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by Sanji Nai-Chien · 2,378 words · 370 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

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0:00Look at this channel. Now, over the last
0:0230 days alone, this channel has pulled
0:04in over 200 million views and an
0:06estimated 40 K in ad revenue. And every
0:09bit of that hype comes down to viral 3D
0:11shorts just like these ones on your
0:13screen. Except this specific video isn't
0:16actually his. It's mine. And I built
0:19this exact video completely inside of
0:21Claude in under 10 minutes. No Blender,
0:24no After Effects, and not a single key
0:27frame was touched by hand. So in this
0:29video, I'll show [music] you everything.
0:31What worked, what completely broke, and
0:33the exact step by step workflow to
0:35generate identical shorts that can
0:37[music] clear five figures a month.
0:39Plus, I'm dropping the full Claude skill
0:42for free. As always, the link is down
0:44below in the description. So without
0:46further ado, let's get right into it.
0:53Let's look at the actual channel that
0:54we're breaking down today. So the first
0:56thing that hits you right away is the
0:58view count. Now look at these numbers.
1:0020 million views on one short, 14
1:03million on another, 8 million views, and
1:06all of that happened in a single week.
1:08[music] And now here's the interesting
1:10part, the actual money. Now in US heavy
1:13niches, shorts RPM, in other words, how
1:15much you get paid for 1,000 views
1:17usually bounces somewhere between 12 and
1:1932 [music] cents. So if we take a fairly
1:21conservative average of 20 cents, then
1:24200 million views in the last 30 days
1:26works out to around $40,000 from YouTube
1:29ad revenue alone. Now this is the
1:31closest thing to a money glitch that
1:33I've ever seen. It's not easy money, but
1:36it's never been [music] this doable
1:38because you don't need an entire
1:40production studio anymore. You simply
1:42need to replicate what I'm showing you
1:44today. So to build this whole pipeline,
1:46you literally only need two tools. First
1:49is Claude. Claude is going to write the
1:51script, build the entire 3D world with
1:53code, and put the whole video together.
1:57And second is Higgsfield. Higgsfield
1:59will generate everything needs visual
2:01design, the characters, the textures,
2:03the 3D objects, and the voiceovers.
2:06There's no blender, no after effects,
2:08and no hiring a $3,000 animator. That's
2:11it.
2:17Now before we make our first video, we
2:19do a quick one-time setup. It takes
2:21literally 2 minutes and then you never
2:24[music] have to do it again. So step one
2:26is to connect Hicksfield to Claude.
2:28You're going to want to go to the
2:29Hicksfield site, click [music] to the
2:30MCP page, copy the Hicksfield connector
2:33link, open Claude, then go to settings,
2:36paste the link into connectors and hit
2:39connect. What that does is it allows
2:41Claude to talk directly to Hicksfield's
2:43generation engine. [music] And step two
2:45is to install my custom channel skill.
2:48So you're going to want to download the
2:49skill file from the description, open
2:51Claude, click customize, click [music]
2:53add skill, and simply upload it. Now the
2:57skill already contains the channel's
2:59entire visual DNA, the exact styling
3:02rules, the visual references, the camera
3:04math, and the base scene code. You set
3:07this up one time and that's literally
3:09it. Now from this point on, making a
3:12brand new video just takes one single
3:14prompt with the topic of your choice.
3:16[music]
3:17That's why the actual creation here
3:18takes under 10 minutes.
3:25Now how do you get Claude to copy a
3:27viral channel style down to the exact
3:29pixel? We have Claude download the last
3:3220 shorts of this channel, which is
3:34about 32,000 frames of reference. And
3:36here's the number one mistake that
3:37people make. They tell Claude analyze
3:40these videos and tell me what the style
3:42is. [music] Now Claude is going to look
3:43at two random screenshots, write a
3:45couple of generic paragraphs about
3:47cartoony animations, and simply output
3:50garbage. Instead, you tell Claude
3:52analyze all 30 frames per second across
3:5432,000 frames, measure the lighting
3:57angles, the shadow color values, the
3:59camera drift speed, and the cut timing.
4:02Now pro tip, never ask an AI what it
4:05thinks about a video. You want to make
4:07sure that it can actually measure the
4:08data. You can't replicate an opinion,
4:11but you can replicate exact numbers.
4:14What Claude did is it condensed those
4:1532,000 frames into 549 reference sheets,
4:19one for every single key moment across
4:22all 20 shorts. And from those exact
4:24sheets, it built us a definitive rule
4:27book.
4:27First, the character rule. The
4:29characters are completely flat 2D
4:32cutouts, but they live inside of real 3D
4:35space. Real light hits them and they can
4:37cast real shadows onto the ground.
