The Last Porch Light

Halloween Contest 2026 · AI Shorts / Films / Animation · Contest rules

By Sanyam Singh Brarverified

A lonely ghost waits with a bowl of candy. A pumpkin-costumed visitor runs from its eager greeting, then notices the empty porch and returns with a gift. Their exchange brings light back to the street. AI disclosure: This is an AI-assisted, code-rendered animated short. An AI coding assistant developed the original story, visual designs, animation code and synthesized score. It was rendered locally using Python, Pillow, NumPy and FFmpeg. No text-to-video generator, stock footage, cloned voices or sampled music was used. All characters are fictional. Typography uses Noto Serif and JetBrains Mono under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Production source and asset/font provenance are retained. Runtime: 104 seconds.