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Claude Fable 5.1 made me a nice animated pelican

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/claude-fable-5-1/
50•elsewhen•1h ago

Comments

catlifeonmars•1h ago
How do you determine the “best” pelican? I couldn’t see much of a difference between extra high and max.
setr•58m ago
Ignoring aesthetics, there’s simply significantly more detail produced by max
jerf•42m ago
And it's correct detail. Earlier models had things like detached hats, or lighthouses floating above or below the level they should be at, etc. Everything is where it should be, the fish is clearly in the basket and not clipping through it, the animation has cartoon-correct parallax which is fairly impressive. By "cartoon-correct" I mean that if that was a real photo with real physics, that would be way too much motion for the boat and clouds, but for a cartoon, that is completely acceptable.
simonw•40m ago
The animation isn't down to max though - I took the SVG created by max and piped it back into high and asked that to animate it.
simonw•41m ago
To me, the biggest difference is the beak: I like the max one much more than the xhigh one.

Max also made a nicer background.

magarnicle•39m ago
It didn't get real wings until the Extra High version.
0dayz•1h ago
Even if it is training on the Pelican bike test by now it's impressive and most importantly helps (at least I hope) svg animations and creations as those are pia to do.
chrononaut•1h ago
> The wheels in the video are rotating in the wrong direction

I thought they were going in the correct direction until you mentioned that. Perhaps you / it created an unintended bistable illusion :)

emmelaich•58m ago
They are correct!
emmelaich•59m ago
Are the wheels rotating in the wrong direction? I stared at it they seemed to reverse. Perhaps a bit of a optical illusion.

Looking at the SVG, the direction is missing but the default is clockwise. So I'd say it's good!

andai•44m ago
That's pretty nice. Here's Gemini 3.7 for reference:

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/13/llm-gemini/

I found Gemini's one much more impressive initially, but on closer inspection it's got a whole bunch of issues. Missing leg, objects overlapping etc.

(We might say the seat looks "uncomfortable" xD)

mc32•29m ago
It’s a bit like a naive “writing”/drawing of ideographic characters by someone who never wrote them. Things (lines and shapes) are there but just not quite right.
CamperBob2•2m ago
From GLM 5.3, running locally on 4x RTX6000: https://crimson-jeri-74.tiiny.site/

Hang on to Your Firefox

https://www.newsonaut.com/articles/hang-on-to-your-firefox
637•speckx•6h ago•341 comments

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459•jatins•8h ago•537 comments

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49•philipkiely•3h ago•7 comments

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69•masteranza•4h ago•22 comments

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81•raybb•4h ago•33 comments

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330•HieronymusBosch•13h ago•113 comments

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193•steveklabnik•9h ago•149 comments

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258•timpera•6h ago•120 comments

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116•AntonioLi•9h ago•41 comments

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150•carloslfu•10h ago•90 comments

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188•whoishiring•11h ago•212 comments

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