Claude Opus 5.5 burned 1B tokens (~$508) to draw a fan MV frame by frame
jianchi89 · reddit · 2026-11-02
Developer shiro used Opus 5.5 in Claude Code to build a complete fan MV for "world.execute(me);", open-sourced on GitHub.
- 3m37s, 13,017 frames at 4K 60fps across 87 shots and 12,600 lines of code; every frame drawn with Canvas 2D plus WebGL post-processing — no editing software or stock footage
- Rendered frame-by-frame in a headless browser and muxed with ffmpeg; Claude handled storyboarding, animation, beat-syncing and the thumbnail, with character silhouettes from ChatGPT imagegen
- Total: 1.01B tokens processed (975M cache read, 31.6M cache write, 6.6M output) at $508 cost
- 160,000 video frames and 8,900 stills were rendered during development for debugging
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