Making Videos with Claude: Opus 5.5 Animation and Finished-Film Examples

The author struggled to finish a skill, suspects Opus 5.5 got dumber, and gave the finished video as a gift for a creator hitting 10k followers.

A list of ten GitHub repos Claude found useful for earning money on the $20 plan, including Remotion for code-written product demos and ads plus SEO, n8n and Playwright tools.

A short Three.js 3D animation titled Shiokaze (sea breeze), generated with Claude Opus 5.5.

A 5-day-old account hit 9M views with 15-second black-background stick-figure shorts, likely generated in one shot with Claude Opus 5.5 and no After Effects.

The author posts a video captioned only "Made with Claude Opus 5.5", with no details on method or workflow, so the result has to be watched.

Given one brief, Claude Opus 5.5 picked and fact-checked a story, drew characters, built Blender sets, timed captions and sound, and cut a prototype matching a 27M-view animated short format.

FAWNBENCH runs a video comparison of Claude Sonnet 5.5 against Terra 6.1 to see which model performs better.

Following a motion lab tutorial, Opus 5.5 produced a 22-second Halloween short from pure code: 528 frames, Three.js and Blender Python, 21 self-review rounds, $34 in API cost.

The same 30-second 3D big-fish scene cost about $1.04 with Opus 5.5, $0.16 with Sonnet 5.5 and $0.03 with GPT-6.1 Terra; the author asks who won.

Claude Opus 5.5 and ChatGPT-6.1 Terra each generated a pixel dinosaur island with an eruption; Opus's floating island and lava flows look better but cost about $3.50 per build versus $0.05 for Terra.

A walkthrough of using Opus 5.5 with Blender MCP to build scenes, physics and camera moves, then edit and export via Remotion and FFmpeg.

Opus 5.5 built a room-by-room Vietnamese tube house in three.js where each prep task is real storm advice, then blackout and flood hit what you left downstairs.