Giant robot catches a meteor

Create a 2D anime short for the web. It must look completely like real Japanese anime, as if it were taken directly from a finished theatrical anime film. This is traditional-looking, hand-drawn 2D anime, not a 3D animation, a moving illustration, or a stylized web graphic.

Build it in three.js, render every frame in code and synthesize every sound. No video models, no image models, no stock art, no audio samples. Deliver one 1920x1080, 24 fps MP4 and a single self-contained HTML file that plays the film offline. Use any tools, libraries, references, guides, literally anything, as long as the final result looks 100% like hand-drawn 2D anime.

Use bright summer theatrical anime and classic super-robot anime as the art style reference for the design, line work, painted backgrounds, color and atmosphere. The film is 82 seconds long, in 36 shots, with no dialogue. Its heroes are a tiny creature called Clawd and MEGA CLAWD, a giant robot built in his exact shape. No people appear in the film.

HEROES

Clawd: a small terracotta vinyl-toy creature. One wide rounded block is his head and body, with a flat face, two big glossy black eyes, a small mouth, two round side nubs for arms and four short stubby legs. All his acting is in the face and the squash of his body.

MEGA CLAWD: a 120 m anime mecha in Clawd's exact silhouette. Overlapping terracotta armor plates with cream and charcoal panels, bronze joints, bolts, vents and hand-lettered markings CLAWD-01 and 巨神. A dark glass visor where Clawd's eyes glow amber, a faceted crystal reactor that glows blue, blue thrusters in the soles. Its nubs unfold into big armored arms with clamp hands. It has slept for decades on the seabed under barnacles and kelp.

WORLD

An original Japanese seaside town on green hills: kawara tile roofs, laundry on balconies, telephone wires, a vermilion torii on the hill, a calico cat asleep on hot roof tiles, a glass wind chime on a porch. A harbour with a seawall, tetrapods, red and white lighthouses, small fishing boats and a wooden pier. A paper cup of blue shaved ice.

STORY

A blazing summer day. Clawd sits at the end of the pier eating blue shaved ice. A glint flares in the syrup: high above the clouds, a meteor ignites and comes down burning. The gulls burst from the wires and the wind chime stops. Clawd looks up, sets the cup carefully on a bollard and dives into the sea.

Through luminous cyan water he sinks toward a colossal shape on the seabed. Its visor lights up with his eyes. He drops through a hatch into the cockpit, grabs the two levers, and the reactor ignites. The bay boils into a white dome and MEGA CLAWD rises, sheets of water pouring off every plate, towering over the town. The ice cup trembles on the bollard.

The meteor splits a cumulus massif in two. MEGA CLAWD crouches, its arms unfold, and it launches in a ring of spray, climbing through the clouds to the edge of space. Near silence. The hands catch the meteor in a white flash. The armor glows hot, plates buckle, alarms go red in the cockpit while Clawd strains at the levers. The reactor surges, blue light runs into the arms, the meteor cracks with lightning and bursts into thousands of glowing fragments.

At dusk they fall over the town as shooting stars and the cat sits up to watch. MEGA CLAWD falls back smoking and crashes into the bay, and a wave breaks over the seawall. The giant kneels in the water, its visor eyes soften into a smile. Soaked, Clawd climbs back onto the pier, finds his cup, the ice has melted into blue water, and drinks it anyway, happy. End card: "Fable 5.5" in brush lettering, a red seal, the title MEGA CLAWD 巨神.

LIGHT

High-key anime light, never murky: a deep-blue summer sky, towering white cumulus with lavender shadows, a cobalt-to-turquoise sea with sun glitter. Underwater is luminous cyan with god rays, never black. The ending is a warm, colorful dusk. Cel shading with two hard tones and a crisp highlight, confident ink lines, gouache painted backgrounds, effects drawn like hand-painted effect cels.

SOUND

An original orchestral score on one summer theme: felt piano and strings at the start, the meteor cuts it off, a choir underwater, the theme returns as a heroic brass call when MEGA CLAWD rises, near silence before the impact, then a colossal hit, a glory chord on the shatter, and it resolves exactly on Clawd's sip. Surf, cicadas, gulls, the wind chime, splashes, the reactor, thrusters, alarms and lightning, all timed to the picture.

IT MUST NOT LOOK LIKE

- 3D: no plastic materials, CGI shading or game-engine lighting.
- Boxes: no plain blocks for houses, no sphere meteor, no scaled-up toy as the mecha.
- Vector art: no flat fills without paint, ink and volume.
- Murk: nothing dark, grey or muddy, no black ocean.
- Web animation: no floating, sliding, smooth software easing or 60 fps floaty motion.
- Particle mush for fire, water or energy.

CHECKS

Every frame is a pure function of film time. Before the final render, test every frame: nothing passes through anything, the cup sits on the bollard, the hands grip the levers and the meteor, Clawd stays terracotta in every light.

The result should feel huge, warm and beautiful, a summer blockbuster in bright anime colors. Before finishing, inspect random frames as still images. If any frame does not look completely like real 2D anime, keep improving it. Do not stop until every frame could pass as a still from a theatrical anime film.

Source: the creator's reply under the post. Kept in its original language, unedited.

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