A Pipeline for Making 10-minute AI Movies with Claude Code and Seedance
I've been working on this Claude Code pipeline for making 10-minute movies, gluing together Seedance (videogen), Nano Banana (image gen), and ElevenLabs (voice gen), and using Claude as the director. My repo contributes a markdown playbook and a worked example which should make it easier for other people to make their own short movies. A first-pass movie takes around 2.5 hours of wall clock time and costs around $200, and iterating is easy thanks to intermediate artifacts like storyboards and voice samples.
A Pipeline for Making 10-minute AI Movies with Claude Code and Seedance launched on July 20, 2026 with 21 votes, #854 of 24,623 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.
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A pipeline that orchestrates multiple AI tools—Seedance for video, Nano Banana for images, and ElevenLabs for voice—with Claude directing the creative process to generate 10-minute movies. The system produces a first draft in approximately 2.5 hours for around $200, with intermediate artifacts like storyboards and voice samples enabling easy iteration. The repository includes a markdown playbook and worked example to help others create their own short films using this modular approach.
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A pipeline for making short movies using Claude Code - dawndrain/movie-gen
A working pipeline for making short films (5–12 minutes, dozens of shots, consistent characters and voices) with Seedance 2.0 (video), Nano Banana Pro (images), Sonilo (music) — all three via Higgsfield's CLI — plus ElevenLabs (voices), Gemini (audio/image QC), and a lot of ffmpeg. About ten films have been made this way; the first complete one, The Long Game (an 11-minute comedy, ~80 shots, ~15 iteration passes), lives in long_game/ as the worked example. A taste of the output: The Long Game's cast, voices, and start frames , the storyboard , the voice auditions — and the finished film . Two more finished films: Homo Sapien (the music video) and Walter's Deal . There's also a blog post…from github.com
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