Five-step guide to recreating the viral Opus 5.5 showreel

qibaz @QibazXOriginally posted 2026.10.03

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you can make the viral Opus 5.5 showreel in five steps the one-prompt clips on your feed came out of Claude code. here is the full setup and what happens after you hit enter you need a paid claude plan. pro at $20 a month is the cheapest way in and it includes claude code 1. install Claude code. it runs on macOS, linux and windows, and the installer is a single line from anthropic's site 2. make an empty folder and open it in your terminal. the code, the frames and the final video all land there 3. start Claude code and pick Opus 5.5 as the model 4. set the effort to max. Opus 5.5 starts at medium in Claude code, and the viral runs use xhigh or max 5. paste the prompt and add one line telling it where the video goes: "make a dynamic 15-second motion graphics video that shows what an incredible motion designer you are, like it's your showreel for a résumé. go all out. render it to showreel.mp4 at 1920x1080, 60 fps. install whatever you need for rendering" from there it runs on its own. Opus writes the whole video as code in one html file, with a function that paints the exact frame for any moment. it installs a headless browser and ffmpeg, captures 900 frames for 15 seconds at 60 fps and stitches them into a video this is why it has to be Claude code: it renders, checks its own frames and fixes what's off. every render comes out identical, so a fix is one edited line and a re-render 15-20 minutes later the finished video is in the folder. want sound? ask in the same prompt and Opus composes the track in code, no samples, every cut on the beat how to make yours look different, what it costs and what this means for motion designers: read in the article below

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