HEYGEN VIDEO 1.0 + CLAUDE CODE = AN INSANE VIDEO STUDIO THAT LIVES IN YOUR TERMINAL
I made an entire anime short with it
the prompts, the renders and the final cut, all from one window
> a tiny train skimming a shallow sea at sunset
> a cottage walking off on wooden legs
> a red seaplane touching down in a hidden cove
and
@HeyGen returns every shot with its own sound from the same call:
> wind through grass
> bacon sizzling
> rain tapping an umbrella
• my run, in numbers
> 58 shots rendered, all 58 came back
> about 15 seconds for a typical shot
> 16 anime shots in 67 seconds, 8 running at once
• two tricks worth stealing
> chain shots off the last frame: sketch -> paint -> alive
> one picture -> the same clay creature in anime and in a real café
Claude Code wrote every prompt in HeyGen's structured format
and built the motion design around the clips
one person with a terminal can now make the kind of short that used to take a whole animation team
which scene would you type first?