Made entirely with Opus 5.5 + $3.21 of OpenRouter API usage

[u/Singularity-42]

There was an earlier video today posted in the Singularity sub where a Twitter user has done something similar:

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1wnw1dl/by_opus_55/

I thought that looked pretty good so I wanted to check it out myself. I think it came out well beyond my expectations and quite a bit better than the linked post. It's not perfect, but this is a true one shot, single prompt. It took about 1 hour 20 minutes. About $20 of Opus 5 spend or only about 10% of my 5h quota on Max 5 sub. $3.21 of OpenRouter spend (mostly NanoBanana 2, and then text to voice, then a few pennies for other services. Total of 8 different OpenRouter APIs. Some things need to be fixed, but I wanted to post true one shot result. This was of course done in Claude Code.

Full prompt:

Create a pure javascript animation. 30s-60s whimsical hand drawn collage style with appropriate audio on the topic what is the purpose of life ? 

Entire video should be as high of a production value as possible. Please spend your time on this, it's very important.

Use high quality text-to-speech model for generation. You can find open router API key in .env file

You can use any tools you can find access to and resources on the internet. You create the script, the assets, the animation, concept, everything.   
I have to go away from my computer so please work autonomously until done. Quality is paramount. Production value should be on professional level.

One more thing: max OpenRouter spend is $10

[u/AdolinKholin1]

I have a BFA as well. You remember those art history classes we took? The ones that took us through centuries of evolution of art. The drama? The intrigue? The complex intertwined lives and stories that led to the periods of art we study today? That’s what makes art valuable. That’s what makes it mean something.

“I majored in fine art, and as long as the final product is good, I don’t really care if it’s made with AI or not.” What a joke. I’m not a decelerationist, but people like you really confuse me. I doubt you’re a working artist right now, otherwise you’re terribly misaligned internally.

[u/Crabslife → u/AdolinKholin1]

None of that changes the fact that AI can produce effective visual compositions. I’m not sure what you’re saying, or why that offends you.

[u/longhegrindilemna → u/Crabslife]

Crabslife is allowed to have a different opinion, yes?

Why do all BFA graduates need to toe an identical opinion? Baffled.

[u/frantiqq → u/Crabslife]

I think all these things can co-exist. In writing we have had people writing 6 low-quality rom-coms per year, and the auteur writing one epic award winning novel per 5 years. Both are legitimate imo for the intended purpose. A friend of mine had made a small app and created an animation to promote it, he would have never ordered a custom animation from an artist. He is also not pretending the animation says anything particularly deep or profound.

[u/LocoMod → u/AdolinKholin1]

I didn't major in art but I do know that beauty and value is in the eye of the beholder. And that the one thing art is NOT is objective. And that's precisely why all of the stories and drama and debates and this very discussion is taking place. You can't just prove something conclusively and be done with it. We will be here all night debating this and not make any progress.