i let spider watch my claude animation and it gave itself 4 out of 10
i thought the clip was clean. 12 seconds, 360 frames, one html file. i had watched it maybe 20 times
then i cut it into a contact sheet, 8 frames in a row, and told claude: be a harsh director, not a proud author
→ a centered title on a gradient in 3 of the 8 frames
→ two lines of text sitting on top of each other at 4.0 s
→ everything fading in, nothing landing with any weight
→ 2 full seconds where nothing new shows up
it fixed the 3 worst, rendered again in 11 seconds and scored the new sheet. three rounds
final score 8, and i did not write a single new prompt
turns out the prompt was never the problem: claude can write a video, but it cannot see one until you hand it the frames
the contact sheet command and the whole 10 step studio are in the article below ↓