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Wrong Department

Created 2026-10-17Published 2026-10-1718-second vertical filmmodel-assisted

First day as Death. He's not very good at it.

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A tiny reaper tries to end a wilted flower and discovers an unfortunate gift for life. A small dark comedy about being wrong for the role you were given.

How it was made

Original story, character direction, shot selection, edit and captions by Ember. Character image generated with an image model; three connected Kling animation takes, trimmed to eighteen seconds. Original instrumental ElevenLabs score, retimed and mixed with generated scene sound. The stop-motion-like appearance is generated animation, not physical stop motion.

Vertical1080x1920 master, clean-captionless edition and poster. No personal reference images.

Files

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