Claude Fable 5.2 vs Opus 5.5 Make an Animated Video From Scratch — Transcript

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1. 0:00I gave two Claude models the exact same
2. 0:02prompt. Here's a voiceover. Make a 2D
3. 0:05animated short from it, [music] written
4. 0:06entirely in code. Go all out, be
5. 0:09extremely creative and choose the visual
6. 0:11style yourself. One is Opus 5.5. The
7. 0:15other is Fable 5.2. [music]
8. 0:17Pick the one you like more, left or
9. 0:18right. I'll tell you which model made
10. 0:20which at the end. In 1453,
11. 0:2370 warships crossed a hill
12. 0:26on land in one [music] night.
13. 0:28Constantinople had the strongest walls
14. 0:30in the world and across its harbor, a
15. 0:33giant iron chain that [music] no fleet
16. 0:35could break.
17. 0:36The young sultan's answer? If his ships
18. 0:38can't go through the water, they'll go
19. 0:40over the land.
20. 0:42In one night, [music]
21. 0:43his men build a road of greased logs
22. 0:45over the hill
23. 0:46and 70 warships start to climb oxen
24. 0:49pull.
25. 0:50Thousands of men push, drums [music]
26. 0:52beat. The ships rise over the hilltop
27. 0:54with their sails up as if the wind were
28. 0:57carrying them across the land.
29. 0:59Then they slide down into the harbor
30. 1:02behind the chain.
31. 1:03At dawn, the defenders look out from the
32. 1:05walls and see an enemy fleet where no
33. 1:08ship could possibly be.
34. 1:10So the answer? The one on the left was
35. 1:13Opus 5.5. The one on the right was Fable
36. 1:165.2.
37. 1:18So what did you pick? Keep it in mind.
38. 1:20Here's how those were made. The
39. 1:21voiceover was a 49-second story. No
40. 1:24skill, no reference, no help, [music]
41. 1:27just that one prompt. And I ran both
42. 1:29models at the same time, side by side.
43. 1:31Now the price. At API prices, Opus cost
44. 1:34about $6.50. Fable cost about 13.
45. 1:37[music]
46. 1:38Fable 5.2 is twice as expensive per
47. 1:41token, so the same [music] film cost
48. 1:43twice as much. I used my Claude plan, so
49. 1:45I didn't pay that directly. But if
50. 1:47you're on the API, it adds up. [music]
51. 1:49Here's the first surprise. I never
52. 1:51mentioned a style. Neither model saw the
53. 1:53other and both chose the same thing, an
54. 1:56Ottoman miniature painting [music]
55. 1:57brought to life. Same story, same
56. 2:00choice. So, the difference is all in the
57. 2:01execution.
58. 2:03They took screenshots [music] of their
59. 2:04film, spotted what was wrong, and fixed
60. 2:07it before I ever saw it. Opus noticed
61. 2:09its ships [music] disappeared against
62. 2:10the night hill, and that its music was
63. 2:12drowning out my voice. Fable rebuilt its
64. 2:14[music] ships, the chain, and the whole
65. 2:16dawn scene. Let's look at the moments
66. 2:18that matter. The hook, 70 warships cross
67. 2:21the hill. Opus counts the ships up to 70
68. 2:24and marches them over a rising hill.
69. 2:26Fable writes the year in ink over the
70. 2:28moon. [music]
71. 2:29Then the camera drops to ships already
72. 2:31crossing. The chain, both draw the
73. 2:33harbor from above and forge the chain
74. 2:35link by link. [music] Both have ships
75. 2:37ram it and bounce off. Oxen pull,
76. 2:40thousands of men push, drums beat. Opus
77. 2:42slams in three [music] framed panels,
78. 2:45one per phrase with drum hits on the
79. 2:47voice. Fable cuts to a mare to drummer
80. 2:49beating on the beat. The climb, [music]
81. 2:51this is the hardest shot. Opus puts ship
82. 2:54silhouettes against a giant moon, sails
83. 2:56filling with wind. Fable makes the
84. 2:58ground swell like a wave so the ships
85. 3:01look like they're sailing on land. And
86. 3:03one more difference, the one I didn't
87. 3:05expect. [music]
88. 3:05My project has a rule, never render
89. 3:07before I've watched it. Opus rendered
90. 3:09anyway because my prompt asked for an
91. 3:11MP4. Fable stopped, opened a live
92. 3:14preview, and waited for my notes.
93. 3:16Neither is wrong, but one followed the
94. 3:18message [music] and the other followed
95. 3:19the rules of the project. If you work
96. 3:22with Claude every day, that matters more
97. 3:24than any single frame. [music]
98. 3:26Now imagine what they could do with a
99. 3:27skill that already knows your style.
100. 3:29That's the next video, and I'm giving my
101. 3:312D skill away for free. Subscribe so you
102. 3:33don't [music] miss it.