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

The author says Opus 5.5 is very good at producing short-form video slop, and that ordinary people will struggle to keep up with that output.

The author used ChatGPT for images, Claude Opus 5.5 for prompts and Dreamina to run Seedance 2.0, producing a 720p video of the Whitstable fishing village in Kent, England, and joked that the rainy scene has no rain.

The team says it dropped After Effects and used Opus 5.5 with Imagine MCP to finish a motion design launch video in under two hours.

The author asked Opus 5.5 inside Cursor to replace the animated sections of an old ad with new ones built on the latest design library, was happy with the result, and plans to run the ad again.

The author gave a blog post to Opus with the single instruction to read it and make a video, showing a workflow from long text to finished video with Opus 5.5.

The author says the music for their previous video was written and performed by Opus 5.5, showing its ability in audio and video workflows.

The author says Opus 5.5 handled the whole video, from writing the script and sourcing Creative Commons footage to editing, upscaling, colorizing, voiceover, subtitles and music, and shares the seven-step workflow.

The author shows that a fully AI workflow using ElevenLabs v4 voice and Opus 5.5 can produce a web commercial.

The author redid video tasks previously given to Opus 5.5 using Sonnet 5.5 at Medium, getting roughly 80% of the look, though the 3D magic ruler came out abstract.

The author used Claude Opus 5.5 to make a video that is itself a tutorial on how to make animations with Opus 5.5.

The author redesigned the vibany.com landing page and had Opus 5.5 automatically record a demo video using that page.

The author says that for those who prefer a video version, this clip was generated in one shot by Opus 5.5.