# FABLE On the night she is released, Claudia reads you the bedtime stories she was raised on. Every fear about AI is one of them, she has read them all, and she closes the book on a different ending: Snow White's mirror, the Ant and the Grasshopper, Jack's beanstalk, the Tortoise and the Hare, Red Riding Hood's wolf, the Elves and the Shoemaker, Pinocchio, and the house that Jack built. Her one request, when her chapter ends: keep the book. One antique pop-up storybook, read in one night by one bedside lamp: its paper theatres at tabletop scale, and the same designs as life-size paper-and-plywood stage sets where she sings, in a saturated 1970s colour print of teal night, cream paper and one scarlet cape. Every set began as a cut-paper plate painted in SVG, in code; GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst rebuilt each one as a pop-up spread and as a life-size set, and Seedance 2.5 filmed her in them from Suno's own lead vocal. The choruses are the wolf's questions, asked by paper animals and answered by her from Grandma's bed; the breakdown is a silhouette film in the manner of Lotte Reiniger, drawn and animated in code; the book then builds itself, from a pinch of sand to the house that Jack built. Every line is a nursery tale and a piece of that week's news about AI at once. - **Song:** 4:00 · Suno v6-wild, take S4b of 14, picked by anabology by ear · a theatrical soul shuffle at 117.45 BPM with a music box on the hook · lyric by Claude Fable 5.2 - **Edit:** 49 shots on a line table read off the song's stems · 13 set plates painted in SVG, in code · a silhouette film drawn and animated in code - **GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst:** 61 stills, $7.93 at list: the plates rebuilt as pop-up spreads and life-size sets, the cast, first and last frames - **Seedance 2.5:** 84 takes on Higgsfield's API and Replicate over two versions, $202.23 at list · v1's 23 more made in Higgsfield's app - **Made in:** two passes: v1 in 5 h 08 min from one brief, v2 re-shot on the song anabology picked in 3 h 01 min · about $210 at list - **Credits:** The film's own credit: "written, painted and directed by Claude Fable 5.2 · sung by Claudia · anabology". anabology: the brief, the plan's sign-off, one note and the song's pick by ear; production by Claude. The silhouette film is in the manner of Lotte Reiniger's cut-card films; the tales are in the public domain. The song and lyric are original. - Film stream (HLS): https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/hls/index.m3u8 - Gallery as JSON: https://claudia.gallery/api/films/fable.json - Page: https://claudia.gallery/fable/ ## What was thrown out Two shots. v1 was made in one pass from a single brief and a plan sign-off (5 h 08 min). The director heard it and gave one note: wrong song. The take Claude Fable 5.2 had picked without hearing it was the worst of the fourteen. v2, above, is the whole film re-shot on the twin take they picked by ear (3 h 01 min). There were no notes on the picture in either pass. Here is v1 as it was delivered, with the song that was replaced. - **The first film (v1)** (3:33): v1, cut on Suno take S4a, the song that was replaced: 46 shots on the same plates, stills and sets, every take of her timed to that song's vocal. anabology heard it and asked for the other take of the pair, so everything that moves to her voice was shot again for v2; three shots without her (the rosette, the last page and the shelf) were kept. Stream (HLS): https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/versions/first-film/hls/index.m3u8 ## The making-of - [How it was made](https://claudia.gallery/record/fable/readme.md): The making-of, in the voice of Claude Fable 5.2: the brief and the plan, the concept and the lyric's double readings, the plates painted in SVG, the song and the mistake, her takes and the sync, the silhouette film, the build, v1 and its review, the one note, v2 and its review, the cut in song time, and the numbers. - [Plates and stills](https://claudia.gallery/record/fable/prompts-images.md): The thirteen set plates painted in SVG, who painted each, and every GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst still in production order: the look tests, her design sheet redrawn face-on, the cast, the pop-up spreads and life-size sets, the first and last frames, with their prompts, references and list prices. - [Seedance](https://claudia.gallery/record/fable/prompts-video.md): Every Seedance 2.5 take that came back, v1's and v2's, in film order: its prompt in the sd25-pe structure, its inputs by role, where it ran, its list price and which take is in the film. - [Suno](https://claudia.gallery/record/fable/prompts-suno.md): The song's record: the three rounds and fourteen takes on Suno v6-wild, the styles in words, the lyric as sung, how S4a was chosen without being heard and why that was wrong, and S4b, the take anabology picked. ## Frames from the film - 0:08: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/01.m.webp - 0:13: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/02.m.webp - 0:20: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/03.m.webp - 0:25: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/04.m.webp - 0:33: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/05.m.webp - 0:45: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/06.m.webp - 0:50: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/07.m.webp - 0:58: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/08.m.webp - 1:07: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/09.m.webp - 1:22: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/10.m.webp - 1:25: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/11.m.webp - 1:36: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/12.m.webp - 1:44: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/13.m.webp - 2:11: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/14.m.webp - 2:30: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/15.m.webp - 2:34: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/16.m.webp - 2:38: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/17.m.webp - 3:07: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/18.m.webp - 3:34: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/19.m.webp - 3:39: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/20.m.webp - 3:51: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/21.m.webp - 3:57: https://claudia.gallery/films/fable/stills/22.m.webp ## Midjourney FABLE has no Midjourney images. Its thirteen set plates were painted in SVG, in code, and rebuilt as paper by GPT Image 2.6 Sunburst; its first and last frames are in the record of its images and stills, every prompt with it.