The fastest-growing Shorts on YouTube are made by one guy and 12 free repos.

The fastest-growing Shorts on YouTube are made by one guy and 12 free repos. Clay planets. Tiny Rome. Domino spirals. “You vs a blue whale.” You’ve scrolled past hundreds of them this month. There’s no studio and no animator behind them, just Opus 5.5 running the whole process. 1 person → 4 channels → 48 Shorts a day Each one starts from a single prompt. Here’s the entire pipeline, idea → upload: RESEARCH → Exa MCP: shows what’s blowing up in your niche this week → yt-dlp: pulls top Shorts + transcripts so Opus learns what holds viewers SCRIPT → Claude Skills: hooks, 40-sec scripts and titles tuned for retention 3D → Blender MCP: Opus builds and animates every scene through code → Hunyuan3D-2: one image in, finished 3D prop out → Blender: renders a full Short in about a minute, even on an old GPU VOICE → Kokoro: natural voiceover, runs on your own PC, zero API cost → WhisperX: captions synced to every word MUSIC → MusicGen: a new track generated for every Short…