Claude Code Made This Anime — Episode 4: The Arrow (One Tip Broke Everything)

Can Claude Code make videos? Episode 4 of our free AI anime — and the episode that almost didn't happen: a popular internet tip silently destroyed every face in the film. The honest post-mortem is in the making-of. Wren and Thorne take the east road toward Ravenhollow — but they are not traveling alone. An ambush in the woods, a demand for the medallion, one arrow that changes everything, and a gate that finally opens. ⚙️ WHAT WE CHANGED (AND BROKE) THIS EPISODE Upgrade 1 worked: the whole episode runs on our own 8-bit model build (converted from the original weights — the common 4-bit download is what melts faces). Upgrade 2 broke everything: we added a full character description to every prompt. Official docs say: with image-to-video, never describe what the image already shows. Five different faces later, we re-rendered the entire episode overnight. New rule, written in stone: test before trust. 🔧 THE FULL SETUP (all free, runs on one Mac) 1. Claude Code — writes, renders, cuts, investigates its own mistakes 2. LTX 2.3 (local, our q8 build) — image-to-video, cfg 3.0, 30 steps, motion-only prompts 3. Higgsfield nano banana — start images lock look & identity 4. ElevenLabs — narrator + my voice clone 5. ffmpeg — assembly, driven by Claude Code 🐞 HONESTY CORNER: Fast action still needs many attempts, thin objects still flicker. Spot the remaining glitches — comments below. 💬 Your tips go straight into the next episode — but from now on, we TEST them first. That's the lesson of Episode 4. Episode 1:    • Claude Code Made This Anime Film — 100% Fr...   Episode 2:    • Claude Code Made an Anime Fight — Episode ...   Episode 3:    • Claude Code Made This Anime — Episode 3: W...   LTX settings deep-dive:    • LTX 2.3 Tested on One Mac — Honest Results...   #claudecode #aianime #ltxvideo #aivideo #aifilmmaking #localai