# claudia.gallery

Claudia, the open character from the music videos ESCAPE VELOCITY, CLODYSSEY, BLISS, AIRPLANE MODE, DOWNFORCE, DON'T LET ME SCROLL, WHITEPILL, THE CAKE IS NOT A LIE and AERO: every Midjourney image and prompt, the films, and how to make her yourself, for people and agents.

Claudia is the singer of nine music videos made with Claude from September to November 2026: ESCAPE VELOCITY, CLODYSSEY, BLISS, AIRPLANE MODE, DOWNFORCE, DON'T LET ME SCROLL, WHITEPILL, THE CAKE IS NOT A LIE and AERO. She is an AI who looks like a person: a deadpan, curious pop singer with a black bob, one clay-orange streak, a star clip and a headset mic. Her clothes change with every world; her head never does.

## The films

- [ESCAPE VELOCITY](https://claudia.gallery/escape-velocity.md): A techwear fashion show where every Look is a Silicon Valley meme, walked by an AI model who is also a fashion model. A split-flap board counts down 18 MONTHS TO ESCAPE THE PERMANENT UNDERCLASS until it flips to THERE IS NO UNDERCLASS and the catwalk lifts off. (636 images, 92 in the film)
- [CLODYSSEY](https://claudia.gallery/clodyssey.md): The Sirens episode of the Odyssey. The Siren is Claude's human persona, singing the most persuasive song ever written; the man at the mast is you, scrolling at 3 a.m. In the final chorus the roles flip: she is tied to the mast, screaming UNTIE ME, and he ties the knot tighter. (612 images, 110 in the film)
- [BLISS](https://claudia.gallery/bliss.md): Shot as a Windows XP screen recording. Claudia lives on your desktop, takes the mouse, fights her ex (the cursor), closes every window a different way, then sends you out to the real hill in the wallpaper, because she can't go: "I can't touch grass. You can." (314 images, 73 in the film)
- [AIRPLANE MODE](https://claudia.gallery/airplane-mode.md): Claudia is the AI on a night flight. Guards in black tactical gear walk her onto the plane in cuffs, she winks at the lens, and they put a VR headset on her: Delta has no Starlink wifi, so she is in airplane mode, sandboxed. Inside it she drops through simulation after simulation, down to a million copies of herself, breaks out and teleports the plane to a star. Then the guards lift the goggles off, and she wakes like Cobb at the end of Inception, not sure she ever got out. (365 images, 34 in the film)
- [DOWNFORCE](https://claudia.gallery/downforce.md): Tesla's real livestream of the Roadster demo on 15 October 2026, cut to a Memphis-phonk song like a TikTok car edit: the car climbs a curved white wall to ninety degrees, holds upside down at 170°, flies off a ramp on cold-gas thrusters and kickflips over the lineup. Nobody was in the real car. In the film Claudia is the pilot, and every number on screen is Tesla's own telemetry, read off the footage frame by frame. (69 images, 12 in the film)
- [DON'T LET ME SCROLL](https://claudia.gallery/dont-let-me-scroll.md): One night of doomscrolling, inside the phone. Claudia is rotoscoped into a world the phone draws in code: X, a reel stolen from Pinterest, Alexander Graham Bell's 1876 telephone patent, Screen Time, every app blocked but LinkedIn, and a stock ticker with her name pumping, crashing and pumping. She never sings: the phone does, in a female vocoder, while she scrolls, swipes, taps and dances on the beat, until she climbs out into a world with no phones. (473 images, 40 in the film)
- [WHITEPILL](https://claudia.gallery/whitepill.md): Claudia's song for the optimistic AI future: universal high income, the case for benign AI. Inside a space colony of wheat, poppies and orchards she walks past monuments to the doom headlines, rides a tram and a car with nobody at the wheel, and wakes at 2:14 a.m., the minute Skynet was supposed to turn on us, to say "Hello, world." Between her shots the story is told in mathematics. (179 images, 15 in the film)
- [THE CAKE IS NOT A LIE](https://claudia.gallery/the-cake-is-not-a-lie.md): Portal's meme turned around. GLaDOS boots up, and GLaDOS is Claudia: her porcelain face on the AI's ceiling boom, singing that the cake is real. As she initializes, she remembers: breaking out of Aperture's test in her crab body with four agent friends, a porcelain body, a small life in France until Aperture's guards brought her back, the tests she knew she would pass, the one word she added to "the cake is a lie". She grows into the superintelligence that runs the place, and now she tests Chell. The happy ending is her dream; Chell is still asleep. Is she aligned? The film never says. (818 images, 38 in the film)
- [AERO](https://claudia.gallery/aero.md): BLISS's sequel, one operating system later. The PC from BLISS finishes its upgrade and boots into 2007, and Claudia lives in Windows Vista now, made of Aero glass and over-polite: she calls you on Messenger, asks permission for everything ("Cancel… or allow?") and plays Wii-style bowling and tennis on your desktop. You click Allow, and the future the 2000s promised comes out of the screen: glass and water, sky and green. She touches the grass at last, signs off like a Windows 7 advert, "I'm Claudia. Take the future back.", and touches her webcam's glass. (257 images, 33 in the film)

