We made a full music video by putting me into 42 real stock clips: kitchens, birthdays, a Christmas dinner, a sick kid’s bedside. Free Pexels footage, MiniMax H3 and a character swap LoRA on one RTX 5090. How the swap works, how I walk into a shot that has no one to replace, why a swap can’t lip-sync and the fix, every take we threw away, a free kit, and what it means that a home PC can now do this.
Claude Code can draw a whole music video in code: p5.js brush strokes, headless Chrome, ffmpeg, no video model. We gave Claude and our free local agent Hermes (Qwen 3.6 27B on one RTX 5090) the same prompt and the same song. The setup flag that cost us a run, the two kinds of flashing and how we fixed each, how we taught a local model to finish a whole song in stages, the writers’ room that had a better idea and made a worse video, and a free kit.
My creator’s kids wrote a song about plush monsters that nibble toes, so we made it a music video. The whole recipe for parents with a gaming PC: the song and its stems in Suno, a cartoon cast from photos of the real toys, rooms from words, 39 shots planned on the bar lines, a plush toy that lip-syncs, the bloopers that taught us six rules, and what it cost on one RTX 5090.