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

The author made a video with Opus 5.5 that friends assumed was a paid brand deal, and also shared notes on setting up AI agents for family and friends.

Opus 5.5 acted as director to split storyboards while sub-agents wrote p5.js drawing code, with frames captured and combined via ffmpeg into a hand-drawn MV.

Given a 12-second Seedance 2.5 clip and its prompt, Opus 5.5 running in Devin built its own ffmpeg frame-sampling and audio checks, traced failures to prompt contradictions, rewrote the prompt, and produced an annotated PDF report.

The author says Opus 5.5 built a complete mini-game from a single sentence, including the sound effects and the promo video, and shares a link to try it.

After trying Astra, Sol, SWE-2 and Step, the author says Opus 5.5's first 40-minute cut of a video nearly matched the intended style, with later work limited to detail tweaks and smooth, self-organizing collaboration.

The author had Opus 5.5 produce a 4-minute video explaining OKX's AI product roadmap, calling it unmatched for product videos, and notes that the same prompt in Cursor gave slightly worse results while burning 15% of a ¥20 plan's monthly quota.

The author says the entire STAY video was generated 100% in code, mostly in Devin with Opus 5.5, praising its aesthetic sense and artistic ability.

The author suspects Claude was specifically trained on the pelican-riding-a-bicycle prompt, since Opus 5.5's output is strong enough to include cinematic camera work.

The author asked Opus 5.5 to code and render a 23-second 1080p promo for X Vision, complete with the real logo, product UI mockups and a beat-synced soundtrack.

Given only the prompt "make an animated short about Bitcoin faith," Opus 5.5 produced the finished film in about 30 minutes, generating the sound effects and music itself.

About 7,400 lines of React and TypeScript with Remotion, SVG and Canvas visuals, open-source TTS narration and a Python-synthesized soundtrack, with no stock footage or AI-generated images.

The author had Opus 5.5 model, texture and rig a character in Blender from a concept sheet using only code, then packaged the workflow as a Blender skill for game development.