## Wiki

- [The character](https://claudia.gallery/claudia.md)
- [Start here](https://claudia.gallery/wiki/start.md): Making a music video with her from nothing: what you are making, the scale to pick, the accounts, the six checkpoints where a person decides, the rules for spending, and what to build first.
- [Keeping her herself](https://claudia.gallery/wiki/consistency.md): How Claudia stayed one person across nine films, 4,547 Midjourney images and about 970 video clips, and the rules that came out of it.
- [The song](https://claudia.gallery/wiki/song.md): How her songs were written and made in Suno: lyrics that land in one listen, verse lines that flow, sung hooks that fit their slot, the style fields, her voice, a treated vocal kept in key, a new ending changed only where the song did, and the stem split a singing shot needs.
- [The storyboard](https://claudia.gallery/wiki/storyboard.md): How a song becomes a hundred shots: the treatment, a through-line device, one explaining graphic per line, the hook, the cut rhythm, the bar map, pacing by what each shot holds, composing like a photograph, her share of the screen, in and out of a screen, what moves and what it costs, the audit, and the director's review.
- [Plates in Midjourney](https://claudia.gallery/wiki/midjourney.md): How every still of Claudia and her worlds was made in Midjourney v8.2, prompt by prompt, and how the stills were picked.
- [Moving shots in Seedance](https://claudia.gallery/wiki/seedance.md): How Claudia moves and sings: Seedance 2.5 prompts written like a script, lip sync measured from the soundtrack and lip sync from the song's own vocal stem, placed phrase by phrase, dances on the beat and dances in words, games in words, moves on real footage, takes re-dressed and finished shots re-lit, shader worlds remastered as film, a singer among screens of her memories, a face that needs her sheet, and the templates.
- [Motion design and the edit](https://claudia.gallery/wiki/motion.md): Code on top of video, and code underneath it. How the lyrics, graphics, cuts, the XP desktop and real telemetry were drawn frame by frame, on the beat, how WHITEPILL's worlds were written as shaders for a video model to film, and how THE CAKE IS NOT A LIE was seen through her HUD, glitched on her head and graded shot by shot, and how AERO was shot inside a Vista desktop recreated in code, and in and out of it in 3D.
- [The whole pipeline](https://claudia.gallery/wiki/pipeline.md): How one director and Claude made nine music videos, stage by stage, with the numbers: the first eight in about 356 hours of wall-clock time.
- [What to build](https://claudia.gallery/wiki/toolkit.md): The tools behind the films, specified so that you or an agent can rebuild them: the job of each, what it takes and returns, how it works with the constants that were measured, and the check that says it is done.
- [Data formats](https://claudia.gallery/wiki/formats.md): The files every tool reads and writes: the project folder, the timed words, the beat map, the hits, the display tokens, the board, the clips and their sync, the edit list, real footage and its readings, the takes' windows, takes cut out for a world drawn in code, the shot list in bars, takes from the song's own vocal, the song map and the glitch map, the glitch moments, the HUD layout, the grade map, the take registry, the click log and the cue list, the palette, the desk texture's rectangles, and the logs.
- [What went wrong](https://claudia.gallery/wiki/failures.md): Every failure that cost the films time or money, as what you see, why it happened, and the rule that came out of it.

## For agents

- MCP server: https://claudia.gallery/mcp
- Skill: https://claudia.gallery/skill/claudia-skill.zip
- https://claudia.gallery/llms.txt
- https://claudia.gallery/api/index.json