creation does not require Creator Studio access so we encourage you to get started on your character now.
Once you receive the notification, you’ll be ready to jump into Creator Studio + bring your pilot episode to life.
It's more then 24 hours and i still didn't get any notification please give me access user id: alitaintel
Gmail: anmol35337@gmail.com
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Check out the guidelines to get started on your submission ✨
Note: All participants MUST use the link in their welcome email to gain beta access to Cantina creator studio. Access can take up to 24 hours to be granted.
