Nuh and the Ark: one production, a film and nine shorts.

The first film from our own animation channel: a four-minute story told in thirty narrated scenes, then cut down into vertical shorts for phones.

The ark run aground on wet rock as the floodwater drains away, sunlight breaking through heavy cloud over a village beyond. — The ark on dry ground as the water goes down, from the last scene of the film.

The brief

A retelling of one of the best-known stories in the Qur’an, for families, that a parent could put on without checking it first. That set two rules before any drawing began: the story follows its sources, and a prophet is never given a face. Where Nuh appears, he is shown as light.

How it was made

Script and shot list first. Thirty narrated scenes, each planned as a shot before anything was generated.
AI-assisted imagery, chosen by hand. Frames were generated with AI tools, then selected, rejected and regenerated against the shot list and the depiction rule.
Narration and subtitles. English narration with a complete subtitle track.
One production, several formats. Our own pipeline renders the widescreen film and the vertical cuts from the same plan, so the shorts were not a second production.

Watch it on the Tuwa Studio YouTube channel.

The vertical cuts

Reframed for a phone, with captions that carry the story when the sound is off.

A figure rendered as pure radiant light beneath a hooded robe, standing above a green river valley under a stormy, sunlit sky. — 950 Years
The length of the call, and what it cost. Prophets are shown only as light — never with a face.

Craftsmen building a large wooden ship on dry desert ground beside a small mudbrick village. — A Ship in the Desert
Building an ark on dry land, in front of people who thought it was madness.

A girl in a headscarf reaching out as water rises unexpectedly from a clay oven, under a heavy grey sky. — The Sign
Water coming up out of the oven — the moment the waiting ended.

A figure of light in a white robe, seen from behind, reaching toward the ark through heavy rain and lightning over a dark sea. — The Son
A father calling to a son who would not come aboard. The hardest scene in the episode.

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