i couldnt find anyone making full movies locally on a mac, so heres what that looks like right now

i searched around for people making actual finished films on their own hardware. not clips, whole movies with story, narration, music and credits, all local. couldnt really find anyone talking about it, so im posting mine in case someone searches this later and wants to see whats possible.

last month i made a 4 minute animated cartoon overnight on an m5 max macbook (128gb) with the wifi off. flux draws the stills, wan 2.2 and ltx animate them, piper narrates, ace-step writes and performs the score, and ffmpeg stitches it all into a film with titles and credits. a script file defines the scenes so the whole thing runs as a pipeline.

its not pixar. characters drift between shots, motion comes in short clips, and the longer films take about 12 hours of compute. but its a real movie from one pipeline on one laptop, and a year ago i wouldve said that was impossible.

if anyone else is making full films locally id genuinely love to see what you made and compare notes. happy to answer anything about the chain.