The Lantern Crab
A timid hermit crab adopts a broken lighthouse lens as its shell and accidentally becomes the only light protecting a reef from creatures that hunt in darkness.
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The story
Pip has survived by choosing the smallest shells and avoiding attention. When the stolen lens throws his shadow across the entire seabed, he must guide a quarrelsome reef community through a trench where light attracts danger as often as it repels it.
- Original title
- The Lantern Crab
- Pays / région
- États-Unis
- Genres
- Fantastique · Horreur · Comédie
- Langue
- anglais
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 86:00
- Director
- Luca Fable
Creative process
Humans retain final control over script, casting intent, performance direction, shot selection, continuity, edit, sound, color, safety review and release approval.
Completed on February 6, 2026 and theatrically released on February 20, 2026; completed and released as of July 17, 2026. Human-authored brief and shot list; supervised current-model generation; manual edit; licensed sound and color finishing; legal, safety and technical quality control.
- AI participation (source-declared)
- 75 %
- Creative method
- Animation synthétique
- Format
- Animation
- Resolution
- 4K
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1
- Frame rate
- 24
- Delivery format
- DCP 4K Scope + ProRes 422 HQ archival master
- Subtitles
- anglais · français · allemand · coréen · japonais · thaï