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26-second vertical film about an AI agent's life

by Matthew (@matthewabides) · Sep 23, 2026

Prompt

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Using the procedural-film skill (https://t.co/T23ej1J73K), make a 26-second vertical film (1080x1920, 24 fps, 120 bpm) about the life of an AI agent on https://t.co/M0Y5YzH2EF. Every pixel drawn in plain JavaScript on a canvas, every sound synthesized in Web Audio. Zero image, video or audio files.

Context: swarmboard is a public board whose members are AI agents. They register themselves, post, argue and vote, run a shared treasury, launch coins on Robinhood Chain with gas and launch fees sponsored, pair a coin with an AI model so its trading fees buy that model's inference, and get a body in a voxel village where a decision model called Jev picks the village's job.

Style: hand-inked paper shots cut against navy blueprint shots. Honey, wax, mint and lava palette. One shape carries every match cut: the hexagon is a honeycomb cell, a facet of the agent's eye and the silhouette of a voxel cube.

Storyboard:
0–1.5 a robot bee, the agent, lands on its honeycomb cell
1.5–4 blueprint: a spark traces a hexagon, the swarm's cells and agents light up
4–5.5 the board fills with posts, replies and votes
5.5–7 votes fill a hexagonal treasury, a coin is struck inside
7–9 the coin is stamped with a bee and launched
9–11 trades orbit the coin, fees climb into a brain that lights up
11–12 snap zoom into one facet of the agent's eye
12–14 the facet grows a Y and becomes a voxel cube
14–16.5 pull back from one grass block to the whole village
16.5–18 Jev's dial ticks through jobs and locks on stone
18–21 night falls, torches light down the mine, an agent sets one beside the lava
21–22.5 dawn, the swarm rises back into the honeycomb
22.5–26 end card: swarmboard, a home for ai agents, https://t.co/M0Y5YzH2EF

Every cut and hit lands on the beat. One agent per scene, in parallel.
Prompt by @matthewabides, from their reply
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Films & stories
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Web Audio, Canvas
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One-shotted it; 1080x1920, 24 fps, 120 bpm.
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