Explore Javanese Horror: A Story of Shadows and Transformation

Explore Javanese Horror: A Story of Shadows and TransformationExplore Javanese Horror: A Story of Shadows and Transformation

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Dean Wp

• 1d

One bedtime story. A face that changes when the dark comes.

Cerita Ayah ("Father's Story") came from somewhere older. It's the kind of Javanese horror my elders told on dark nights, and it's my first book project. This short is its first breath on screen. A daughter remembers the night her father told her a story: a mother on a dark village road whose face turns monstrous in shadow, and human again only where the light's touches it.

Every shot built in @Renoise Canvas with Seedance 2.0, photoreal references, deep shadow as the rule of the horror, the worst moment in complete silence. Working in Renoise Canvas, the node-based scene-by-scene flow fit this project well — each shot is its own node, so I could build the story beat by beat (dark road → the turn → the transformation → the lamp) and see the whole sequence laid out at once, instead of generating blind.

🎧 Sound on.

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Prasun

• 9h

This is something I have never seen or heard of before and it fascinated me ! Amazing work ! Would love to know your feedback on my submission. Cheers and good luck to you!

Chhavi Malik

pro

• Jun 25

"A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart." -Goethe

And since I cannot escape what I carry, I must feel it to the fullest.

I've been a copywriter for over 8 years now. This is my entry for the cinematic video challenge I made on Renoise (with no videography background) using the only thing I know best: writing. One prompt, a few trials and a chaotic canvas later, this video was written like a scene.

The prompt was the script. The script was the feeling. The feeling became this.

Checkout the comments for the prompt, the inspiration and the BTS from its making:)

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Ansh Jamdagni

pro

• Jun 25

Absolute cinema, love the thought and the result. And this is how making music feels to me. You did a great job in capturing that feeling:)

VL Padmavathi

• Jun 25

One Day is a cinematic short film about the dreams we keep postponing, told through the countdown of a luxury watch that leads to an unexpected ending. I created the entire film in Renoise using Canvas to storyboard the narrative, FacePass for character consistency, and image-to-video generation to bring each scene to life.

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VL Padmavathi

• Jun 25

A small request: Watch with the volume on, and don't skip the last few seconds. 🎬

Mokhtar Goudjili

• Jun 24

In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful

This is a concept that came to me while imagining what might remain after the complete collapse of life on Earth. In a distant future where the planet has become an endless wasteland of ruins, storms, and forgotten civilizations, the last trace of humanity survives in the form of a colossal moving city built in the shape of a giant elephant. Known as the Elephant City, this mechanical titan endlessly wanders across the dead world, carrying the remnants of human knowledge, technology, and history upon its back. No humans are ever seen, and no living creatures remain; their existence is only felt through the abandoned infrastructure, automated systems, and silent architecture that continue to function long after their creators have vanished. As the Elephant City journeys through ancient ruins and mysterious landscapes, it becomes both a monument to a lost civilization and a symbol of humanity's final legacy, searching for meaning in a world that has already reached its end.

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