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

The author shows a voxel self-portrait animation made by Claude Opus 5.5, praising its SOTA 3D understanding and the animation and detail quality.

The author used Claude Opus 5.5 to one-shot a pixel-style animation entirely in code in about 25 minutes, and says such models are now good enough at pixel art.

After several video models failed, the author tried Claude Opus 5.5 on a Blender 3D simulation and got the best take on the first try, citing strong focus and previz understanding.

A side-by-side data labeling test on the same street video, checking whether each model's overlays track people, buildings and objects as the camera moves.

A designer says they treated Opus 5.5 as an effects tool and produced a finished beach-effects video in a single evening.

With one prompt, Opus 5.5 drove Blender to make a claymation, conceiving the visuals and sound itself, and the result came out far better than expected.

The author says Opus 5.5 generated this short animation entirely in HTML and JavaScript in just two minutes, with the finished video attached.

The author used Opus 5.5 with Blender to generate a Homelander character animation, with a video showing the modeling and camera work.

The author asked Opus 5.5 to draw ChatGPT-6 Astra with no image or video model, producing a painting video generated entirely from code.

The author says the video was generated fully by Opus 5.5 and is impressed by its vision capabilities, with plans to combine them with fal video models.

higgsfield shows Claude Opus 5.5 recreating a ChronoVolume visual effect from a reference in 26 minutes at under $5 in token cost.

The author describes a real-time TV companion idea and says Opus 5.5 generated a demo video for the concept.