Claude Opus 5.5 generated an entire music video; open-source template renders 11s in 47s on M3 Max
xiaohu · x · 2026-09-24
A developer used Claude Opus 5.5 inside Claude Code to generate an entire music video for "I'm Upping My P(doom)", open-sourcing the code and templates (400 stars on GitHub).
Key details:
- The project took two generations: the first (legacy/) on Opus 5.5 (Medium), everything else on Opus 5.5. No scene ideas were specified — only the Clawd character design and a request for interesting visuals and transitions per lyric.
- ANIMATIONGUIDE.md and STORYBOARD.md were written by Opus itself: the former to brief parallel subagents, the latter as a post-mortem after the first generation.
- Rendering an 11-second sample took 47 seconds on an M3 Max. The author shares a two-step storyboard-then-code prompt workflow plus a full-MV prompt.
- A newer, more reliable general base for making Claude animations is also available.
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