4:40Second [music] is the line rule. Every
4:42single object and character has to have
4:45a bold black comic outline. Third is the
4:48color rule. Things like warm sunlight,
4:51deep navy blue shadows, and never ever
4:54pure black. What pure black does is it
4:56ruins that cartoon look that we need.
4:59Fourth is the camera rule. There's
5:01almost zero hard cuts. The camera is
5:04continuously gliding towards the next
5:06point of interest.
5:12Now, here's where it gets interesting,
5:14the script. Claude looks at the best
5:16performing topics on this channel and it
5:18generates new ideas that the channel
5:20actually hasn't covered yet. And before
5:22it writes a single line, Claude will
5:24actually fact check everything. Because
5:26if your historical fact is wrong, then
5:29people are going to roast you in the
5:30comments and then your retention drops.
5:32Every viral script on this channel
5:34follows an identical four-part formula.
5:37Part one, the opening line is always a
5:40paradox. There's no intro, nothing like
5:42hey guys. Ultimately, no fluff. It's
5:45just a bizarre statement that makes you
5:48stop scrolling. Part two is rapid
5:51tension buildup. You don't just state
5:53the fact, you quickly stack two or three
5:56escalating details on top that make the
5:58situation sound crazy or impossible.
6:01Part three is the pivot. Every single
6:03video uses this exact phrase. You see?
6:07[music] Now the moment that the narrator
6:09says you see, the tension breaks and the
6:11explanation begins. If you listen to 10
6:14of their videos in a row, you'll see
6:16that every single one uses that exact
6:18phrase like clockwork. Part four, the
6:21final twist at the very last second. Now
6:24just when the viewer thinks that they
6:25understand the story, you hit them with
6:28one last surprising outcome right before
6:31the video loops. The pacing is strictly
6:33forwards per second with zero pauses
6:35between sentences.
6:42Now for the characters, and this is
6:44where HeyGen comes into the picture. But
6:46here's the thing. Most people try to
6:48copy this style, but they output pure
6:51trash. Their videos look like cheap
6:53stock clip [music] art slapped on top of
6:55a random image. The characters don't fit
6:58into the background. They simply float
7:00mid-air and they look completely dead.
7:02So to fix that, our custom skill already
7:05covers the character design. I just go
7:07into Claude and I type using the channel
7:09skill, generate our main character in
7:11the exact comic proportions. And through
7:13the connector, HeyGen will generate it
7:15right inside of the chat. And then I
7:17need to ask Claude, now generate an
7:19emotion sheet for this character. One
7:21head with six different facial
7:23expressions, happy, nervous, shocked,
7:26shouting, and confused. HeyGen will
7:28automatically strip the background
7:30clean. Third, I'll tell Claude, take
7:32this cut out, slice the character in
7:34separate layers, things like head, body,
7:36arms, and legs, and rig it right into a
7:39digital puppet. [music] And just like
7:41that, the character becomes a puppet
7:43controlled entirely by code. That code
7:46will actually create micro movements,
7:48things like subtle breathing, slight
7:51shoulder bobs, and little eye twitches.
7:54And that's what makes the character feel
7:55alive instead of [music] frozen. Now
7:58here's the twist. When we first rendered
8:00our character, it looked completely
8:02broken. The head was like 40% too small
8:05and the legs were bending backwards like
8:07a broken folding chair. We realized that
8:09our early prompt assumption was totally
8:11wrong. We assumed that the character had
8:13a realistic anatomy, but the original
8:16channel uses a 1 to 2 ratio. The head is
8:19almost as big as the entire torso. So
8:22once we fed that exact ratio into
8:24Claude, the character instantly matched
8:26the original.
8:32Now we need the world around our
8:34characters. There's actually three
8:36visual layers to this scene, and the
8:37third layer is the real secret sauce. So
8:40layer one is stylized texture. I'm going
8:43to ask Claude to generate comic-style
8:45hand-painted textures for wood planks,
8:48stone walls, roof shingles, and dirt
8:50paths using Hixfield. We don't use flat
8:53colors because these stylized painted
8:55textures are what make the final video
8:57look like a high-budget production.
8:59Layer two is hero objects. So for big
9:02assets like a wooden windmill or a horse
9:05cart, I'm going to need to tell Claude
9:06to generate a 3D model of a windmill and
9:09of a horse [music] cart. Hixfield can
9:11create lightweight 3D assets directly
9:13from the prompt, and Claude will place
9:15that 3D model right [music] into our
9:17code scene.
9:18Layer three is the secret. It's the
9:21background depth. The sky and the
9:23distant mountains don't need a complex
9:26geometry. We generate them as flat 2D
9:28images inside of Hixfield and then apply
9:31a soft blur in the background of the
9:33video. [music] For tiny background props
9:35like crates and barrels, don't waste
9:38time generating images because I'll just
9:40tell Claude to write basic 3D cube
9:42primitives with code [music]
9:44in a matter of seconds.
