The Last Ingredient

A Pixar-Style Animated Short Film

A small robot chef named Clank cooks perfect dishes that taste like nothing. When a little girl asks for "something that tastes like home," he discovers that the missing ingredient was never in his database — it was in his heart.

The Film

Storyboard

12-frame cinematic storyboard for The Last Ingredient

Characters

CLANK

2-foot tall spherical robot. Brushed copper body, one large blue eye lens, tiny chef hat, stubby mechanical arms with whisk and spatula attachments. His expressive antenna curls with emotion.

MAYA

7-year-old girl with curly black hair in two puffs, oversized yellow raincoat, big curious eyes, and a missing front tooth. She carries a crayon drawing of her grandmother.