Driving tldraw Flash with Astra computer use to make a 2-minute animated movie
max__drake · x · 2026-09-09
- A creator got off the waitlist for tldraw's new Flash mode (canvas animation recording) and had Google's Astra drive it via computer use, aiming to turn Odysseus and the Cyclops into a 2-minute movie using native elements.
- Key findings: computer-use mouse drags caused stuttering motion; recording many smaller movements and speeding them up 2× in Flash (8s → 4s) produced smooth motion.
- The full movie hit a project storage limit, so it was split into 5 Flash projects / 16 scenes, exported and stitched together.
- Verdict: "it kinda can" — workable but with clear limitations, a real-world test of computer-use agents doing creative work.
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