Photoreal 3D pelican riding a bicycle, driven from Claude Code
Make a video of a 3D pelican riding a bicycle, as realistic as you can make it: believable anatomy and feathers, a real bicycle with working drivetrain motion, physically plausible riding animation, real-world lighting and camera. Take the time it needs. Deliver a finished video file.
- What it is:
- A photoreal short of a 3D pelican riding a bicycle. Fable 5.2 drove Blender 5.2.3 headlessly from Claude Code, writing about 4,800 lines of Python for a 21-bone rig, feathers and a drivetrain that actually turns, and Cycles OptiX rendered the 444 frames on an RTX 5080 in 56 minutes (technical details in the author's reply, x.com/techfren/status/2119926681716834440).
- Clip:
- Video, 18 s. About 163K views and 910 likes as of 11 November 2026.
- Note:
- The prompt comes from the full session trace the author published as a Hugging Face dataset; a block of runtime-environment constraints that follows it is not included here. The author also posted a "receipts" post: x.com/techfren/status/2120203574483550694.
- Prompt source:
- https://huggingface.co/datasets/techfren/pelican-fable-trace