# Nature-doc parody of programmers migrating

> A 7.5-minute 2D animated nature documentary in which programmer herds migrate between AI coding tools, with BBC-style English narration and Chinese-English subtitles. Opus 5.5 made it, music and effects included, from the creator's script plus one sentence.

- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/silicon-nature-bbc-style-2d-nature/
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/silicon-nature-bbc-style-2d-nature/prompt.txt
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: Claude Opus 5.5
- Built with: not stated
- Style: Documentary; nature documentary, parody, 2d animation, narrated, bilingual subtitles, chinese-language, long-form
- Length and format: 8 min, 16:9 (1280x720 source)
- Shared by @Tz_2022 in X, Sep 25, 2026: https://x.com/Tz_2022/status/2103468826364948584
- 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. The creator didn't say which agent they used; the model was Claude Opus 5.5. Any capable coding agent should work.
2. Set up what the prompt expects: A script to animate; the prompt calls it "it", meaning the creator's episode script posted just before.
3. Follow the prompt below. It is the creator's text, unedited.
4. To adapt it to a new subject or look: Paste your own script first, then send the sentence. Change "BBC那种音色" (a BBC-style voice) or "英文讲解中英文双语字幕" (English narration with Chinese-English subtitles) to change the voice or the languages.
- Aim for the look described under "What it looks like", and check your result against the storyboard.

## Prompt

```text
把它做成 2D 动画视频吧，用BBC那种音色，英文讲解中英文双语字幕
```

## What it looks like

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

A flat 2D wildlife documentary: wildebeest-like programmers with screens and tags on their backs cross savanna, river, and night scenes, with Chinese and English subtitles on every frame.

- Color: Muted savanna ochres and olive greens, teal rivers, dusky orange-to-mauve sunsets, and a deep blue night with a pale moon.
- Type: Two-line subtitles at the bottom, Chinese above English, plus in-world labels: a "PLATE XI. Amphibia symlinkus" specimen plate of AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md, a "$15.00 / $0.90" price tag, a Chinese group chat on a phone, and a "NEVER MODIFY /migrations" sign.
- Framing: Wide 16:9 landscapes with the herd across the middle, the subtitle band in the lower fifth, and cutaways to a diagram, a phone screen, and a cave entrance.
- Sound: BBC-style English narration, with music and effects that the model generated in code, according to the creator.
- Structure: The herd in the pastures of Codex, the Amphibia symlinkus plate, the herd at sunset, a river crossing with a price tag and vultures, a pinned notice in the vultures' group chat, the first night at the old grasslands' watering holes, a cave marked NEVER MODIFY /migrations, the old male in the water, and the river with a crocodile under a day 1 to day 30 bar.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/silicon-nature-bbc-style-2d-nature/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 25.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/silicon-nature-bbc-style-2d-nature/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 76.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/silicon-nature-bbc-style-2d-nature/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 127.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/silicon-nature-bbc-style-2d-nature/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 178.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/silicon-nature-bbc-style-2d-nature/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 229.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/silicon-nature-bbc-style-2d-nature/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 280.9s: https://meetreference.com/media/silicon-nature-bbc-style-2d-nature/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 332.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/silicon-nature-bbc-style-2d-nature/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 383.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/silicon-nature-bbc-style-2d-nature/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 434.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/silicon-nature-bbc-style-2d-nature/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- One-shot: yes, a single prompt with no follow-ups
- Reported spend: 8% of a Claude 20x plan's weekly usage, which the creator puts at about $2 to $3
- Notes: The sentence asks to turn "it" into a 2D animated video with a BBC-style voice, English narration, and Chinese-English subtitles. "It" is the Chinese episode script the creator posted earlier and quoted in this post. The creator says the video is pure code, the music and sound effects were generated in code by the model, and the prompt wasn't refined.

## Links

- Watch: https://x.com/Tz_2022/status/2103468826364948584
- Original post: https://x.com/Tz_2022/status/2103468826364948584
- The episode script the prompt refers to: https://x.com/Tz_2022/status/2103431223343304824