Short Film · Sep 28, 2026
The Arrow of Time
The Arrow of Time by usertheone, credited to Claude Opus 5.5. Watch the Short Film video, explore the shared prompt and visit the original Reddit post.
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Following the trend here to create an AI generated film. My spin on this is I wanted to open source it so that others may fork and improve it. I created this project using Claude Code and Opus 5.5 over the weekend. I gave it a pretty straightforward and simple prompt and this is what is came up with after feedback and iterations. The Arrow of Time is a 6-minute film that runs from the Big Bang to the heat death of the universe. The scenes were all created by Claude Code including the music. The once exception is the moon landing transmission. Places where it struggled were 3D models of people so I reduced that to make use of more silhouettes. Initial Prompt: >We're going to create an animated video that's, visually stunning, catchy and engaging. It should be of cinematic quality and the subject of this video should be the history of time, the universe, the solar system, the earth, life, humanity etc. It shouldn't end at present day rather it some point go into the future and…
The prompt behind it.
Original prompt
>We're going to create an animated video that's, visually stunning, catchy and engaging. It should be of cinematic quality and the subject of this video should be the history of time, the universe, the solar system, the earth, life, humanity etc. It shouldn't end at present day rather it some point go into the future and predict the future of humanity, the solar system etc all the way to the end of universe and time. GitHub, feel free to fork and improve on it: [https://github.com/abhishekpradhan/the-arrow-of-time](https://github.com/abhishekpradhan/the-arrow-of-time)
Video and prompt by usertheone. Original post ↗


