Claude built every shot of this drift race as grey boxes in Blender, then Seedance 2.5 on Artlist turned that blocking into the final AI video. Here’s the full workflow: connect Claude to Blender, block out a complex scene in plain English, and use the clay render as a video reference so your AI generation actually follows your camera moves and timing. No Blender experience needed.
If you’ve ever burned credits on an AI shot that never quite matches the one in your head (cars on the wrong level, the camera going the wrong way), this is the fix.
🔗 LINKS
Blender (free): https://www.blender.org/download/
Blender MCP server + Claude extension: https://www.blender.org/lab/mcp-server/
Artlist MCP (connect Artlist to Claude): https://artlist.io/mcp
Artlist MCP URL: https://mcp.artlist.io/mcp
⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00 Every shot started as grey boxes
1:10 Setup: connect Claude to Blender and Artlist
3:06 Describe your scene like a story
4:06 Claude builds the grey-box scene
6:11 Turning the blocking into an AI video
7:28 The first generation
8:32 Same prompt without the Blender blocking
9:48 Fix only the sections you don’t like
12:33 The missing piece: music
14:03 4 things that tripped me up
15:26 What the whole scene cost
16:46 Motion graphics brief winner
🛠️ WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
• How to connect Claude to Blender with the official Blender MCP server and the Claude desktop extension
• How to describe a scene like a story (location, beats, time of day, feeling) so Claude can block it out for you
• How to use a grey clay render as a Seedance 2.5 video reference to lock in camera moves and timing
• How to keep one Claude chat for the whole project, so it writes your Artlist prompt with every shot already in context
• How to use Artlist character tags so your reference sheets load into the prompt automatically
• How to fix single sections with Premiere Pro Scene Edit Detection instead of regenerating the whole scene
• How to test a section in Seedance 2.5 draft mode before you render it at 1080p
📊 WHAT IT COST
Claude’s Blender work (built the streets, parking garage and roof, animated both cars, set every camera, 4 rounds of changes): about $1.26 of a Claude Max 5x plan, assuming 80% of the plan is used.
Artlist: one 30s Seedance 2.5 generation at 1080p (about 30,000 credits) + three fixed sections, about 6s together, run twice (12,000 credits) = 42,000 credits for the whole scene.
💡 TIPS FROM THIS BUILD
1. If two things look alike in your blocking, Seedance can swap them. Give them different colours AND different shapes.
2. Tiny moments get skipped. Make them bigger, brighter and closer to the camera.
3. More prompt isn’t better. About 12,000–13,000 characters was the sweet spot.
4. Fewer extras in the background keeps your main characters consistent.
If your shot is one simple camera move on one subject, skip all this and just prompt it.
❓ FAQ
Can Claude control Blender?
Yes. With the free Blender MCP server and the Claude desktop app, Claude can build, animate and render a scene inside Blender from plain-English instructions.
Do I need to know Blender?
No. You describe the scene; Claude builds it. Grey boxes are all you need.
Why use a Blender blocking video as a reference for AI video?
It gives the model exact camera paths, timing and positions to follow, so complex multi-shot scenes come out the way you planned instead of being guessed.
Does the Blender connector cost anything?
Blender and the connector are free. The work Claude does comes out of your Claude usage.
Can Claude find music on Artlist?
Yes. With the Artlist MCP connected and *.artlist.io allowed in Claude’s settings, Claude can search the Artlist library. That’s how it found and placed the music track in this video.
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Woah…….this is sick.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
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How?
Would this work with a cheaper video gen model?
Unfortunately no, I did a LOT of testing with other models with this setup and nothing even came close to Seedance 2.5. Loads of problems with the others and they all took it more as a suggestion instead of a true visual skeleton.
@artlist_ioyou’re right. Been spending a lot of money on testing this with Wan 3.0 and it made so many mistakes
It’s no longer called ‘Premiere Pro’, but simply ‘Premiere’ now. 😉
😂
I’m having trouble with the with making animations on Blender. It takes forever. I’m doing it on the Claude Cloud. I’m doing it because my computer sucks. I’m on a MacBook Air with eight gigs. I got it four years ago. So I’m just curious if I want to make like you know a video that’s a couple minutes long of Blender footage. Like, are there any solutions to make this go quicker? Do I need to get a graphics card? Like how can I do this?
What do you mean forever? You do something wrong definitely in the render process.
Any Black Friday sale coming for stock catalog ?
very coolll