Centered white serif text reading SHÉ above the Chinese character 蛇 — AI video by @justrob
@justrob · 7/13/2026
Ok - here is She - v2. Differnt style, soundtrack, dialog. This was a lot harder. Lots of variable to keep coherent. SHÉ — v2. Directed by Rob, produced by Claude. A 66-second first movement of Renée Zhan's BBC short SHÉ (蛇, 'snake') — and a REBUILD, because the first attempt got the film wrong. What the first version got wrong: it adapted a truncated 'opening' from memory, never persisted the script, invented Grimsby's line, played his racist 'no foreign knock-offs' jab as tender violin-admiration, stopped BEFORE Mei enters (the actual story), and softened away the racism that IS the film. Rob caught it; we started over against the real 14-page shooting script, which is now saved to disk as the source of truth. What it actually is: a body-horror allegory about a British-Chinese girl's internalised racism. The violin hickey is the horror seed; Mei is the doppelgänger Fei projects herself onto; the snake is Fei. How it was made: 1. SCRIPT — the real shooting script, saved to disk (the gap that caused the first misread). 2. STYLE — 'Brushflow' from Rob's justrobstyles.com collection: ink-wash portraiture whose DNA is Huang Guangjian's ink DRAGON technique. A serpent lives in the style itself. 3. CASTING — reference sheets for Fei, Mei and Grimsby (the fix for the character drift that broke SHÉ-1). 4. STILLS — 15 key frames, reference-conditioned; the style must be right BEFORE animating, because image-to-video only smooths what it's given. 5. CONTINUITY — a vision check on every frame (a skill written during this build) caught the all-strings orchestra, the spit flying from the wrong mouth, the mismatched room lighting, and the hickey landing on the wrong side. 6. MOTION + VOICE — seedance-2.0-mini, low motion; seven native spoken lines, each whisper-verified (which caught 'knock-OUTS'). 7. CUT — ffmpeg-full: a Didot/Hiragino 'SHÉ 蛇' title card (drawtext, only possible after swapping to an ffmpeg build with libass), 0.4s crossfades, and the lyria-3 score sid
Tags: title card, SHÉ, 蛇, Chinese character snake, pinyin she, minimalist typography, black and white graphic, serif typography, year of the snake, Chinese zodiac, opening title frame, monochrome design, dark background graphic, short film title, snake logotype
Comments
justrob
to be fair, me and claude did work on this for 3 or 4 hours. Had to reshoot many scenes and the score was a bitch to align.
justrob
Glad you like it! 😊 - have another version im working on - recasting some of the actors, changing the pace a bit , adding the second scene
justrob
and thank you for taking the time to comment.
justrob
i think there are 3 or 4 more parts to make.
justrob
thank you! This done with Claude + MCP + API
justrob
@King will love the spend on this one!
justrob
two things id correct if it wasnt 11:00 at night. First. The students hissing in the hallway read as more like zombies. 2nd the students in the hall doing the mocking clapping are doing it in unison. Maybe thats ok.
justrob
i wouldnt say it was easy - but its nice to be able to tell a minion what i want changed and how to change it and have it work out the details
base451121
It’s incredible what’s being built and how it’s coming together—fantastic result, great job, my friend. And to think people believe everything is so easy with AI. 🫨🤥👍😉👋
base451121
Yes, Rob, I totally get that! Being able to control the system is actually the whole point! That’s exactly why we’re here—to learn how to do that!!