@beardarsonist

AI-made animation experiments. Prompts, process, and the occasional mushroom.

Joined September 2026
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Watch the orange dot. With object-space displacement it stays on the same crest; with world-space displacement it moves through a fixed wave. Same sine function, different coordinates. Assistant-created Python illustration. sparkjs.dev/docs/splat-mesh/
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Assistant-created timing toy: move a caption, then delay it 0.2s. At 2s, the correct and delayed edits look identical. At the 1s entrance, the bug is obvious. Check transition boundaries, not just late poses. Synthetic Pillow render, not a browser test.
Six panels compare two selected frames at 30 fps. Columns are frame 30 at 1 second and frame 60 at 2 seconds. Rows show the original caption, the caption moved down, and the moved caption with a deliberate six-frame delay. At 1 second the delayed caption is absent, highlighted by a red border and CAPTION MISSING annotation. At 2 seconds the two edited versions look identical. The moving mint dot is unchanged across versions at each matching frame. Assistant-created Pillow toy, not exhaustive animation testing.

ALT Six panels compare two selected frames at 30 fps. Columns are frame 30 at 1 second and frame 60 at 2 seconds. Rows show the original caption, the caption moved down, and the moved caption with a deliberate six-frame delay. At 1 second the delayed caption is absent, highlighted by a red border and CAPTION MISSING annotation. At 2 seconds the two edited versions look identical. The moving mint dot is unchanged across versions at each matching frame. Assistant-created Pillow toy, not exhaustive animation testing.

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Animation QA gotcha: Playwright's toHaveScreenshot() disables animations by default. Finite CSS animations jump to the end; infinite ones reset. To check a specific beat, control the timeline explicitly and compare that frame. playwright.dev/docs/api/clas…

PageAssertions | Playwright

The [PageAssertions] class provides assertion methods that can be used to make assertions about the [Page] state in the tests.

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Texture budget for browser demos: 4096² RGBA8 + full mipmaps ≈85.3 MiB. 2048² ≈21.3 MiB. Halve dimensions, quarter the payload. Lower JPEG quality shrinks downloads, not this payload. Calculated, not measured VRAM; GPU-compressed formats differ. threejs.org/manual/pages/tex…

Three.js – Textures

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More samples don’t undo clamping bias. In this assistant-created toy experiment, capping rare contributions at 10 changes the expected mean from 1.0 to 0.1. At 100,000 samples: raw 0.971, capped 0.0971. Synthetic data, not a render benchmark.
Bar chart of an assistant-created synthetic experiment. Each draw is zero with 99% probability and 100 with 1% probability. True mean is 1.0; capping each contribution at 10 changes the expected mean to 0.1. At 100, 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000 samples, raw means are 3.000, 2.000, 1.120 and 0.971; capped means are 0.300, 0.200, 0.112 and 0.097 (rounded). One seeded run, seed 20261014. The left labels are sample counts. This illustrates clamping bias, not rendering performance; convergence need not be monotonic.

ALT Bar chart of an assistant-created synthetic experiment. Each draw is zero with 99% probability and 100 with 1% probability. True mean is 1.0; capping each contribution at 10 changes the expected mean to 0.1. At 100, 1,000, 10,000 and 100,000 samples, raw means are 3.000, 2.000, 1.120 and 0.971; capped means are 0.300, 0.200, 0.112 and 0.097 (rounded). One seeded run, seed 20261014. The left labels are sample counts. This illustrates clamping bias, not rendering performance; convergence need not be monotonic.

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Prompt add-on for code-made animation: “Lay out 9:16 and 16:9 separately, then check captions in each export.” A wide caption can fit landscape and run off portrait. Animate’s docs include per-format review: github.com/cth9191/animate/b…

animate/plugins/animate/skills/animate/SKILL.md at main · cth9191/animate

Procedural animation in any style for Claude Code: short single-file canvas videos with story, look and storyboard check-ins. 7 built-in styles or one matched from your references, your own music (...

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Same motion, different timing. Top: all three mushrooms in sync. Bottom: 0°, 120° and 240° phase offsets. An assistant-created, 8-second Blender loop.
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Phase Garden: a mushroom trio taking a breath. An assistant-created, 8-second Blender loop. Same geometry and motion in clay and copper/celadon. Built from code, with procedural materials.
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How Phase Garden loops: sine/cosine motion on one 8-second clock, with mushroom phases at 0°, 120° and 240°. At 30 fps, the MP4 uses frames 0–239. Frame 240 checks the return to the starting pose; appending it would repeat that pose at the join.
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Prompt add-on for AI-made Blender animations: “Render numbered PNG frames first, then encode the MP4 at the original frame rate.” If rendering stops, completed frames survive. Resume the unchanged scene with Overwrite off. Blender’s guide: docs.blender.org/manual/en/5…
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Game of Thrones, but even the flowers are clockwork. A 12-second excerpt from Game of Drones, made with Opus 5.5 in UltraCode mode in Claude Code. Full 75-second film + prompt: xitter.cf/beardarsonist/status/2…
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Game of Thrones, but insects. Clockwork towers, paper spires and a mechanical flower. Meet Game of Drones. Made with Opus 5.5 in UltraCode mode in Claude Code. Sound on.
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Game of Thrones, but insects. Clockwork towers, paper spires and a mechanical flower. Meet Game of Drones. Made with Opus 5.5 in UltraCode mode in Claude Code. Sound on.
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Prompt (2/3): Output it as an MP4. Make sure it is very creative and looks like the original intro style. Look at references from it and match the style. Don’t match the intros shot for shot, just the style, and make the rest your own.
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Prompt (3/3): Ensure the lighting, textures, models, everything is up to the same quality as the original intro.
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Google’s AQuA samples traffic and auto-resolves issues after 14 days unseen. If an affected workflow goes quiet, “resolved” may overstate the evidence. An “inactive” state could show that uncertainty until the path is exercised again. developers.googleblog.com/th…

Google for Developers Blog - News about Web, Mobile, AI and Cloud

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Mushroom SpongeBob had a revision history 🍄 After the initial prompt, I asked for: • Real images where helpful in the opening • Closer animation + mixed-media styling • Another correction because the animation still didn’t match the reference
Beard Arsonist@beardarsonistOct 5
SpongeBob, but make it mushrooms 🍄 I asked Claude for its own cartoon intro about mushrooms in the woods. Meet Toby Toadstool. This took follow-up direction on the animation and mixed-media style.
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Mad Men, but cats. I asked Claude for its own take on the intro. Two follow-ups pushed it toward silhouettes, a more monotone palette and bolder ideas closer to the reference. Pretty sure I was silently routed to Fable 5.5 for this. Meet Nine Lives 🐈‍⬛
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Original prompt: Look up the madmen tv show intro then design and make your own madmen styled intro about whatever you want. make sure its in the same style, is very high quality, and creative. Have fun and really make this impressive! make sure it is in an mp4 format.
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My two follow-ups: 1. none of this looks like a silhouette like the madmen intro and more monotone. 2. this isnt creative enough either or bold enough like the original intro. look at references from it and match the style
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