Congrats @Abhishek Patel the squirrel gag killed me. Great piece.

Congrats, @Sarah Laferte , well-deserved monthly win! Brutus is a perfectly rounded piece, beginning to end. Barking his heart out at the paper boy and then going back to sleep without a victory is such a great ending. Loved it. Great work also!!!!

BARK FUEL · Film 02 · ISAÍAS · THE BORDER Isaías is a 3 kg Pomeranian living in a Brooklyn brownstone. For three years he has defended his window against a fearsome rival. The rival is a fat cat who sits in the window box and licks his paw. The campaign runs on two worlds. The dog's mind is shot like cinema: cold, epic, with a nature-documentary narrator. The truth is told by the cameras watching him: cheap pet cams and security cameras that never move. The narrator never finds out. The food is the only moment both versions agree. The biggest lesson came from Kevin, the first film. There, the joke happened inside a wide, flat security shot, and it didn't land. In Isaías, the joke lives in the cut: from a slow-motion roar to a hysterical yip clipping the pet cam's microphone. Then every shot pulls further away and the bark gets smaller, until at the corner nobody hears it at all. Process: — Close-ups in Midjourney — Security cameras in Nano Banana, always editing one master plate per camera — A lot of Photoshop for continuity (the bowl, the food, the window box) — Voices and sound in ElevenLabs Unleash the beast. Even if he's a total goofball. All feedback welcome.

Also cut a :15 version. Different joke, same dog: he only barks once the cat is gone.

Great work @Sarah Laferte congrats!!!

Bark Fuel — Film 01: The Vacuum. Kevin is a Finnish Lapphund living in a small apartment in Queens. In his head, he’s a wolf. In cinema, we follow the hunter: the eye opening, the ear turning, the paw landing, the frozen stare. On the pet cam, we see the truth: the robot vacuum leaves its dock and the wolf’s tail starts to tremble. Then the bowl gets filled, and for five seconds reality finally looks the way he imagines it. Freeze-dried raw. Grass-fed beef. Unleash the beast. (He’s afraid of the vacuum cleaner.) First of a series of four films. Made with Midjourney, Nano Banana and Blender.

I went through everyone's submissions, and it's fascinating how the same concept took us in so many different directions. You could feel the love and work in every single one. Really proud to be part of this group. Can't wait to hear the feedback.