Short Film · Oct 14, 2026
No video generator: Claude Code animated Steve Jobs's D8 story frame by frame in code
No video generator: Claude Code animated Steve Jobs's D8 story frame by frame in code by ibsix_com. Watch the short film video, explore the shared prompt and…
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I run a small Apple-inspired apparel shop, IBSIX (I Bleed In Six Colors). Our name comes from a story Steve Jobs told at D8 in 2010 about the people who stayed at Apple in 1997. When he asked them why, they said: "Because I bleed in six colors." I wanted to turn that into a short film, so I built it with Claude Code and Chase's animate skill (https://github.com/cth9191/animate). No AI image or video generator. Every character and scene is drawn in code. How it came together: \- The skill walks you through story, look, and storyboard check-ins before anything gets animated. \- The look came from references I gave it: two Steve character illustrations and an iMac G3 sticker. Claude built a new flat style from those, then drew Steve, the offices, and the iMac in code. \- The real stuff is placed in, not generated: the BusinessWeek and Wired "Pray." covers, the Infinite Loop sign and building photos, the six-color logo artwork, and our actual Macintosh 40 Years print file on the…
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I wanted to turn that into a short film, so I built it with Claude Code and Chase's animate skill (https://github.com/cth9191/animate). No AI image or video generator. Every character and scene is drawn in code. How it came together: \- The skill walks you through story, look, and storyboard check-ins before anything gets animated. \- The look came from references I gave it: two Steve character illustrations and an iMac G3 sticker. Claude built a new flat style from those, then drew Steve, the offices, and the iMac in code. \- The real stuff is placed in, not generated: the BusinessWeek and Wired
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