SnoutShine
About the film

It started in a closet

A thirty-second ad for a product that doesn't exist, built from a short story that does.

Lila and Clara sharing cheesesteaks on the closet floor, the stone glowing between them

Clara's Closet

How this whole thing started.

Before there was an ad, there was a story.

Clara is eight. Her mom, Lila, works the kind of hours that pay the rent and quietly pocket your joy as a service fee. Clara noticed. Eight-year-olds always notice.

So Clara did what any sensible adventurer would do: she opened her closet and found a whole world in there. She travels it with a trusted crew — Harumph, an elephant of unimpeachable integrity, and Mazie, a vintage doll her mother loved back when loving things was easier. Every land Clara visits, she brings something home. The shelf fills up. The worlds add up.

The SnoutShine stone is one of those souvenirs — the one she brought back for her mom. Because if the world worked the joy out of Lila, Clara figured she'd simply go get more. That's what the closet is for.

(And someday, maybe, Clara's adventures become a YouTube channel — for kids, and for any adult whose joy is also being quietly pocketed.)

Clara riding Harumph through felt clouds, Mazie holding on behind, reaching for a flying cheesesteak

Clara, Harumph and Mazie in the Land of Felt Weather, in pursuit of lunch.

Two felt GlowNuzzle snouts touching, glowing warm pink

GlowNuzzles in action.

Clara and Harumph sitting in moonlit grass beneath two moons

Clara and Harumph feel sadness — background hand painted in Rebelle.

How it was made

Three tools, one closet, and a lot of re-rendering.

Runway

Compositing & animation

Dream scenes start from my own original artwork, created in Rebelle and Photoshop. Animated in Runway.

ElevenLabs

Voices

The perfect voices, cultivated from ElevenLabs.

Premiere Pro

Post

Edit, sound, grade and the end card — assembled and finished in Premiere Pro.

From the closet floor

Work-in-progress capture — the cheesesteak scene coming together.
Clara, Harumph and Mazie — an early animation test.

The stone is still sold out

But the closet stays open. Watch the ad again, or take a land home with you.

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