Culture & Arts
Each animal plays an instrument, and realistic fur and textures carry them through forests, theaters and cities in an orchestra that keeps changing venues.
01 / Background
This is an original AI fan-made music short that Liandan AI Studio created just as Kling AI first opened to the public. The soundtrack is Jay Chou's song “Greatest Works of Art,” and the film is not the song's official MV. The stars are animals playing music like people, and the challenge was making foxes, lions, leopards, rabbits, pandas and other very different animals look like one orchestra across a run of shots. The film gives each animal an instrument, so every character has a clear part to play, and turns forests, theaters, deserts, flower fields and cities into their stages.
The images had to make it clear which animal it is and also show clearly how it plays. Most shots keep the animal's upper body, the instrument and its hands in one frame, so viewers first see who is playing and then enjoy the costumes, fur, ambient light and the shift from day to night. The location keeps changing, but everything stays centered on the music.
02 / Creative Highlights
The fox plays the violin, the lion conducts, the leopard plays electric guitar, the rabbit plucks the harp and the panda plays the piano. From the pose and the instrument, you know at once what role each plays in the orchestra. Putting different animals together is fun in itself, and their fixed parts let viewers tell who is who at a glance as the shots change.
Strings in the forest, bands in the desert and the city, performances in flower fields and by the water, each on its own stage. Day and night scenes alternate and the light and color shift with them; the theme of performance keeps repeating while the settings and atmosphere keep changing.
The details of fur, costumes and instruments match the lighting of each scene, so the anthropomorphic animals look like they're really there. The images keep the animals' features while showing the instruments and movements clearly, so viewers quickly understand each pairing.
In the opening, a fox in sunglasses plays piano on the sea; at the end, a panda plays piano on the same sea. The star has changed, but the sea, the piano and the playing pose echo the opening, giving a string of separate animal performances a clear ending.
03 / Scene Breakdown
A fox in sunglasses plays piano on the sea, then the violin in an autumn wood; a cat in headphones DJs at a nightclub, a monkey strums an acoustic guitar under a coconut palm, and a lion conducts with a baton in a theater. Five shots, five places, and the “animal band” idea is set up.
After the fox finishes playing piano on the sea, the next shot moves to a golden wood where it plays the violin, changing instrument and place at once.
A cat in headphones scratches records in front of a crowd, followed by a monkey in a straw hat and sunglasses strumming an acoustic guitar under a coconut palm: one night, one day, with completely different moods.
A lion in a black suit stands on the podium waving a baton, with a row of musicians below, and the shot suddenly turns formal.
A crocodile in a cowboy hat sings into a microphone with a guitar at a waterside bar, a leopard in the desert holds an electric guitar, a tiger plays a grand piano before a waterfall, a reindeer plays acoustic guitar beneath snowy mountains, a snow leopard plays trumpet in the wilderness, and a wolf plays electric guitar on a rooftop at night.
The lights of a riverside at night cut straight to midday desert sand; both play guitar, one singing in a bar and one sitting on a dune.
A tiger plays piano on a stone platform before a waterfall, then a reindeer plays guitar in front of snowy mountains and a small cabin, as the background shifts from rushing water to snow.
A snow leopard raises a trumpet beside a cactus, and in the next shot a wolf stands on a high-rise rooftop with the whole city lit up below.
A panda plays the flute by a stream, a dog plays electric guitar on a neon street, a white cat in a white tulle dress plays the flute in a church, a rabbit plucks a harp in a flower field, a sea turtle swims up to a piano on the seabed, and a panda plays guitar by a campfire under the moon. This section covers the widest range of places.
A panda sits among the rocks of a mountain stream playing the flute, then a cut to a neon street at night, where a dog in a black jacket stands in the middle of the road playing an orange electric guitar.
At the end of a church aisle, a white cat in a puffy white tulle dress plays the flute; the next shot is a sunlit flower field, where a white rabbit holds a harp and plucks the strings.
A sea turtle swims toward a grand piano on the seabed, then a panda sits by a campfire playing guitar, with the moon and the Milky Way overhead.
A fox plays saxophone on a rooftop, a leopard plays electric guitar on a dune, a panda sings with a guitar by the water at night, a dog sings to the audience on stage, and a penguin plays drums in the snow. Finally, a panda in sunglasses sits down at the piano on the sea, matching the opening shot of the fox at the piano.
