Claude Fable 5.1 made me a nice animated pelican

chrononaut 44 days 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 :)

batperson 43 days ago | |

The video compression created the illusion, it removed enough frames to where you can't tell the motion of the spokes since every frame refresh they moved enough distance to be "valid" for both forward and backward motion.

emmelaich 44 days ago | |

They are correct!

CamperBob2 44 days ago |

Generated by GLM 5.3 NVFP4 (https://huggingface.co/local-inference-lab/GLM-5.3-NVFP4) in 6 minutes, running locally on 4x RTX6000: https://crimson-jeri-74.tiiny.site/

So, who trained on who?

tmikaeld 43 days ago | |

That’s really impressive! I’d say even better than fable managed

CamperBob2 43 days ago | | |

To be fair, I misspoke, the NVFP4 quant I used for that test runs on 8 cards. Still...!

emmelaich 44 days 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!

0dayz 44 days 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.

andai 44 days 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 44 days 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.

catlifeonmars 44 days ago |

How do you determine the “best” pelican? I couldn’t see much of a difference between extra high and max.

simonw 44 days 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.

setr 44 days ago | |

Ignoring aesthetics, there’s simply significantly more detail produced by max

jerf 44 days 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 44 days 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.

jerf 44 days ago | | |

Thank you for the clarification. I'm just impressed by the whole thing in general.

magarnicle 44 days ago | |

It didn't get real wings until the Extra High version.

catlifeonmars 43 days ago | | |

Wings aren’t that good for holding handlebars

GiffertonThe3rd 43 days ago |

Dear lord, the poor fish! It's still alive, flapping in the basket under the hot sun. Won't someone[Claude] think of the fish?