Short story film with Claude

The workflow behind "The Last Drive Home": a 20-second film about an old family car on a snowy night. It starts, drives past a school and a hospital, parks at the house, the engine turns off and the porch light comes on. No people on screen. 6 shots, 2.39:1 widescreen, 600 frames at 30 fps. Every script in scripts/ was actually run for that film, in order.

Rules for Claude

• Storyboard first. Every shot gets its camera move, timing and sound before anything is built.
• Find a real model, don't build one: the car is a free CC BY model, trees, lamp, hydrant, fence, textures and sky are Poly Haven (CC0). Claude builds the simple things in Python: road, snow banks, school, hospital, house.
• Write your own code, read anything you download, ask before any long render.
• Never render inside the live Blender window (it crashes). Render in background Blender from a saved .blend.

0. Setup and the live bridge