A fox stands playing saxophone against the city at night, and the next shot returns to daytime dunes, where a leopard bends over an electric guitar.
A panda in a straw hat and sunglasses plays and sings by the water at night, then a dog in sunglasses and a floral neckerchief sings into a microphone under a spotlight to a packed audience.
A penguin in a top hat plays a red drum kit in the ice and snow, and finally a panda sits down to play the piano on the sea, ending the film in the same setting as the opening.
04 / Gallery
05 / Results
An AI fan-made animal orchestra short of about 60 seconds, completed in June 2024. On June 10 it was published on Kuaishou by Kling AI's official account, with a caption noting it was among Kling's first creations; a screenshot of the post shows 39K likes, 1,054 saves and 523 shares.
Case Study
In June 2024, shortly after Kling AI opened to the public, we made a 60-second short.
Foxes, pandas, penguins, sea turtles... more than ten kinds of animals take turns performing on the sea, in forests, deserts, churches and on the seabed, set to Jay Chou's song “Greatest Works of Art.”
This is an original AI fan-made short by Liandan AI Studio, not the song's official MV. On June 10, Kling AI's official account published it on Kuaishou, with a caption noting it was among Kling's first creations.
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A song plays for a minute, and if the camera stays on the same character the whole time, viewers soon get bored.
Our approach was simple: every shot gets a new musician, a new instrument and a new place. The fox gets the piano and violin, the penguin the drums, the sea turtle a piano on the seabed, and the rabbit a harp in a flower field.
We also picked places with strong contrasts: daytime dunes followed by a riverside at night, a neon street followed by a church aisle, a flower field followed by the seabed. Every two or three seconds, viewers see a combination they didn't expect.
However much the animals change, one thing stays the same: most shots are medium shots, with the animal's upper body, the instrument and its hands all in frame. Who is playing, and what they're playing, is clear at a glance.
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The film has 23 shots, and apart from the first, it cuts about every 2.5 seconds at very even intervals, so it feels like a new musician steps in with each bar of music.
The rabbit finishes plucking the harp, and the next shot is a sea turtle swimming up to a piano on the seabed, changing instrument and place at once.
Day and night scenes alternate too: the woods, beach and desert are bright, while the nightclub, rooftop and neon street are dark. When the light changes, the rhythm changes with it.
We deliberately used the same setting for the beginning and the end: a piano on the sea. In the opening it's a fox in sunglasses playing; at the end, a panda in sunglasses. That's how a string of unrelated animal performances gets its ending.
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Made just as Kling AI opened to the public, the film was published by Kling AI's official account and earned 39K likes and 1,054 saves on Kuaishou.
For clients, it shows one thing: a social short of a few dozen seconds can be built with AI, one idea per shot, fitting more than a dozen characters and settings into a single film while keeping a consistent look.
For students, here's an approach you can take straight away: first list “animal + instrument + place” combinations, use medium shots throughout to show the whole character and instrument, then cut evenly to the rhythm of the music, and close by returning to the opening setting.
FAQ
This film first set the “animal + instrument + place” pairings, such as penguin with drums, sea turtle with a seabed piano and rabbit with a harp in a flower field, then generated each shot one by one with Kling AI. Most shots are medium shots so the animal, instrument and hands are all in frame, and the result was edited to the rhythm of the music into a 60-second, 23-shot film.
It depends on the pace. This film uses 23 shots in 60 seconds, changing about every 2.5 seconds after the first shot, which suits fast-paced short videos on social platforms. Narrative films use longer and fewer shots.
Not directly. This “Greatest Works of Art” animal band is an original fan-made short by Liandan AI Studio; the song's copyright belongs to its rights holders, and the film is not the official MV. Commercial projects need licensed music or an original score.
Approach
Every shot is built from an “animal, instrument, setting” combination: a rabbit with a harp in a flower field, a sea turtle with a piano underwater, a penguin with a drum kit in the snow. Most shots are medium shots with the animal and instrument in frame together; the location keeps changing, while actions like plucking strings, playing piano and beating drums link the images together.
The bright light and color of forests and flower fields alternate with the nighttime light of neon streets and stages, so the rhythm changes with each new setting; the piano on the sea appears once at the beginning and once at the end, and the last performance shot returns to the opening image.
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