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Stories made scene by scene

A small collection of story experiments made with Clever Tales Studio.

Generated anime cinematic frame: Detective Vale in a dark overcoat crosses a narrow iron suspension bridge in driving rain, lightning forking over black waves, toward a floating stone mansion of lit windows where a footman waits with a lantern.

Anime

The Mansion Above the Storm

A detective crosses a rain-lashed iron bridge to a mansion that hangs above the sea, and learns that once the bridges are raised, nobody leaves.

Generated illustrated cinematic frame, portrait format: Marek the lighthouse keeper in a knit cap and pea coat climbs a rusted spiral stair into the lantern room and reaches for a small oil lamp beside the great brass lens, with a coal bucket, an oil can and an open logbook on the wet floor.

Illustrated

The Door in the Fog

A lighthouse keeper on a black promontory keeps to his routine while the fog below the tower begins to move with a pulse of its own.

Generated cinematic frame: before dawn in a small kitchen in northern Brazil, Claudio's mother kneels to fold a shirt into his open suitcase while his father sits at the table with a coffee cup, his brother and sister look on, and Claudio stands between them.

Realistic

Claudio’s Journey to Rio

A young man leaves his family in northern Brazil for Rio de Janeiro, where the city nearly swallows him before a chance collision outside a bakery gives him Cristina, and a reason to stay.

Generated photoreal cinematic frame: in a sunlit chain-link kennel yard, a big shaggy grey dog stands nose to nose with a small terrier beside a steel water bowl on a concrete pad, while a second small terrier drinks from a bowl in the foreground and a volunteer walks along the far fence.

Realistic

Paws Apart, Hearts Aligned

Two shelter dogs, one huge and one tiny, meet in the same strip of shade and learn to share a water bowl before they learn to trust each other.