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

The author used Opus 5.5 inside Devin to edit a favorite movie quote into a video clip, showing the model's hands-on editing output.

A short video arguing AI is pay-to-win, with the entire edit done by Claude Opus 5.5.

Same prompt, Claude Opus 5.5 builds an animated haunted house from scratch in Blender with pure code, comparing Low and Extra High effort on time and cost.

Same prompt for a code-only Blender pirate ship at sunset: solo Sonnet 5.5 took 40 minutes and ~$8.70, while 11 Haiku 5.5 agents took 41 minutes and ~$4.

A free site collecting hundreds of Opus 5.5 motion videos, skills and graphics that can be downloaded and injected into your agents.

A flood-city web game built with Sonnet 5.5 and three.js, where the water is a 12,000-cell shallow-water simulation at 120 steps per second rather than an animation.

Using ElevenLabs for voice, Claude for code and Remotion for rendering, the author got poor results at first, then added a script and storyboard to finish in 5 minutes, adapting to other formats and testing hooks and CTAs.

The author sets worker and review agents against each other before bed and woke up to a browser-playable Nuketown map clone built with Opus 5.5.

Given the same prompt, Opus 5.5 (36 min, ~$7.20) and Sonnet 5.5 (26 min, ~$4.60) each coded an animation of a cute Claude traveling through five worlds with zero assets.

Opus 5.5 was used to build an interactive Sisyphus mountain diorama where you can rotate it, change weather, swap the boulder's material and call lightning, for about $7.86.

A designer's layout gets an animated badge from Magnific and an app built by Opus 5.5, producing a polished reward screen in hours.

Ethan Mollick asked Opus 5.5 to answer his standard image-generation test prompt, an otter on a plane using wifi, and it produced a video instead.