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Ink Rabbit Shadow Scroll

Short Film Chinese Ink 2026-08-22

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MiniMax H3はこういう動きも綺麗ですね😃

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integrated_multimodal_description: [Shot 1] Traditional Japanese sumi ink painting brought to
life in the style of the 12th-century handscroll Choju-jinbutsu-giga, in a 16:9 composition.
Every element — animals, splatter, streaks, ripples — is painted in black sumi ink on warm
off-white handscroll paper with visible fiber texture, drawn with supple brush lines that are
thick where the brush lands and taper to a fine point where it lifts, with large areas of bare
paper left empty. The entire film is one unbroken take: the camera trucks left continuously
from the first frame to the last and never cuts. The hero is a small rabbit whose left ear is
folded forward at the base while its right ear stands straight up, noticeably smaller than
every other animal, and it appears in every part of the film. All effects are brushed ink —
flicked droplets of uneven size, dry-brush streaks with visible bristle gaps, wobbling brushed
circles — never particles, never smoke, never 3D fluid, never glowing, never blurred. No color
anywhere except the three vermilion moments described below. No Japanese or Chinese characters,
no calligraphy, no legible seal script, no subtitles, no watermark, no logo, no Chinese
landscape scenery with rocks and pines, no shading, no gradients, no 3D rendering.
Open on a fully black frame in silence. A broad white brush slash tears diagonally across it
from the upper right to the lower left, and warm off-white paper floods out through the tear
until the whole frame is paper, with white droplets spraying from both edges of the tear. A
single horizontal ink stroke then draws itself from right to left and becomes the ground, and
the folded-ear rabbit bounds in from the right edge along it with both hind feet clear of the
ground and both ears streaming behind. The camera trucks left with large amplitude at slow
speed.
[Shot 2] At 00:02.500, the same unbroken leftward pan carries a river into frame, drawn as four
long parallel strokes. A frog kicks up a sheet of water with its hind legs and the spray becomes
a dense burst of flicked ink droplets that covers the entire frame before falling away. The
folded-ear rabbit turns aside with only its left side darkened by wash where the water struck,
while two rabbits on the far bank double over laughing. The camera keeps trucking left with
large amplitude at slow speed.
[Shot 3] At 00:05.000, with no cut, the pan brings the folded-ear rabbit into frame drawing a
bow. It looses the arrow and the bowstring vibrates as a doubled line, the arrow flying wide as
one long dry-brush streak that cuts across the frame while fine ink lines radiate outward from
its path. The small center of the round target flares vermilion, the first color in the film, as
a monkey holding the target points at the rabbit and falls backward. The camera keeps trucking
left with large amplitude at slow speed.
[Shot 4] At 00:06.500, the leftward pan decelerates until it almost stops, holding on a large
frog and the folded-ear rabbit locked in a wrestling grip with a ring of animals frozen around
them. Nothing moves except one animal's ear, which twitches once. All ink effects stop and the
frame is mostly bare paper.
[Shot 5] At 00:07.500, the frog throws the folded-ear rabbit and four things happen at the same
instant. The paper and the ink invert, so the ground turns deep solid black and every brush line
is left bare white. The entire frame flushes vermilion for a single instant and clears. A large
solid vermilion seal, a plain block with an abstract carved pattern and no legible characters,
stamps down over the lower left with slightly uneven edges. The camera surges out of its
near-stop and trucks left with large amplitude at fast speed while the rabbit hangs upside down
at the top of its arc with all four limbs flung open, drawn larger than any figure so far, white
dry-brush streaks radiating from it to the frame edges. At 00:08.500, the black field washes
back to warm off-white paper and every line returns to dark ink.
[Shot 6] At 00:10.000, the pan carries in the folded-ear rabbit back on its feet, holding a
lotus leaf over its head like a canopy and throwing its throat back in mock sermon. Concentric
brushed ink circles spread outward from its head, each ring wobbling and breaking where the
brush lifted. As the rings reach them, four animals sitting at increasing distances topple over
one after another, the nearest first and the farthest last, the frog among them. The camera
keeps trucking left with large amplitude at fast speed.
[Shot 7] At 00:12.500, four animals hoist the folded-ear rabbit onto their shoulders and carry
it toward the left edge, the rabbit still rising with one arm thrown out and the rearmost tail
cropped by the frame. Behind them every remaining ink mark is drawn into a tight brushed spiral
that winds toward a single point and thins as it goes, until the frame is empty warm paper, and
at that point the last of the ink turns into a small solid vermilion seal. The camera slows and
settles, holding the bare paper and the small seal until exactly 15.000 seconds.

overall_soundscape: The film opens in complete silence, broken by one sharp tear of a brush
ripping across paper. Water bursts and scatters in heavy droplets, a bowstring snaps and hums,
and brush bristles drag across dry paper. Frogs and monkeys let out short calls and bodies thud
against packed ground. Between 00:06.500 and 00:07.500 almost all sound drains away to near
silence, and a single hardwood clapper strikes sharply at 00:07.500. Ink hisses softly as it
soaks into paper at the end. No dialogue.

non_diegetic_music: A shinobue bamboo flute and a small kotsuzumi hand drum. Begin slow and
sparse, stop completely at 00:06.500, restart at 00:07.500 with fast tight drum strikes, lighten
as the flute takes the melody back, and end on one sustained flute note held alone until
15.000 seconds.

Details

Target model MiniMax H3
Use case Short Film
Style Chinese Ink
Media Video
Duration 15.1s
Aspect ratio 16:9
Likes 27
Published 2026-08-22

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