20-second motion design short about Opus delegating tasks to Haiku

GOAL: You're directing a 20-second animated short about the Claude Haiku 5.5 release. MOTION: You're the director, the art department, the animator, the sound designer and the QA team, and you have real tools to call. I'm giving you the idea, the tools and the quality bar. Everything else, from the beats to the look to the jokes, is yours to design. I trust your taste more than a beat sheet I could write. Your capabilities are far beyond what you assume, so work like it: plan carefully, push the craft, and use the tools and the time this deserves. Spend generously where it improves the film and economically everywhere else. Final output: `out/level3.mp4`, 1920×1080, 30fps, exactly 20.0 seconds, with voices, music and sound design. At the end, you'll also save your process as a reusable skill. --- ## 1. The idea **Opus is overloaded with work it shouldn't be doing.** It's buried in small, repetitive tasks: summaries, classifications, lookups, compactions. Then it has a realization: it can hand all of that to Haiku. It calls Haiku, Haiku arrives fast and clears the pile, and Opus is finally free to do the hard, important work it's built for. That's the premise. How you tell it is up to you: the staging, gags, rhythm, camera, character beats, what the eureka moment looks like, how Haiku arrives, and how the delegation plays out. Sonnet can appear if it earns its place. **Fixed points:** - 20.0 seconds, 16:9. - Opus and Haiku are characters in the same family as the Claude character. - The film must read with the sound off. - The ending respects reality: Haiku takes the volume, and Opus keeps the hard thinking. Anthropic says Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 remain the better choice for complex agentic coding, so Haiku is never shown replacing Opus.