H3 GalleryShort films, taken apart.
Each film was generated in 5 to 15 second shots and cut together. Open one to see the final film, the reference pictures that keep its characters and places consistent, and every shot with the exact prompt that made it.
Directed and made by Claude Code (Claude Opus 5.5): from story and storyboard to references, shots, edit and subtitles, following the directing workflow.
Kong Yiji
7:01 · 32 shots · 16:9
Late-Qing China, the Xianheng Tavern. Kong Yiji, a failed scholar in a filthy long gown, is the butt of every joke, until one winter day a weak voice calls from below the counter. Lu Xun's 1919 classic, retold as a hand-drawn-style anime short through the memories of the tavern's twelve-year-old waiter.
The Wedding Cake
3:53 · 22 shots · 16:9
A tiny felt baker's helper has one job: get a three-tier wedding cake up the hill to the chapel before noon. Between him and the church stand a cake-loving terrier, a revolving door, a very long ladder, a hungry goat and a bicycle with no brakes. A silent slapstick comedy in handmade felt-and-clay stop-motion style.
The Lightning Fisherman
1:22 · 9 shots · 9:16
A man nails an iron spike to his roof and warns the town. They ring church bells against lightning instead, in a tower full of gunpowder. A fable inspired by the 1769 Brescia disaster, when lightning struck the Church of San Nazaro and its gunpowder store destroyed about a sixth of the city. The inventor is fictional.