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

PolloAI demonstrates connecting Pollo MCP to Claude Opus 5.5, where a single prompt builds game mechanics and story and generates characters, environments and visual assets for an open-world-style game.

On day 15 of his founder journey, the author used Opus 5.5 to make a motion promo video for mailient.xyz, alongside exam prep and networking.

The author shows a mechanical character animation generated by Opus 5.5 in roughly two hours, calling the detail impressive.

The author asked Claude Opus 5.5 to make a 'History of X' video and remarks that online ideas can now be cloned one-to-one.

Seeing Claude-made motion videos all over the feed, the author used Opus 5.5 to create a dynamic motion video for the FTCG game and found it quite good.

The creator used Claude Code with Midjourney, MiniMax music and about 4,000 lines of code to redraw every frame for a hyperpop-style music video.

The author says filling in five bracketed fields and sending them to Opus 5.5 yields a finished film, from storyboard and voiceover to render, and shares the full prompt.

The author tried the popular trick of turning a GitHub repo into a product promo video with Opus 5.5: the quality is high, but the style feels identical every time, like AI pre-made food.

The official YouArt account says Opus 5.5 performs strongly at motion generation and shares a video made with the YouArt MCP.

The author packaged an article as a motion-reel skill and had Opus generate an animated video of Alibaba Qwen's model history, with the repo released.

The author asked Opus 5.5 to make a film about space exploration, with every frame and every note written in code, and shared the result.

The author says the whole video was made with Opus, and that even the person appearing in it is not real.