Pelican Shell Explainer
A 30-second explainer with a synthesised voice: an animated pelican on a unicycle walks through a Unix shell pipeline while juggling fish. Characters, code and narration in one prompt.
By Riley Goodside @goodside Sep 24, 2026
- Type
- prompt
- Made with
- Claude Opus 5.5
- Topics
- Explainer · Characters · Code
The prompt
Create a 30s animated video with sythesized voice where an animated pelican on a unicycle explains the shell command `w | tail -n +3 | cut -d ' ' -f1 | sort -u` with visuals while juggling several fish.
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