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

Without any video generation or editing software, GLSL shaders written by Claude Opus 5.5 render all 198 seconds frame by frame, with visuals driven in real time by beat and frequency spectrum.

The same ink-wash animation style was generated with Gemini 4 Argon and Opus 5.5 via Renoise CLI to compare the two models' output side by side.

The author made a SpaceX history video entirely by chatting with Claude Code: code drew each frame, it found and cut real footage itself, and voiceover, music and effects were all synthesized by Claude, refined over 10 rounds.

Someone built a Mars colony simulation using GPT-6 Astra together with Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5, and shared a demo video.

A curated list of 10 video-production skill packs installable in Claude Code and Codex, covering product promos, explainer animation, hand-drawn shorts and talking-head packaging, with star counts and install notes.

Opus 5.5 was left running nonstop for 24 hours and produced an interactive Three.js city where you can enter bars and clubs with dancing characters, showing how far long-running execution can push a project.

The same prompt was run through Gemini 4 and Opus 5.5 to generate videos, each taking under 17 minutes, and the author compares structure and feel between the two.

Given the same alien-burger prompt, Claude Opus 5.5 built a 15-second Three.js short via CLI in 31 minutes, and the author still prefers its visuals over Gemini Argon's faster, cheaper result.

Chapter 4 of a Harry Potter fan AI animation, produced and directed with Opus 5.5 and voiced by ElevenLabs v4, with Japanese audio and English subtitles.

With no editing software or stock footage, a single prompt led Claude Opus 5.5 to write the script and 31 bilingual subtitles and render a 160-second documentary short entirely in code.

On the same prompt, $7.2 Opus 5.5 produced translucent gummies that stretch and collide realistically, while $22 Gemini Argon 4 output rigid plastic blocks that clip through the ground.

Given the same prompt to build a 3D vegetable stand scene, Opus 5.5 took 48 minutes and cost $12.51, while Gemini 4 Argon took 14 minutes and cost $0.95, with a side-by-side comparison of the results.