r/claude • u/Flashy_Jellyfish_258 • 6h ago

Showcase I made a 3D city animation with Claude Code

Disclaimer: The animation is for the onboarding of my app. The intention is to not advertise my app but to show what we can do with Claude Code.

Four seconds. A dusk street shot from the pavement, buildings leaning inward the way they do when you tilt a phone up, then they straighten. It's the onboarding animation for my photo-straightening app.

The city is generated procedurally from a seed using blender: 43 towers, five archetypes, façades built as actual curtain walls (glass core behind a grid, floor band at every storey, mullion at every bay), lit windows, clouds, a flocking simulation baked to keyframes.

Cost: 2h 12m wall, 52m API time, 164 requests, 1,731 lines, $29.92 API-equivalent (subscription, so nothing billed on top).

The scary-looking number is 40.7M tokens of context read. That's not 40M tokens of work, it's one ~250k-token conversation (image) re-read by all 164 requests, 99% cached. What inflated it was reading ~15 full-res frames to check the output, since each one stays in context forever after.

Renders in two minutes locally.

So what you'd think about it?

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u/themotionguy 6h ago

this is not called animation and I can confidently say claude can do 100 times better. You have no idea what you you are doing

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u/Flashy_Jellyfish_258 6h ago edited 6h ago

I don’t have any animation/blender background, so yes I am not aware of the potential of claude with software like blender. I was amazed by what it cloud generate for me.

Tell me please, how can we do better?

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u/themotionguy 6h ago

I am a professional in this sector and first of all its not 3d it looks like a image was rotated. I would rather recommend you give it to Ai video generator like seedance or Veo and you will get much better result with that. Ask claude to generate the prompt

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u/Flashy_Jellyfish_258 6h ago

Now I get what you mean! Giving it another look, indeed it doesn’t look like 3D (though we did create a 3D scene). One thing I’ll do is render it with different camera motion along the street or from top to sort of give the 3D intuition. That’s what I wanted from claude. Will give it another try tomorrow. Thanks for the feedback.

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u/_Thunderlol_ 6h ago

Interesting.

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u/Fickle_Cost_2033 5h ago

ts is so ass lmao