29-minute claymation film built in 7 days with Opus 5.5 Max on a GTX 1660 Ti
Humble-Scale4941 · reddit · 2026-11-10
The author produced a 28:51 clay-style animated film about security awareness in 7 days on a laptop (GTX 1660 Ti, 6GB VRAM): 41,562 frames, 33 hours of GPU rendering, no render farm. Open source.
Multi-model division of labor was the core workflow
- Opus 5.5 Max: implementation and iteration (Blender scenes, animation systems, rendering pipeline, Remotion compositions)
- Haiku 5.5 (xhigh): visual inspection of rendered frames
- GPT-6.1 Terra Max via Codex: independent read-only reviews
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 / hy4: additional verification passes
Other details
- Stack: Blender, Remotion, FFmpeg, Sarvam Bulbul, ElevenLabs, Tripo3D, etc.
- Custom lettering engine with 68 hand-drawn glyphs; 24fps on twos for stop-motion rhythm
- Started as a security-awareness project for the author's father; creative decisions still needed human attention throughout
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