One logic to rule them each.
In a city where every robot runs on one simple rule, the smallest and oldest of them finds out it accidentally caused the drought that is killing the last grove of trees. A lie would save it. The truth is the only way to save its friend and the trees.
"Do things, but do not cause harm to anyone or hurt anyone knowingly."
That is the Tiny Robot's one logic, pressed into an old brass plate on its brow. It also knows that trees and plants are living things, so it will not hurt them either. In Gridhaven, a city of robots built for speed, wins and applause, that makes it slow, careful and, most robots say, obsolete. Before every step it stops, looks left, looks right, and says: "Check... no harm. Go."
Each rule is good in some situations and harmful in others. The story tests every one of them.
Can a studio-quality animated film be made with Blender and Claude, with no manual modelling, texturing or animation, on a budget closer to a $100 Claude plan than a studio's? We don't know yet. Worth a shot. Every prompt, file, render and cost is public.
Claude wrote a 33-minute script in 31 scenes from a one-paragraph brief, then edited it as a script editor would.
Claude designed each robot as a parts list; Blender builds it by script; Claude reviews the renders and fixes the designs.
Generated photo textures turned into seamless PBR sets: worn paint, chips, scratches, rust streaks, brass, glass.
A short reel that introduces the cast, in a first corner of Gridhaven.
Gridhaven's block towers and the Old Grove, built the same way.
Shots, staging, voices and music, then the film.
Open movie. The code is MIT licensed and the film content (script, designs, textures, renders) is CC BY 4.0. Read the production diary, run the pipeline, remix the robots.
github.com/Thinkelution/the-tiny-robot
The Tiny Robot