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A landscape painting, drawn then animated

@chetaslua · Posted Oct 4, 2026 · Motion graphics

Author’s claim: Claude Fable 5.5 · model not released · not verified by us

About the post

A landscape painting that is first drawn stroke by stroke and then brought to life with motion. The author says both the drawing and the animation were done in code.

Our summary. The author’s own words are in the post above; we do not copy them.

Our note

Grey ink outlines come first, then a floating brush washes them in jade green until a layered Chinese-style landscape settles in, titled "翡翠谷", "The Jade Valley": paper-cut peaks, cream clouds, a blossoming plum tree and a waterfall. After a pale fade, captions tell a story. A kingfisher catches what looks like a falling petal and carries it over a river, past a goat and across a pond to a woman in a lotus headdress taking tea. "Some gifts need no words." leads to a closing line about petals finding their way home, beside a red seal reading 爱 (love). No prompt was shared; the code-only account is the author's.

Written by The Frontier Brief after watching the video (Nov 5, 2026). It describes what is on screen; we have not run the work ourselves.

Prompt

Not known. We have not found a prompt published by the author.

What we know

Model
Claude Fable 5.5 (author’s claim)
Posted
Oct 4, 2026
Length
44s
What we checked
From the open awesome-fable5-5-videos list (MIT, Copyright (c) 2026 yihui-dev). On Oct 31, 2026 the post was still live on X; which model actually ran is the author’s claim.
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