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Untitled short — Daniił Vołkaŭ (rubber-duck film)

by Daniił Vołkaŭ · Daniil Volkau · machina9000

A pickle director repeatedly restages a rubber duck’s death scene across incompatible genres.

Format
Short film
Genre
Animated filmmaking comedy
Year
2026
Runtime
2 min
Added
1 Nov 2026

Why this short matters

The repeated request for another take becomes the story. A duck performer and an increasingly demanding pickle director keep a connected comic relationship while the production world changes around them. Sampled footage shifts the duck into a space setting with a cardboard rocket and a bored-looking boom operator.

The complete 1:32 release is a ten-scene filmmaking comedy, rather than an isolated model showcase. Its method is useful because the reference set remains stable while genre and staging change. No official film title is invented, and the fictional retake count is kept separate from production accounting. Original release, current player, sampled scenes and full method reply were checked.

Production notebook

What the makers have disclosed. Credits may be partial.

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Reference and generation settings

The maker names three anime character sheets and ten scenes in Pika H3 Flex Reference-to-Video, using a 768p draft with audio stems enabled. The same characters are carried across science fiction, noir, opera and cooking-show scenarios.

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Title and production scope

No separate official title is supplied in the checked original post; this catalogue title is descriptive. The caption’s 47 retakes are part of the comic premise, not a verified generation count. Other collaborators, editor, complete team and costs remain unknown.

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