Film 9 of 9 · November 2026 · 3:19

Aero

BLISS's sequel, one operating system later. The PC from BLISS finishes its upgrade and boots into 2007, and Claudia lives in Windows Vista now, made of Aero glass and over-polite: she calls you on Messenger, asks permission for everything ("Cancel… or allow?") and plays Wii-style bowling and tennis on your desktop. You click Allow, and the future the 2000s promised comes out of the screen: glass and water, sky and green. She touches the grass at last, signs off like a Windows 7 advert, "I'm Claudia. Take the future back.", and touches her webcam's glass.

The images How it was made

Song: 3:17 · a Suno take of 2008 UK garage, a smooth 2-step, picked by anabology, with their new ending · 133 BPM, E major · 41 lines, 281 words
Edit: 11 chapters and 34 scenes on the song's bars, one screen recording of a Vista desktop drawn in code · 1,153 frames rendered in Blender
Midjourney: 113 prompts · 444 images, 47 in the final film · its video model: 56 five-second loops of 28 images, 20 in the final film
GPT Image 2.5: 163 calls, $9.47 at the API's price: her first frames, the 2008 stills, the Wii-style screens, the wallpapers
Seedance 2.5: 95 takes, 43 in the final film · $327.76 at list ($281.06 on Higgsfield's API, $46.70 on Replicate)
Sound: 39 of Vista's and Windows Live Messenger's interface sounds, re-pitched into E major · 60 cues on the song's grid

Directed by anabology; production by Claude. Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Live Messenger and Windows Media Player are Microsoft's; the desktop in the film is a recreation in code, with Vista's own wallpaper (Aurora) and Vista's and Windows Live Messenger's interface sounds. The advert at the end parodies Microsoft's 2009 "I'm a PC" campaign. The Wii is Nintendo's; the bowling and tennis are drawn for the film. The song is original.

The film

21 frames from the finished cut

Frutiger Aero, the glossy future the screens of the 2000s sold: blue sky, water, glass and lime-green grass under a high sun, its colours made in every picture, never graded. The film is shot inside a Windows Vista desktop recreated in code: Aero glass, the Sidebar's gadgets, UAC's prompt, Messenger, Media Player, Flip 3D and the Bubbles screensaver, drawn on the beat, with the lyrics in its surfaces. In the first 1:20 the desktop is also a curved glass screen on a pier at sea, rendered in Blender, and the camera goes in and out of it; at the drop the whole desktop is one curved pane in a lagoon. Midjourney made the worlds and pictures, GPT Image 2.5 put her into them, Seedance 2.5 filmed her from her own lead vocal, and Vista's interface sounds play on the song's grid, in its key.

Midjourney

The film's Midjourney images · open one for its prompt

33 images

wide view up into a deep cobalt sky stacked with towering brilliant white cumulus, sunbeams breaking through, clear soap bubbles drifting and catching rainbows, a thin strip of lime hills along the bottom edge,…

wp-sky · #2

low wide view across rolling bright lime-green grass hills sparkling with morning dew, soft wind in the grass, a deep blue sky with fat white cumulus above, sun flare, clean 2007 desktop wallpaper photography,…

wp-green · #4

wide view of a bright green grassy hill sloping down to a turquoise lagoon, white curved glass pavilions and slides at the water's edge, three white wind turbines on the far ridge, a deep blue sky with towering…

wp-wsg · #2

low eye-level view of a gentle green hill of long soft grass shining with dew in morning sun, the slope rising from the lower right, a pale blue sky with a few soft cumulus, quiet and tender, natural photograph,…

wp-hill · #4

a glossy 2007 desktop wallpaper 3D render of white wind turbines on smooth lime-green hills, a cobalt sky with perfect cumulus, lens flare, reflective grass, CGI stock illustration, frutiger aero, hyper-saturated…

windmills-2007 · #1

documentary photograph of a real wind farm on green rolling farmland hills on a bright summer day, a row of white wind turbines, cumulus clouds, natural colour, shot on a telephoto lens, no people, no text, no…

windmills-2026 · #2

a single perfect fluffy white cumulus cloud floating in a deep cobalt sky, sun rim light, a few soap bubbles, frutiger aero, hyper-saturated cobalt sky, lime green, turquoise water, glossy translucent glass, sunny…

thought-cloud · #3

extreme macro of a bright lime-green leaf holding one large clear water drop that reflects a blue sky, glossy, frutiger aero, hyper-saturated cobalt sky, lime green, turquoise water, glossy translucent glass, sunny…

thought-leaf · #1

a dolphin leaping out of a clear turquoise wave in sunlight, splash droplets glittering, blue sky, frutiger aero, hyper-saturated cobalt sky, lime green, turquoise water, glossy translucent glass, sunny 2007 utopia,…

