Superman in continuous animation across art styles (X video; "Fable 5.5" is the creator's claim)
Chetaslua (@chetaslua) · 2026-10-01 · ai-made · 677,475 views
Made by AI
Model: Claude Fable 5.5 (creator's claim; model not announced by Anthropic) · Series: Code-rendered film (LLM writes the program that draws every frame)
Evidence: X post (2026-10-01): 'Welcome To the era of Super intelligence : Fable 5.5 / behold superman in continuous animation in different art style'
Human role: Creator attributes it to Fable 5.5 during the Oct 1 reports of claude.ai routing to an unannounced model; process not described.
Pipeline: Model-written animation → 40-second clip
What's in the video
Description written by Gemini, which watched and listened to the whole video.
Summary
Uploaded by Chetaslua (@chetaslua), this video presents an animation project titled "SUPERMAN: 3000 BC → 2020s: twenty styles, from the rock face to the jacket patch". It showcases a continuous sequence where Superman flies through twenty distinct historical art styles rendered across a poster grid, before pulling back to reveal the full animated design.
What is shown
- [00:00]: The full poster layout displaying the header "SUPERMAN 3000 BC → 2020s" and the 4×5 grid of twenty visual styles.
- [00:01 – 00:05]: The camera zooms in as Superman begins flying through ancient art forms: 01 Petroglyph (pecked sandstone, c. 3000 BC) and 02 Tomb Painting (Egyptian Theban style, c. 1300 BC).
- [00:06 – 00:10]: Transition through classical and medieval styles: 03 Mosaic (Pompeii, c. 79 AD), 04 Stained Glass (Gothic lancet, c. 1220), and 05 Illuminated Initial (Book of Hours, c. 1430).
- [00:11 – 00:15]: Early modern rendering styles: 06 Proportion Study (after Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, c. 1490), 07 Silhouette (cut paper, c. 1790), and 08 Ukiyo-e (after Hokusai's The Great Wave, 1831).
- [00:16 – 00:20]: 19th and early 20th-century print media: 09 Sampler (cross-stitch, 1840s), 10 Strongman Bill (letterpress poster, 1890s), and 11 Constructivism (Soviet avant-garde, 1920s).
- [00:21 – 00:26]: Mid-20th-century pop culture aesthetics: 12 Art Deco (streamline poster, 1930s), 13 Golden Age (Action Comics #1 newsprint style, 1938), 14 Neon (diner sign, 1950s), and 15 Silkscreen (Pop Art after Andy Warhol, 1960s).
- [00:27 – 00:33]: Digital and contemporary eras: 16 Line Printer (ASCII art, 1970s), 17 Handheld (Game Boy 4 shades of green LCD, 1989), 18 Low Poly (Superman 64 polygon ring-flying era, 1999), 19 Stencil (Banksy-style spray paint, 2000s), and 20 Patch (embroidered denim jacket patch, 2020s).
- [00:34 – 00:39]: Superman flies out of the final patch into the border area and zooms across the frame as the camera pulls back out to reveal the complete animated 20-panel poster board.
Claims & numbers
- The poster lists 20 styles spanning from 3000 BC to the 2020s (~5,000 years).
- On-screen caption at the bottom left claims: "twenty ways of drawing one man who never was. every frame is drawn 100% in pure css/svg - no canvases."
Notable quotes
- [00:00]: "SUPERMAN 3000 BC → 2020s: twenty styles, from the rock face to the jacket patch" (on-screen title)
- [00:00]: "twenty ways of drawing one man who never was. every frame is drawn 100% in pure css/svg - no canvases." (on-screen caption)
- [00:30]: "FLY THROUGH THE RINGS!" (on-screen text in panel 18)
Assessment
This is a creative demonstration showcasing continuous animation across stylistic transitions claimed to be generated via AI code assistance. The video demonstrates continuous motion and programmatic styling across all twenty panels without apparent video cuts.
Lyrics & themes
The video is completely instrumental, accompanied by a dynamic orchestral and synth soundtrack with no spoken narration or lyrics. The thematic concept explores the endurance of myth and hero archetypes by imagining Superman existing through every major visual art and media era in human history.
Lore & references
- Historical art homages: Clear references to Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, Hokusai's The Great Wave off Kanagawa, El Lissitzky's Constructivist geometry, Andy Warhol's multi-panel silkscreen portraits, and Banksy's stencil street art.
- Superman & DC Comics lore: Includes references such as "Martha Kent Her Work" on the cross-stitch sampler, "Mr. C. Kent", "Metropolis: The City of Tomorrow", the car-smash pose from Action Comics #1, and "Smallville Supply Co."
- Gaming nostalgia: Recreates Game Boy LCD visuals ("IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! IT'S SUPERMAN!") and parodies the notorious ring-flying mechanics of the 1999 Nintendo 64 game Superman: The New Superman Adventures.
Visual style & craft
The presentation uses clean, responsive 2D vector graphics styled as pure SVG and CSS animations. The camera follows a smooth path from card to card, transitioning Superman's costume, shading, line-weight, and texture (e.g., stone carvings, mosaic tiles, neon glow, ASCII characters, low-poly 3D models, and embroidery threads) to fit each historical period seamlessly before pulling back to the full overview.
Described by gemini-3.8-flash on 2026-10-05 from the video's audio and frames.