RUS-T is an AI sci fi short film about duty, betrayal, survival, and what happens when a machine begins to question its purpose. RUS-T has one job. Complete the mission. Stationed alone at a remote outpost on Mars, he has spent his existence following orders and doing exactly what he was designed to do. But when he discovers that his crew is gone and his captain has abandoned him, everything he understands about his mission begins to unravel. What starts as another day on the job becomes a fight for survival across the Martian landscape, and a journey that forces RUS-T to make decisions he was never designed to make. I created RUS-T over four months as both a film and an exploration of where AI filmmaking is heading. I wanted to see how far I could push a workflow where I was still making the filmmaking decisions, designing the character, staging scenes, choosing cameras, directing motion, shaping performances, and then using generative AI to take those ideas further. RUS-T began as a 3D character in Reallusion Character Creator. From there, I used iClone for scene planning, animation, cameras, then Reallusion AI Studio to bring those ideas into generative production. Nano Banana was used for image generation, Seedance 2.0 for video, and Adobe Premiere Pro for the final edit.