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

The author shares a finished animation made with Opus 5.5, calling out the sound mix around 0:09 and the full BGM, with a workflow breakdown in the comments.

The author says giving Opus 5.5 a reference video and a new topic lets it recreate or imitate the style for an explainer video, and remarks that video models should be worried.

Stephan Livera used Opus 5.5 on the medium setting to make a teaser clip for his podcast.

A user tested Opus 5.5 on video work, finding much of the effort went into timing, scenes, storyboards and a mock timeline, with all VFX and SFX made by AI.

A user says Opus 5.5 is a text model that also produces promo videos from a single prompt, taking over work that used to cost tens of thousands.

A user shares a full launch video soundtrack produced by Opus 5.5 in a single shot, with the finished clip to listen to.

A user's five-year-old nephew wanted a Minecraft-like game starring his toys, and Opus 5.5 produced a first version in an hour.

The author says Claude Opus 5.5 generated this video in a single shot, and shares the clip along with a wallet address.

Given only the prompt "make me an animation to explain why celld earns its place," Opus 5.5 produced a finished animation that the author thought was worth sharing.

The author had GPT-6 draw each frame in p5.js, screenshot them in the background, and combine them with ffmpeg into a music video, but says the result still falls short of Claude Opus 5.5.

Using the same prompt, the author had Opus 5.5 build this video; it took three rounds of feedback rather than one shot, but they still find it impressive.

The author shares gameplay footage of a Splatoon-like game generated by Opus 5.5, with a link to play it directly in the browser.