Anthropic: research told in ASCII typography
A silent 60-second Anthropic research film that dissolves an oil-painted seascape into dense ASCII type, builds bridges and clouds out of repeated words and numbers, and closes on the Anthropic wordmark.
By Anthropic
A prompt to start from
Paste it into Clueso or any MCP client to recreate this video. The link to it comes with the copy.
Create a silent, atmospheric video approximately 30–60 seconds long that opens on a desaturated, painterly oil-painting-style seascape featuring tall sailing ships on choppy ocean waves beneath a dramatic cloudy sky and distant mountains. Slowly transition the lower half of the frame to a white background while the painting dissolves, revealing dense typographic ASCII-art compositions: repeated words — "CLOUDS," "BOAT," "OCEAN" — arranged in monospaced black text to form the silhouettes of clouds, a sailing ship, and ocean waves. Use a muted, aged colour palette throughout, ending on a black footer strip.
How it’s put together
One frame per shot, with what is said over it.
0:03A muted oil painting of tall sailing ships on choppy water under heavy cloud.
0:12The scene is redrawn in monospaced type, with the words "CLOUDS", "BOAT" and "OCEAN" forming the sky, ship and sea.
0:22A pink panel shows the expression (4 + 17) * 2 + 7 beside a wall of repeated "42".
0:32A suspension bridge drawn entirely out of small black characters on white.
0:42A soft mass of tiny words forms a cloud-like shape filling the frame.
0:57The Anthropic wordmark sits over pale clouds at the end.
Make one like this
Take the prompt into Clueso and change whatever you need.