Skirmish at the Ruins | Neokosmos: Children of Sol Eternel (Fantasy Short Film)

Renauld, a paladin of Sol Eternel, has so far protected the witch Melisende from his order’s judgment. He carries the Atlantean Sword, said to lead its wielder to a power that can grant any desire. With Maya, a travelling elven scholar, and Talon and Kasa, survivors of the Boar Tribe, he follows the sword to ancient ruins in the hills outside Fresnia. A Fresnian patrol got there first. Chapters 0:00 Title 0:10 The Story So Far 0:50 The Road 1:33 The Fresnian Camp 1:54 Into the Mist 2:17 First Blood 2:52 The Boar 3:39 The Hunter-Mage 4:15 Run for the Bridge 4:28 Melisende’s Fire 5:05 After the Battle 5:15 The Ruins 5:26 To Be Continued Behind the film A ~5½-minute fantasy short built over about a week on a single home PC though with claude and codex support • ~60 shots, each storyboarded as a still image, reviewed, then animated • Drafted at 480p for fast iteration, then every approved shot re-rendered natively at 1080p • ~40 hours of GPU rendering and ~20 hours of directing across ~25 review rounds • Continuous action chained shot to shot; character voices kept consistent, with lip-sync driven by the voice audio Tools: OpenAI image generation (via Codex) for characters, storyboards and title cards · MiniMax H3 image-to-video in ComfyUI, run locally · Qwen-Image for frame edits · Qwen3-TTS for voice casting · Suno for Maya’s voice and the original score · Claude (Anthropic) as production assistant for planning, rendering and editing Music: original score by Oak, made with Suno Created by Oak · Made with AI tools #Neokosmos #FantasyShortFilm #AIFilm #AIAnimation #ShortFilm #DarkFantasy