From Mammoth Motors to Cinematic Canvas

Today’s frontier models can do some pretty incredible things with animation. My first real dose of it was the axial-flux motor. I prompted Fable’s Mythos to make a The Way Things Work version of Mercedes-Benz’s new large-scale-production motor. If you would rather skip straight to the machinery, the interactive Cinematic Canvas demos are here. You can play with the demonstration here, and the source is on GitHub. I also shared it on Hacker News. The Time Machine Later, with some subscription quota tokens to burn, I got it in my head that Contextify needed an animation. The documentation page boldly offers to bring your AI coding history Back to the Future. Naturally, Doc Brown’s DeLorean Time Machine would take off from those words. The prompt was not simply to make it fly. I wanted it to go “into the page, but in an arc.” The camera would sit roughly 45 degrees up and to the side. That turned into a little flight lab with controls for ignition, hover, pitch, wobble, placement, flames…