Short Film · Oct 7, 2026
I asked Opus 5.5 to create a short film on the meaning of life
I asked Opus 5.5 to create a short film on the… by char-gen, credited to Claude Opus 5.5. Watch the Short Film video and visit the original Reddit post.
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This began as an experiment: give Claude Opus 5.5, GPT 6 Astra and GPT 6.1 Sol the same question and ask each to storyboard, illustrate and animate its answer as a 60-second film. Opus made .. well what it made (won't ruin it if you haven't watched). I found it ridiculously beautiful. It felt so human and so full of hope that I wanted to share the complete film here. Key word - so ... nice? It didn't fee too obscure, it was very approachable, and hopeful, especially with all the current anti tech sentiments and general doomerism. Each model chose its answer, script, imagery and storyboard in an iterative tool-enabled harness, with xhigh reasoning requested. The workflow used Blender, HyperFrames and ElevenLabs V4 narration. All three complete films, the brief and method are available here (mainly because I really wanted to highlight Opus' work and not detract from it by also showing GPT 6 Astra and GPT 6.1 Sols)…
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