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Why Farts Are Funny

A 75-second animated explainer: what a fart is made of, a field guide to five types of toots, and why we laugh at them.

How it was made

Claude Code wrote the script, with a source for every fact, and drew each scene in code as a web page. A script captured that page frame by frame and ffmpeg turned the frames into video. Each animation is timed to a word in the narration, so re-recording a line re-times the scenes around it.

The narrator, the toot sounds and the music were made with ElevenLabs. Captions are in the player.