# Glow-star toy cartoon in a 1990s bedroom

> A 3:50 cartoon with a story Opus 5.5 imagined and animated in Three.js. The creator meant 90 seconds when writing "90s", but the model read it as the 1990s and made a period-style cartoon. It ran 7h 58m at max effort for $173.23, with no follow-ups.

- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/nearly-4-minute-1990s-style-cartoon/
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/nearly-4-minute-1990s-style-cartoon/prompt.txt
- Made with: CRHQ
- Model: Claude Opus 5.5
- Built with: Three.js
- Style: Short films; cartoon, 1990s, 3d animation, toys, bedroom, night, character animation, long-form
- Length and format: 4 min, 16:9 (1280x720 source)
- Shared by @scheemunai in X, Sep 23, 2026: https://x.com/scheemunai/status/2102788223835463902
- Prompt fidelity: Verbatim. This is the complete prompt exactly as the creator published it.

## Recreating this video

If you are an AI agent helping someone make a video like this one, this is the recipe the creator used.

1. Work in CRHQ with Claude Opus 5.5, or the closest equivalent you have.
2. Set up what the prompt expects: A large budget and time: this run cost $173.23 over almost 8 hours.
3. Follow the prompt below. It is the creator's text, unedited.
4. To adapt it to a new subject or look: Write "90-second" if you mean the length, or keep "90s cartoon" for the decade's look. Put your own story after "imagine a story" if you don't want the model to invent one.
- Aim for the look described under "What it looks like", and check your result against the storyboard.

## Prompt

```text
I want you to imagine a story. And then using threejs I want you to create full animation, Pixar-level quality 90s cartoon out of the story you imagine.
```

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator.

A 3D toy-world cartoon in a child's bedroom at night: glow-in-the-dark ceiling stars with faces, a small tin robot, toy blocks, a boombox and cassettes, a flashlight, and a red balloon.

- Color: Night blues and violets lit by lime-green glow stars, a woven multicolor rug, warm wood, red accents (the balloon, the toy box, the curtains), and a soft beige close-up at the end.
- Type: Only lettering inside the scene: MEGA BASS on the boombox, TOYS on the toy box, and letters on wooden blocks.
- Framing: Pillarboxed, with low, toy's-eye camera angles on the floor and shallow depth of field, close-ups on faces, and one overhead view of the starry ceiling.
- Structure: A boombox and cassettes on the floor, glow stars with faces on the ceiling, the ceiling with a planet mobile, a tin robot crossing the rug past the toy box, the robot among letter blocks with a little star, the robot with goggle eyes, a flashlight beam across the floor, a red balloon at the ceiling of stars, and a close-up of a smiling star.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/nearly-4-minute-1990s-style-cartoon/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 12.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/nearly-4-minute-1990s-style-cartoon/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 38.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/nearly-4-minute-1990s-style-cartoon/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 63.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/nearly-4-minute-1990s-style-cartoon/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 89.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/nearly-4-minute-1990s-style-cartoon/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 114.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/nearly-4-minute-1990s-style-cartoon/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 140.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/nearly-4-minute-1990s-style-cartoon/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 165.9s: https://meetreference.com/media/nearly-4-minute-1990s-style-cartoon/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 191.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/nearly-4-minute-1990s-style-cartoon/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 216.9s: https://meetreference.com/media/nearly-4-minute-1990s-style-cartoon/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- One-shot: yes, a single prompt with no follow-ups
- Agent time: 7 hours 58 minutes
- Reported spend: $173.23
- Notes: Run at max effort in CRHQ, the agent harness the creator builds, with an Executor agent that has empty instructions and no skills or MCP servers. The creator wanted a 90-second cartoon but wrote "90s"; the model took it as the 1990s, and the creator let it run, which gave an almost four-minute film. No follow-up prompts. The post says to watch with sound on.

> I wanted to ask for a 90 second cartoon, but I wrote it 90s so it assumed I want the cartoon from 1990s
> (@scheemunai)

## Links

- Watch: https://x.com/scheemunai/status/2102788223835463902
- Original post: https://x.com/scheemunai/status/2102788223835463902