Short Film · Oct 2, 2026
CLAUDE CODE MADE THIS 2-MINUTE CARTOON IN A FEW HOURS. EVERY FRAME AND EVERY NOTE IS CODE.
CLAUDE CODE MADE THIS 2-MINUTE CARTOON IN A FEW HOURS. EVERY FRAME AND EVERY NOTE IS CODE. by Sethian. Watch the Short Film video and visit the original X post.
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View on XCLAUDE CODE MADE THIS 2-MINUTE CARTOON IN A FEW HOURS. EVERY FRAME AND EVERY NOTE IS CODE. I didn't draw anything or write any of it, and no video model was involved. Claude came up with the story, drew each shot in JavaScript and wrote the music, even the strings and the choir are generated from formulas. There's no dialogue, so quick plot: A baby whale that lives in the sky falls into a desert and cries for help until its light almost goes out. The herd finds it, the mother lifts it back up, and each whale drags a curtain of rain across the dry valley. That's why it's called Where the Rain Comes From. It ran in a cloud session. Anthropic gave me $100 in free credits for those and the cartoon took $30. My part was watching each version and sending notes like "half the whales are off screen". Then Claude on my MacBook rendered the final video in 20 minutes, for free. If you want to try: - create a GitHub repo for the project - start a cloud session on it from the Claude…
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