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“One Small Idea” is a short cinematic story about how a simple idea can inspire meaningful change.
18-year-old Milo, a young and determined man, sees his neighborhood slowly becoming polluted. Instead of waiting for someone else to take action, he decides to make a difference and builds a small robot to help clean the streets.
What begins as one small step eventually inspires the entire community to come together.
This film is a reminder that we don't have to change the whole world at once. Sometimes, all it takes is one idea, one step, and the courage to begin.
“Don’t wait for everyone to come and change the world. Take the first step.”
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SPLURGE — Pilot Episode
Meet Splurge: a being of creative chaos, pure heart, and transformative power. In this pilot episode, he shows all his restless and creative chaos.
The episode is in Brazilian Portuguese.
Colors, movement, and lots of imagination to tell a story that only chaos knows how to tell. 🎨✨
Made at the Cantina with zero stress.
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Love this animation style!
I built Luna, a young dream courier Living in the futuristic lumina city. I wanted to create a character with the mysterious story that can grow into a larger micro-series. Luna collects and delivers lost dreams, but during her journey she discovers a forgotten memory connected to her on past. I chose this concept because it combines mystery, emotion and fantasy while leaving room for more stories, beyond the pilot episode.
THE UNDERSTUDY
A dark palace suspense thriller micro-series, created end-to-end in Cantina.
WHAT I BUILT
Odette Lark is the secret body double of Princess Aurelie of Velmire, a tiny, wealthy kingdom carved into a white marble cliff above a stormy sea. For six years she has performed as the princess at every public appearance, perfectly copying her voice, walk, handwriting and smile. The crowds adore her. None of them know her name.
THE CHARACTER
Odette is 23. She grew up in Lowtide, the poor fishing quarter at the bottom of the cliff, and was taken up to the palace at 17 because she looked like the princess. In public she is flawless and composed. In private she is warm, witty, curious and a little reckless. After six years of playing someone else, she is no longer sure where the princess ends and she begins.
Her look is built around that split identity: a platinum bob, a cream high-collared jacket, and mismatched earrings. The pearl on her left ear belongs to the princess she performs. The tiny silver mirror on her right ear is the one thing that belongs to her.
THE PILOT
The princess is to be crowned tomorrow, and after the coronation the kingdom will no longer need an understudy. In one day, Odette is told she will be "free," hears the dying king confess that his daughter died three years ago, and finds a letter written in her own handwriting warning her not to let them crown her. Behind her mirror is a hidden room: six portraits of girls who looked exactly like the princess, every face painted over in black, and a seventh portrait of Odette with the paint still wet. Then a woman with Odette's exact face steps out of the dark, wearing pearls in both ears.
WHERE THE SERIES GOES NEXT
The pilot opens the central mystery: if the princess died three years ago, who has been ruling Velmire, and who is the woman with Odette's face?
Each episode, Odette must survive another public appearance as the princess (a coronation, a treaty, a suitor, an assassination attempt) while secretly unravelling the conspiracy behind the throne. The ongoing threads:
The double: is she a new understudy being prepared to replace Odette, the princess herself, or something worse?
The six erased girls: who they were, what happened to them, and whether any survived.
The letter: Odette has no memory of writing it. Is someone forging her, or has she been made to forget?
Madame Veyra, Mistress of the Rehearsal: protector or executioner.
Lowtide: her mother's letters stopped three years ago, the same month the princess disappeared.
The first season builds toward the coronation, where Odette must choose between exposing the lie and taking the crown for herself.
WHY I MADE IT
I wanted a character whose look, fears and secrets all come from the same premise, and a story where every episode could end on a question the audience needs answered.
🔥 Odette is such a cool name