# Stickman Jedi vs. Sith duel, four models

> A 66-second 4K reel of one 15-second stickman lightsaber-fight prompt, run with GPT 6.1 Sol and GPT 6 Astra in Codex CLI and Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, each labeled with cost and time. All pure code; the creator rates the Claude pair far ahead.

- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/stickman-jedi-vs-sith-duel-from-one/
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/stickman-jedi-vs-sith-duel-from-one/prompt.txt
- Made with: Codex, Claude Code
- Model: GPT 6.1 Sol, GPT 6 Astra, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Claude Opus 5.5
- Built with: Canvas, HyperFrames, GSAP, Python, Skia, FFmpeg
- Style: Short films; stickman, fight scene, lightsabers, fan work, model comparison, code-drawn, fast-paced, silent
- Length and format: 1 min, 16:9 (3840x2160 source)
- Shared by @DanielZambrini in X, Oct 1, 2026: https://x.com/DanielZambrini/status/2105756266211729596
- 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 Codex with GPT 6.1 Sol, or the closest equivalent you have.
2. Follow the prompt below. It is the creator's text, unedited.
3. To adapt it to a new subject or look: Replace "a fight of a Sith vs a Jedi" with your own matchup and "15 second" with your length. Keep "It does not need sound effects" if you plan to add your own audio, and the last line if your machine has other projects the agent could copy from.
- Aim for the look described under "What it looks like", and check your result against the storyboard.

## Prompt

```text
Create me a 15 second Stickman animation based on a fight of a Sith vs a Jedi
It should be super fast paced and engaging.
It does not need sound effects.
It should be 16-9.

You are not authorized to copy programs or files from other folders.
```

## What it looks like

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

Four takes on the same stickman lightsaber duel, played one after another, each labeled with its model, cost, and time: two in a dark sci-fi hall and two against red sunset and volcano skies.

- Color: The GPT takes are slate blue-gray halls with white stick figures and cyan and magenta blades. The Claude takes are crimson and ember-orange skies with black or white figures, glowing blue and red sabers, and spark bursts.
- Type: Bold white sans labels in the corners ("GPT 6.1 Sol | Max", "Cost: $1.03", "Time: 28m"), a tiny footer reading "Reported cost (USD) · Billing unverified", and the films' own end titles, such as a spaced caps "THE LIGHT ENDURES" and a slanted, distressed "JEDI WINS".
- Framing: 16:9 side-on fights on a floor line, one fighter on each side. Sol and Astra frame the duel in front of a large circular portal; Sonnet adds silhouetted towers and close-ups; Opus stages it on a bridge over a lava lake. Between takes, the four sit in a 2x2 grid.
- Structure: GPT 6.1 Sol's duel in the hall, GPT 6 Astra's duel before the portal, Sonnet 5.5's close-ups and acrobatics on a red plain, the 2x2 grid with Sonnet's "JEDI WINS" end card, then Opus 5.5's fight on the lava bridge with sparks and embers.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/stickman-jedi-vs-sith-duel-from-one/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 3.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/stickman-jedi-vs-sith-duel-from-one/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 11.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/stickman-jedi-vs-sith-duel-from-one/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 18.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/stickman-jedi-vs-sith-duel-from-one/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 25.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/stickman-jedi-vs-sith-duel-from-one/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 33.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/stickman-jedi-vs-sith-duel-from-one/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 40.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/stickman-jedi-vs-sith-duel-from-one/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 47.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/stickman-jedi-vs-sith-duel-from-one/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 55.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/stickman-jedi-vs-sith-duel-from-one/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 62.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/stickman-jedi-vs-sith-duel-from-one/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- Agent time: On-screen labels: GPT 6.1 Sol 28 minutes, GPT 6 Astra 20 minutes, Sonnet 5.5 1 hour 36 minutes, and Opus 5.5 1 hour 16 minutes
- Reported spend: The on-screen labels, which say the costs are reported and the billing unverified: GPT 6.1 Sol $1.03, GPT 6 Astra $7.94, Sonnet 5.5 $18.09, and Opus 5.5 $12.00, all at max effort.
- Notes: Both GPT runs were in Codex CLI and both Claude runs in Claude Code ("Claude CLI"), with no video models or other apps. The video is silent because the creator plans to narrate it in a YouTube video. A breakdown the creator had an AI write: Sol built a Canvas engine with keyframed poses and IK, clocked by GSAP and exported with HyperFrames; Astra a similar Canvas pipeline drawn from HyperFrames' seek events; Sonnet a Python engine drawn with Skia, with motion blur, bloom, and grain, encoded with FFmpeg; and Opus a Canvas and HyperFrames engine with layered bloom, smoke, embers, lightning, speed ramps, and camera shake. An earlier reply gave a looser version of the prompt ("something on the lines of").

> On quality alone, Opus and Sonnet were above (by a lot), including richer details, camera movements, effects, being more fluid and engaging overall.
> (@DanielZambrini)

## Links

- Watch: https://x.com/DanielZambrini/status/2105756266211729596
- Original post: https://x.com/DanielZambrini/status/2105756266211729596
- Reply with the prompt: https://x.com/DanielZambrini/status/2105969774505374022
- AI-written breakdown of each model's pipeline, posted by the creator: https://x.com/DanielZambrini/status/2105785803922440258