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One-prompt 3D short film of a floating island town
OPUS 5.5 MADE THIS 3D SHORT FILM FROM ONE PROMPT. NO SKILLS, NO REMOTION, NO TEMPLATES a prompt went around reddit this week, 1,666 upvotes: give opus a mascot and ask for a one-minute 3D film. "think of crazy ideas i would never come up with" i gave it the floating island from my game skyhold what it did in 21 minutes, from an empty folder: > modeled the island, houses, trees, a waterfall and hot-air balloons in three.js > wrote its own story: a bare island, a town grows, dusk falls, the whole town lights up > lit it from day to night with its own glow and colour pass > 60 seconds, every frame drawn by code i changed two things: a render hook so i could record it frame by frame, and no sounds pulled from the web. the music is code too the prompt, word for word, is in the first reply
— 0xbobaa (@0xbobaaa) Oct 28, 2026
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Make a one-minute video about Skyhold's floating island (image attached). Recreate the island from the image and animate it yourself. Build everything from scratch: no skills, no Remotion, no templates. Render 3D objects: the island, houses, roads, balloons, clouds, whatever fits, and make it as good as you can. I don't want any text, just animation, and I mean a real video, not just motion graphics. Think of crazy ideas I would never come up with, and make every scene look phenomenal: clean and detailed. I want people to watch it and think "yo, this is crazy, how did AI make this?" Invent your own stuff. Don't create slop, I want to see art and creativity.
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- Films & stories
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- Three.js, Web Audio
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- Three.js
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- Video made in 21 minutes; about an hour to record 1,800 frames.
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