9:48[music]
9:50Next up, sound. I ask Claude to generate
9:53the voiceover using our Hixfield
9:55voiceover clone. We want something
9:57energetic, fast-paced, and punchy.
9:59[music]
10:00When you export the voiceover, always
10:02check the audio language. Last week,
10:04YouTube automatically served me a German
10:06dub for testing, [music]
10:07which honestly feels like classic
10:09YouTube.
10:10Make sure that your output settings are
10:12locked to US English. [music] Then we
10:14generate our background track, minimal
10:16cartoon pizzicato strings that build
10:18that tension without overpowering the
10:21voice behind it. Once the voice track is
10:23ready, Claude will actually listen to
10:25the waveform and automatically tag the
10:27exact millisecond [music] timestamps for
10:29every single word in the script, and
10:31every visual action is synced directly
10:34to that speech.
10:40Now Claude builds the entire scene
10:42inside [music] of code. I'll give Claude
10:45one assembly request, build the full 3D
10:48scene in code. [music] And literally
10:50from just that single line, Claude will
10:53set up the entire virtual 3D stage,
10:55place the camera, position the lighting,
10:58and drop our 2D character puppets and 3D
11:01objects into the scene. The camera never
11:03does any jerking or snapping. It uses an
11:06ease-in ease-out curve for roughly 0.8
11:10seconds, gliding forward like it's on a
11:12real studio dolly track. And here's
11:14another pro tip. You always want to have
11:16Claude run a stop frame check before you
11:19hit full render. And on our first big
11:21render, we wasted literally 20 minutes
11:24because the virtual camera was placed
11:25inside of the wall of a house, and all
11:28that we rendered was a gray brick
11:29texture for 30 seconds. You want to run
11:32a quick three-frame snapshot, check the
11:34first, grab the bugs, catch them, and
11:37then render the full 60 frames.
11:44Now we put our rendered test [music]
11:46right next to the original channel's
11:48video. And at first, something felt
11:50completely off. We asked Claude to
11:52compare both frames using numbers and
11:55not human eyes. Claude measured the
11:57contrast and shadow depth, and two
12:00massive bugs came up. First, our shadows
12:02were completely wrong. Our character
12:04looked like he was floating 2 in off the
12:06dirt road. The original channel has this
12:08dark soft contact shadow right under the
12:11boots, what 3D artists ambient
12:14occlusion. So the character is pinned to
12:16the ground. And second, the agents broke
12:18our scene file. We were running 12
12:21Claude sub agents at the same time to
12:23speed up the work. But because three of
12:25them were editing the exact same scene
12:27code at the exact same second, they
12:29ended up overwriting each other's
12:30coordinates and half of the buildings
12:32ended up vanishing. So here's another
12:35tip. When running multiple AI agents,
12:38separate their file permissions. One
12:40agent is going to handle the lighting
12:42code, one is going to handle camera
12:43movements, and a third handles asset
12:46loading. You never want to let them
12:47touch the same code block at the same
12:49time. Now, once we fixed the file
12:51structure and added the contact shadow
12:53under the boots, we re-rendered the
12:55scene and just look at the result. Now,
12:57side by side with the original, the
12:59textures, outlines, and lighting all
13:02match up almost identically.
13:09Here's where the actual money glitch
13:11happens. Building this first video took
13:14testing, debugging, [music]
13:15and building assets. But your
13:17characters, your hand-drawn textures,
13:19[music] and your 3D props are now a
13:22permanent asset library. In other words,
13:24you only have to generate them one time.
13:27For your second, fifth, and 20th video,
13:29you never need to rebuild your world.
13:31You simply give Claude a brand new
13:33script and it'll grab the existing
13:35medieval village, place the characters,
13:37change the camera path, and render a
13:39finished video in under 10 minutes. You
13:42can so easily schedule two to three high
13:46retention shorts every single day
13:48without ever touching animation
13:50software. I looked literally everywhere
13:52online to see if anyone was teaching
13:54this, and I found exactly two tutorials.
13:57Now, one guy out there was selling
13:58access to this exact style, but for $67
14:01a month inside of a paid group, and
14:04another course was charging $97 for a
14:06PDF with literally two basic prompts
14:09that don't even work. Now, my entire
14:12work flow, the complete Claude skill,
14:14and our database of over 5,000 style
14:17references are completely free in the
14:19description below. And I'll always keep
14:22updating that skill as new models drop.
14:24And the best part, [music] you can use
14:25this exact code and prompt framework to
14:27clone literally any visual style on
14:30YouTube. [music]
14:31So grab the skill in the description,
14:33subscribe so that you don't miss the
14:34next breakdown, [music]
14:35and I'll see you guys in the next one.

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