Midnight Run
A 1980s anime-style title sequence: neon city, rain, and film grain. Stills come from a local image model, and all the motion is code: camera pans, parallax, and animating on twos.
SDXL (local) · HTML canvas · Playwright · ffmpegVideo experiments, made with code, local models, and free tools.
How these are made
A 1980s anime-style title sequence: neon city, rain, and film grain. Stills come from a local image model, and all the motion is code: camera pans, parallax, and animating on twos.
SDXL (local) · HTML canvas · Playwright · ffmpegA quiet 90s slice-of-life opening in 4:3, with street lamps timed to a railway-crossing bell. The audio is synthesized from scratch in Python.
SDXL (local) · HTML canvas · numpy audioAn 81-second narrated explainer in an evidence-board collage style: a real 1906 front page, red string, a live seismograph strip, and a typed log of real USGS earthquake data.
D3 · public-domain archives · Kokoro TTS · ffmpegThe same brief rendered in six web engines to compare looks: cel shading, glossy PBR, keyframed cameras, GPU particles, and code-driven motion graphics. Every frame is rendered deterministically.
Babylon.js · PlayCanvas · Theatre.js · PixiJS · Motion Canvas · RemotionA vintage travel-poster launch video for my Southern California startup directory, drawn entirely in code.
HTML canvas · Playwright · ffmpeg