Show HN: A Pipeline for Making 10-minute AI Movies with Claude Code and Seedance

dawndrain 17 points 4 comments July 20, 2026
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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.

Discussion Highlights (3 comments)

dawndrain

In addition to the repo I have a long blog post reflecting on my experience here, including war stories, more detailed costs, and bloopers https://dawndrain.notion.site/Making-AI-Movies-39cbb81dad798...

gulugawa

Its going to cost a lot more than $200 once LLM subsidies run out.

retel

appreciate the pipeline. it's interesting to read the steps, see the outcome, and know about the costs/time.

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