Full prompt shared: directing a 45-second animated short entirely in code with an LLM
dotey · x · 2026-09-26
A long production prompt turns an LLM into a full animation studio — director, animator, rigger, compositor, sound designer and renderer — to produce a 45-50 second animated short entirely in code.
Key elements:
- Character bible: Pip, a 28cm scrap-built robot, with non-negotiable design specs (rounded helmet, eye screen, emotion antenna, decals); the prompt requires studying a reference image and writing docs/characterbible.md before any code.
- Story: a dialogue-free short where every 3-5 seconds delivers a new visual beat; Pip realizes his reality is prompt-controlled, ending with a nested reveal that his universe is a video on a phone.
- Workflow: milestone-driven — render stills, review, critique honestly, fix; 'don't rush the final render.'
It doubles as a reusable template for AI-driven code animation pipelines.
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