⏳ RIGHT DAY, WRONG YEAR

Oct 25, 2026. I open my phone and realise CapCut World LA happened yesterday.

No flight can fix that. So I grab the time machine I definitely finished building, dial in OCT 24, and press the big red button.

It never misses the day. The year is another story.

My third entry, and the end of a trilogy: after a flying saucer and an 11,700 km long jump, this time the problem isn't the distance, it's the calendar.

🎬 How it was made ① Look development: a character sheet keeping my traveller's face and curly hair from my earlier entries, now in a mustard corduroy jacket, plus a time-machine prop sheet (idle, glowing, smoking) and empty location plates. All generated with Codex image generation. ② First frames: each scene composed from the character sheet, the prop sheet and its location plate in a fixed order, so the same face, jacket and machine carry through every jump. ③ Every shot animated in CapCut Video Studio with Seedance 2.0 Fast (720p, 9:16): a 15s wake-up, a 5s dial insert, four 10s jumps and a 12s arrival. Each prompt is timed beat by beat and ends on a vanish flash so every cut lands inside the light. Two shots were regenerated to tighten the story: a new first stop and a cleaner arrival. ④ The rolling date counter is typography, not generated text. Rendered frame by frame with Claude Code and Codex in the same style as my earlier location stamps: the day rolls 25 → 24, the year spins and slams onto each wrong year, and a cyan jump flash matches the machine's glow. ⑤ Cut in CapCut: "Quirky Adventure" from the CapCut music library, a whoosh on every jump, a buzzer on every wrong year, a marimba on arrival, a smoke puff, and a fade to black.

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