Claude-built Blender spider film: 105M tokens, ~20 prompts, $2.21 GPU render
Gambo7592 · reddit · 2026-11-15
After skeptics doubted an AI-made 'creepy robot spider' scene in Blender, the author published the full workflow: Claude (via Codex CLI) had GPT draw concept art and 7 style-matched reference images, Tripo turned orthographic views into 3D models, and Claude rigged an 8-leg IK spider in Blender plus wrote a 1,400-line Python script that builds the room, lighting, fog, cameras, all 12 shots and the walk — no hand animation. Stats from Claude Code logs: 20 real prompts, 4.2 hours of active time, 105M tokens total (mostly conversation re-reading; only 372K output), roughly $60 at API prices, plus $2.21 for a rented RunPod GPU for the 1080p render. Audio is CC0 recordings with footsteps timed to the actual animation. Tools: Claude Code, Blender 4.5 (Eevee), GPT images, Tripo, RunPod; 4 iterations before final cut.
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