// BUILT WITH CLAUDE CODE · FABLE 5.2

A 60-second film
with no camera.

Jay asked Claude Code, running the Fable 5.2 model, for a short film for Agency Builders. Nothing in it was filmed or screen recorded. The room is a 3D scene built by code, and the laptop shows the real website, drawn one frame at a time. Here is how to copy it.

A 3D rendered desk at sunrise with a laptop showing the Agency Builders homepage, a lamp, books, a mug and a retreat badge.
The last shot. A 4K test frame, straight from the render.
60 s film12 camera shots1,344 rendered frames0 cameras1 Mac

The idea

The film is three pieces that all read the same clock. Every piece asks "what second is it?", so a click on the screen, a camera cut and a sound all land on the same frame.

PIECE A

The screen

Your website, rebuilt as one web page that can draw any moment of the film.

PIECE B

The room

A desk, laptop, lamp and window, built in Blender by script. Cameras and light are scripted too.

PIECE C

The finish

Color, title lines, an end card, music and sound effects.

timeline.json → 24 frames per second, every shot's start and end, the click at 15.0 s

What you need

  • Claude CodeThe desktop app. It writes the scripts and runs them for you. This film used the Fable 5.2 model.
  • BlenderFree 3D software. You never have to open it. Claude runs it in the background.
  • Chrome and ffmpegChrome takes the screen pictures. ffmpeg is a free tool that joins frames into a video.
  • Your real brandSite files or URL, logo, colors, fonts and photos. Real content only.
  • ElevenLabsOptional. It made the score, the click, the night air and the dawn birds.
  • A decent computerThis one was a Mac with an Apple chip. Slower machines work, they take longer.

The steps, in order

  1. Say the story in one sentence

    This one came from the Agency Builders homepage: "It's lonely at the top. It doesn't have to be that way." Night becomes sunrise while the owner's week fills in.

  2. Write the clock first

    One small file lists each shot with its start and end time. Every other script reads it.

  3. Build the screen as a web page

    The page has one job: given a time, draw that exact moment. No animations that run on their own. Chrome then saves 1,345 pictures of it in about a minute.

  4. Build the room by script

    Walls, desk, laptop, lamp, mug, books and a retreat badge, all sized in real metres. The screen pictures become the glowing laptop display.

  5. Script the cameras and the light

    Twelve cameras, each with a start and end position. The sky, sun and lamp change with the clock, so night turns to dawn on cue.

  6. Look at one still per shot

    This is the cheap place to catch problems. Twelve small test pictures took 19 seconds. Framing, a too-bright screen and an empty window all got fixed here.

  7. Render a small draft before anything big

    The full film at 720p took about 45 minutes. Approve the story and timing on this, before the 4K.

  8. Add titles, color and sound

    Four title lines and an end card are web pages saved as pictures. Music and effects are mixed to a standard loudness.

  9. Render the final overnight

    One 4K frame takes about 30 seconds on this Mac, so the full film is an overnight job. Renting graphics cards online can cut that to about an hour for a few dollars.

The room at night. One lamp is on, the chair is empty and trees show through the window.
Shot 1. Night, one lamp, an empty chair.
The laptop screen showing a weekly calendar from the Agency Builders site.
Shot 5. The real site on the laptop.
Close up of an Agency Builders Retreat badge leaning on a stack of books in warm morning light.
Shot 10. First sun on the retreat badge.
Wide view of the desk at sunrise with window light across the back wall.
Shot 12. Sunrise, pulling back.

A prompt to start with

Paste this into Claude Code and fill in the brackets.

Make me a 60-second 3D film for [my business]. Build it in Blender with Python scripts. No camera footage and no screen recording.

The set is one room with a desk and a laptop. The laptop screen shows my real website, [URL or folder], rebuilt as a web page that can draw any moment of the film from a time value.

Story in one sentence: [your story].

Use my real logo, colors, fonts and photos from [folder]. Never invent facts, quotes, names or numbers.

Work in this order:
1. Write one timeline file that every script reads.
2. Build the screen page and capture it frame by frame.
3. Build the room, then about 12 camera shots and the light.
4. Show me one still per shot and fix what looks wrong.
5. Render a 720p draft with titles, an end card and music.

Stop before the 4K render and ask me first.

What went wrong, so you can skip it

ProblemFix
Empty windowThe window looked out on flat blue. A row of tree outlines and a few hundred tiny star points gave it a view.
Fake-looking starsA noise pattern for stars came out like TV static. Small dots placed far away looked right the first time.
Washed-out screenThe laptop glowed too bright and blew out white pages. Turning the glow down by a third fixed it.
Chair in the wayThe chair blocked the last shot. Check every camera after you move a prop.
Stiff lanyardTwo separate straps ended abruptly on the desk. One continuous loop reads as fabric.
Wrong ElevenLabs keyThe key's ID is not the key. The real one starts with sk_ and is shown only once, when you create it.

The numbers

ItemValue
Film60 seconds at 24 frames per second
Screen capture1,345 pictures in 69 seconds
Draft render1,344 frames at 720p, about 2 seconds each
4K renderAbout 30 seconds a frame in tests, roughly 11 hours in all on one Mac
SoftwareBlender 5.2, Chrome, ffmpeg, ElevenLabs for sound
Hand modellingNone. Every object is made by a script.

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