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

The author handed Claude Opus 5.5 the JavaScript code for a sankin kotai animation written about ten years ago and asked it to make the piece more appealing, then shared the remade result.

With just one prompt, the author asked Claude Sonnet 5.5 to explain who is winning the AI race and had it output the answer as a video.

The author used Opus 5.5 to turn "how a drill machine works" into a concept visualization video, showing the model's ability at explanatory animation.

The author connected Claude Sonnet 5.5 with Pollo AI and ElevenLabs over MCP and used a single prompt to produce a 9:16 museum-plate-style motion graphics short on human evolution.

The author had Claude Opus 5.5 produce a Live2D character directly, showing the model's ability to deliver finished animated characters.

The author had Opus 5.5 design the reward function to train a duck to trace a butterfly drawn by his daughter, running 24 training rounds and sharing a video.

An Indonesian creator explains a Reels A/B testing method: ChatGPT generates several thumbnails in one prompt, then Opus 5.5 produces at least five versions of the title, caption and 3-second hook for the same video to test via Trial Reels.

Inspired by the line "the eye is the first circle" from an Emerson essay, the author used tools including Opus 5.5 to turn a long-held mental image into a short animated film.

Replying to a comparison, the author shares a 3D scene generated with Opus 5.5 in PlayCanvas and says the result isn't bad either.

The author made a video tribute to the classic mecha fighting game OMF 2097 using Claude Opus 5.5.

The author argues Opus 5.5 is strong at making videos, pushes back on claims that the output all looks the same, and collects several ways to use it as a starting point for others.

The author vibe-edited a video to test a Claude plugin they built: it gave finer control and used far fewer tokens, but creative quality dropped, which they attribute to their own execution rather than Opus 5.5.