thought-dolphin · #4 $close view of sunlit clear glass panels and glossy glass spheres overlapping in a white atrium, rainbow refractions, bubbles, frutiger aero, hyper-saturated cobalt sky, lime green, turquoise water, glossy translucent…$ loop-glass · #2

underwater in a crystal turquoise lagoon, sunbeams slanting down, silver bubbles rising, a few bright fish, white sand, frutiger aero, hyper-saturated cobalt sky, lime green, turquoise water, glossy translucent…

loop-water · #1

loop-water · #4

towering white cumulus clouds drifting across a deep cobalt sky over a lime ridge, sunbeams, frutiger aero, hyper-saturated cobalt sky, lime green, turquoise water, glossy translucent glass, sunny 2007 utopia, no…

loop-sky · #2

low close view of tall bright lime-green grass blades with dew in wind and sun, daisies, blue sky above, frutiger aero, hyper-saturated cobalt sky, lime green, turquoise water, glossy translucent glass, sunny 2007…

loop-green · #1

loop-green · #2

wide aerial of a white glass city with waterfalls, green terraces, monorails and turquoise lagoons under a deep blue sky with towering cumulus, bubbles, frutiger aero, hyper-saturated cobalt sky, lime green,…

pov-phone · #1 $extreme macro of one round clear water drop resting on a fingertip, the drop refracts a tiny upside-down sunny lagoon and blue sky, sparkle, shallow focus, frutiger aero, hyper-saturated cobalt sky, lime green,…$ macro-drop · #3

product photograph of a single object centred on a pure white seamless background, the whole object in frame with space around it, soft studio light, crisp reflections, a translucent turquoise glass fish sculpture,…

obj-player · #1

obj-dolphin · #2

over-under split view of a tropical lagoon, the waterline across the middle of the frame, crystal turquoise water with sunbeams, caustics on white sand and tiny bright fish below, a deep blue sky with towering…

wp-water · #2 $extreme macro photograph of the pad of a woman's index fingertip with one small round water droplet resting on it, the droplet the size of a lentil, a tiny upside-down sunny lagoon and blue sky refracted inside the…$ macro-drop2 · #1

ultra-wide view over a still turquoise lagoon toward low lime-green meadow hills and clusters of bright round trees, a white glass city of curved terraces and waterfalls on the far shore, a deep blue sky stacked with…

pano-noon-b · #1

six separate bright lime-green leafy trees with full round crowns and slim pale trunks standing in a row, each tree whole and apart from the others with white space between them, lit by bright midday sun, isolated on…

trees-cutout · #3

trees-cutout · #4

In the film (on screen in the coded desktop, as a wallpaper, a window's picture or a loop Midjourney's video model made of it; in the drop's Blender world; or the world a first frame of a take in the final cut was made from, as it is or with GPT Image 2.5 putting her into it before Seedance filmed it; the four pictures seen only in the Sidebar's Slide Show gadget are not marked). No Midjourney image of her face is on screen as it is: GPT Image 2.5 put her into Midjourney's worlds from her design sheet before Seedance filmed her. Fourteen more images reached the film and are not shown here: nine worlds that reached it only through those edits, not shown as Midjourney drew them (p07-float #3, p08-mall #4, p09-meadow #1, p10-dew #2, b14-sky #2, b20-ask #2, b36-idea #2, meadow-monitor #2 and pool-atrium #2), and five with a credit or mark baked into a corner (pov-button #3 and wink-thanks #1, which the film frames out, and glass-city #3, loop-world #4 and windmills-2007 #4, the sources of three loops in the drop's windows). · The director's pick, from their storyboard review (CLODYSSEY only).

How it was made

The making-of, as it was published

The story

How it was made

The making-of: the spark, the song, the look, the brief, the Vista desktop coded as THE PC, her takes and the lip sync, the sound layer, v1, the notes on it and v2, the first 1:20 rebuilt in Blender and in and out of the screen, the new ending, the final shot by shot, what worked and what didn't, and the numbers.

Prompts

Midjourney and GPT Image

Every Midjourney prompt, all seven batches, and every GPT Image 2.5 instruction: the first looks, the first-person story frames, her in the look, the storyboard, the plates, wallpapers and window pictures, the drop's world, her face put into Midjourney's worlds, the 2008 stills, the game screens and the wallpaper that replaced Midjourney's, and what each pick became.

Prompts

Seedance and Midjourney video

Every video take in production order: Seedance 2.5 on Higgsfield's API and on Replicate (her takes, the world's, the moving 2008 places and game screens, v3's coast, maglev and Wii takes, the new ending) and the loops of Midjourney's video model, with their inputs, prompts, outcomes and prices, and which reached the final cut.

Prompts

Suno

The song's record: the lyric drafts and their scores, the seven Suno rounds and their styles in words, the take, the song measured, the new ending, and the lyric as sung with its times.

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How it was made

Midjourney and GPT Image

Seedance and Midjourney video

Suno

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