Claude Skill Nº04

Script to Diorama Ad

A Claude skill that turns a brand and script into a miniature tilt-shift diorama ad. A handmade toy-scale world where the everyday chore shrinks to a charming, handled miniature while real life stays big and sharp. Claude researches the brand, splits the script into beats, generates each still with Gemini nano-banana, animates it with Veo 3.1, lays one continuous voice-over across the whole edit, and crossfades it into one master MP4.

What you get06 sections
  1. 01One command chain: brand research to beats to stills to animated clips to continuous VO to crossfaded master MP4. You are the creative director; the scripts do the plumbing.
  2. 02Miniature tilt-shift look (felt, foamcore, air-dry clay, die-cast metal) with the deliberate handmade imperfections that dodge the 'too clean = CGI' tell.
  3. 03The signature move: ONE giant photoreal element (a hand, a real product, a bowl of food) intruding on the toy world. The fidelity gap sells the scale.
  4. 04The strategic inversion: the everyday chore shrinks to a toy that quietly gets handled while real life stays big. Made for delivery, logistics, fintech, insurance, home, travel: brands whose promise is 'handle the small stuff.'
  5. 05One continuous voice-over track laid across the whole edit with gentle crossfades, so the film reads as ONE coherent story instead of choppy per-beat cuts.
  6. 06Ships with a worked 6-beat example (miniature delivery scene, hard-cut to real kitchen, giant-hand money shot) so the first run is a fill-in-the-blanks, not a blank page.
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Kartike S.

One of the more thoughtful takes I've seen around the Meta ecosystem lately. Your posts consistently show a systems-level understanding of Meta rather than surface-level dashboard thinking, and that's pretty rare.

Usama S.

No fluff, no flattery, but your content is really great, amazing. I recently read a couple of your blogs and it blew my mind.

Jonah C.

Super helpful, thanks for sharing this. The 1 ad per ~$3k framing really clicked. This gives me a clearer way to help diagnose what's ads.

Chris G.

Lots of alpha in your newsletter. I really enjoy your content on LinkedIn. Keep up the good work.

Mark C.

I read some of your posts and you seem to have a very well rounded understanding of how to monitor and maintain profitability of a Meta account.

Daniel B.

Came across your substack and love the content.

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