I wanted to finally understand materials science, so I had Claude make me 3Blue1Brown-style explainer videos about it. Dark canvas, formulas that write themselves on in color, a calm narrator, a soft piano score. Four videos so far (6 to 15 minutes each), a few evenings with Claude Code + Opus 5.5. I never opened a video editor.
The first version was unwatchable. It introduced 50 new terms in 7 minutes and I did not understand half of it myself. So I had Claude study how Grant Sanderson actually explains things, measure it, and turn it into rules. The rules are the part worth sharing. The rest of this file is every setting you need to rebuild the whole thing: look, voice, music, mix, export, and a prom