An original slice of life

An original slice of life short I'm developing. Dennis and his pet otter Jack, one ordinary morning that turns into a day out.

Feature-animation 3D, golden hour throughout. Warm key, cool bounce fill, golden rim, a palette of terracotta, cream, sage and charcoal. The look was chosen so a small domestic story still feels like it belongs on a big screen.

There's no dialogue carrying it. Every beat lands through timing, reaction and physical comedy, so the edit is doing as much work as the animation. Jack stays an otter the whole way through: he never talks, never stands like a person, and the comedy comes out of that gap rather than around it.

Generated with Seedance 2.5 on fal.ai. Character sheets and style bible locked before a single shot got produced, then boarded beat by beat so reactions sit in the same shot as their cause.

Concept, character design, animation, sound design and final edit, all handled in one pipeline.