# Origami doodle story from humanity to AI

> A 108-second wordless origami-and-doodle animation that follows humanity from its birth to the hatching of AI and finally Opus 5.5 itself. It took two prompts and three hours at max effort, in pure JavaScript with no image or video generation.

- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/origami-doodle-story-humanity-from-birth/
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/origami-doodle-story-humanity-from-birth/prompt.txt
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: Claude Opus 5.5
- Built with: Plain JavaScript
- Style: Illustrated; doodle, origami, paper craft, wordless, cute, warm, history
- Length and format: 2 min, 16:9 (1920x1080 source)
- Shared by @songkeys in X, Sep 23, 2026: https://x.com/songkeys/status/2102743212922384673
- Prompt fidelity: Partial. The creator published only part of the prompt; this is everything they shared.

## 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. The creator didn't say which agent they used; the model was Claude Opus 5.5. Any capable coding agent should work.
2. Follow the prompt below. It is the creator's text, unedited.
3. To adapt it to a new subject or look: Swap the arc ("humanity’s development, progress, and civilization from birth to the present, and ultimately the hatching of AI") for your own story, and keep the list after "Style:", especially "no spoken language".
- Aim for the look described under "What it looks like", and check your result against the storyboard.

## Prompt

```text
Create a short origami / doodle-style animation showing humanity’s development, progress, and civilization from birth to the present, and ultimately the hatching of AI. AI then gradually develops and advances, eventually hatching today’s Opus 5.5 (you). Style: doodly, cute, warm, strongly narrative, no spoken language (simple text is OK, but don’t use too much explanatory/narrative text, because I want different civilizations to be able to understand it), poetic, moving, high quality.
```

## What it looks like

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

A soft paper storybook: small doodled people in muted colors at a campfire, a farm, a railway, and the Moon, then around a glowing paper egg that hatches a small orange creature, ending on a notebook page.

- Color: Muted pastels with a paper grain: sage green, dusty blue, cream, and terracotta, with night scenes in deep navy lit by warm firelight and the egg's white glow.
- Type: No text in the frames.
- Framing: 16:9 wide scenes with small figures on a low horizon or curved ground, generous sky, and one glowing focal point near the center (the fire, the egg, the Earth).
- Structure: A crayon-textured Earth among stars, people around a campfire under the moon, a farm with a thatched hut and a cart, a train on a bridge under floating geometry sketches beside a telescope, an astronaut and rocket on the Moon with Earth above, people with lamps and phones around a large glowing egg, the egg cracked open to show a small orange creature, a burst of paper pieces over the crowd, then an open notebook with a small orange handprint and a pencil.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/origami-doodle-story-humanity-from-birth/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 6.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/origami-doodle-story-humanity-from-birth/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 18.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/origami-doodle-story-humanity-from-birth/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 30.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/origami-doodle-story-humanity-from-birth/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 42.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/origami-doodle-story-humanity-from-birth/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 54.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/origami-doodle-story-humanity-from-birth/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 66.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/origami-doodle-story-humanity-from-birth/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 78.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/origami-doodle-story-humanity-from-birth/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 90.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/origami-doodle-story-humanity-from-birth/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 102.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/origami-doodle-story-humanity-from-birth/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- One-shot: no
- Agent time: About 3 hours
- Reported spend: About 130M tokens at max effort, which the creator puts at roughly $60 at API prices
- Notes: Two prompts. After the first turn, Claude showed draft scenes and the creator replied with modification suggestions, which aren't published. The creator thinks it could one-shot with clear instructions in the first prompt.

> Pure Javascript! No video/image generation at all.
> (@songkeys)

## Links

- Watch: https://x.com/songkeys/status/2102743212922384673
- Original post: https://x.com/songkeys/status/2102743212922384673
- The reply with the prompt: https://x.com/songkeys/status/2102995593111163246