Hi everyone! I had to share my latest project. I am so proud of it and hope you enjoy it! Thanks to @Jake Van Clief and his crew for creating the community. I feel like nothing is impossible to create. I had Claude code write the next part: I gave Claude one sentence. Two days later it was a 9.5 minute animated film. My idea was one line: "a child's room where different art styles are used." What came out is "The paper plane": a 9 minute 31 second animated film with 25 art styles, 8 narrator voices and an original soundtrack. Not one image or video generator was used. Every frame is drawn in code. Here is how it came together, and why ICM is the reason it worked. THE IDEA I had a folder of 84 reference art styles (sumi-e ink, claymation, film noir, Win95, synthwave and so on) and one picture in my head: a child's room where every object is a door into another style. The camera dives into the TV and you are inside a video game. The poster on the wall turns out to be a whole world. One style draws an arcade machine, and inside it the next style is already playing. THE BRAINSTORM Claude ran a structured brainstorm with me (the superpowers brainstorming skill): one question at a time, and a quick mockup of the room so I could see the camera route. Out of that came four "hand-off moves" that join one style to the next: - Dive in: through a screen into its world. - Drawn doorway: my arcade idea. - Pull back out: the world was the poster on the wall all along. - Carried thread: something crosses the seam from one style to the next. Then Claude pitched me three stories: 1. The paper plane: a plane that flies from style to style. 2. The bedtime question: a child asks something, and the room answers. 3. How pictures learned to move: from shadow puppets to 3D games. I loved all three and could not pick one. So I asked Claude to weave them into one story, and to drop the 2 to 3 minute limit we had planned, because a great story needs time to play out.

This is the website I created for them — pikolhaus.com. Small start, but officially my first real client project. More to come.

I built a front door to my ICMs because I was tired of hunting through chats to find my own work. One place to see what each project is for, when to use it, its recorded status, and the next step. The work stays in its existing project. Untested skills stay separate until I test them. For now, it’s navigation and instructions, not an autonomous launcher. The goal is less remembering where everything lives and more actually using it. Clear steps. Less blah blah blah. Just show and tell. 😊

Hi everyone! I just wanted to share that my website for my ebook and audiobook is finally live and done! It has been sitting on the back burner for a few months and now I finally set time of to finish it! I am really happy with it and it is created using ICM and Claude code. https://www.thewheelofclarity.com/

Behind the behind, episode 3: Ghosts in the machine The third episode of the mini-series about what I learned building Behind the paper plane, made by the same workspace. 4 minutes 52 seconds. Watch it on LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/p/e6kxD-tY Episode 2, The AI checks its own art, on LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/p/eJwQzvzd Episode 1, Thirteen messages: https://youtu.be/C2POk9nGRxE Behind the paper plane on LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/p/eaYD2G-x Why the LinkedIn links: I hope you will like the posts and share them, to help me spread my name out there. You never know who sees it. THE IDEA Machines make strange mistakes. Not the mistakes a person makes. A person does not hear "Thank you." in four seconds of silence. A machine did, twice, in two films. So in my system, the checks do not trust the machine. They trust three things: the script, every frame, and a person watching at the end. THE GHOSTS IN THE SOUND - Every film is spoken first. Then Whisper, a program that listens, writes down each word and the moment it was said. The pictures are timed to those moments. - In The paper plane, after the last line of one act, there was only silence. Whisper wrote "Thank you." - Behind the paper plane told that story. Later the same day, another part of that film ended on "That is how they grew." Four seconds of silence, and Whisper wrote "Thank you." again. A second program listened to the same silence and heard it too. Two machines agreed. The script did not. - That is the check: every word heard is held against the script. A word the script does not have is a ghost, and it comes out. - Ghosts like silence, so the silence is kept from them. When a part opens with seven quiet seconds, Whisper never hears them. The words are moved seven seconds on instead. - Numbers are let through on purpose, because a year reads better as digits. So the number ghosts walked straight in: "twenty to eight" became the year 2028, and in episode 1, "seven twenty" was written as 7.20. Both were caught one step later, where every written word is read before any picture is timed to it.