Timelapse + Final Film I One AI Picture → A Living Cyberpunk Street: AI Models It in Blender

It started with a single AI-generated picture of a rainy cyberpunk street in Japan. Over one day, an AI agent rebuilt it in Blender piece by piece — houses from the timber frame up, lanterns, a torii gate, a cherry tree, a maglev viaduct, a koi hologram — and then switched on the night. Stay to the end for the finished 90-second walk down Koi Street. What you see in the timelapse is real screen capture of the Blender viewport, sped up about 1.8×, with idle moments and other windows cut out. The modelling was done by Claude (Anthropic's AI) driving Blender live through a custom add-on; the reference picture was generated with ChatGPT. The street, brands and people are fictional. Chapters 0:00 The reference picture — and a glimpse of the finished film 0:14 First house: from timber frame to tiled roof 0:37 The street front: lanterns and an izakaya stall 0:51 Torii gate and cherry tree 1:03 Viaduct, towers, the pagoda and the koi tower 1:22 Kanban shops and the kagura pavilion 1:42 Shop fronts, a flying car and neon signs 2:07 Night falls: switching to the rendered view 2:19 Koi hologram, wet asphalt, people in the rain 2:40 Lit windows, lanterns with kanji, night shots 2:56 The finished film: a rainy night walk down Koi Street Music: "Sands of Serenity" — Patrick Patrikios (YouTube Audio Library). Sound of the final film: original city ambience synthesised for this film (no samples). Made with Blender 5.2 (EEVEE). End screen on the last 7 seconds.