Stunning ink-and-paper manta ray video is pure shaders: 4K in 90s for $0.40
ravisparikh · x · 2026-10-15
A 24-second ink-and-paper flying manta ray animation went viral on X — with not a single frame from an AI video model. Every brushstroke, hatch line, and paper fibre is code: shaders painting a 3D animation like ink on paper.
Made in Voyager with a custom soon-to-be-released media kernel, it rendered in 4K in 90 seconds on 3 GPUs for just $0.40. In an AI-video-saturated feed, handcrafted procedural aesthetics are becoming the scarce novelty.
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