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

The author used Opus 5.5 to generate a storyboard script, then combined three.js with a real recitation to build a web animation of Zhang Dai's essay "Viewing Snow at Mid-Lake Pavilion."

A developer is building a fully real-time rendered, playable life simulator alone, starting with GPT-5.6 in August and now iterating with Opus 5.5, GPT-6 and Astra.

The author asked Opus 5.5 to make a promo video for a game his son built for fun, calling the character cute and saying it makes him want to play.

The creator keeps producing airplane-themed explainer shorts in different styles with Opus 5.5, saying anyone can now make such videos with almost no effort and that it has become addictive.

The author tried Opus 5.5's graphics generation for Flywheel Studio and was pleased with the resulting visual.

In a two-minute short, every line is drawn and erased by code and the score is generated live, all made with Opus 5.5, the author says.

The author shares GTA-style game footage generated with Opus 5.5, joking that it can be built before GTA 6 ships.

The author accidentally generated one motion design video with Sonnet 5 and another with Opus 5.5, and asks readers to guess which one Opus made.

The author says Opus 5.5 made a complete Three.js game in 8 hours using 58% of the weekly quota on the $20 plan, with only three Meshy-made models (boat, weapon, bed) imported.

The author says all the 3D game content and the mascot in the video were generated by Opus 5.5 in roughly one hour.

The author used Opus 5.5 with HyperFrames to make a three-minute animated short condensing a classic software engineering book.

The author handed Donald's prompt, Midjourney and a moodboard to Opus 5.5 and woke up 12 hours later to a finished music video, and the post breaks down the moodboard and prompt approach.