Claude Opus 5.5 doesn't animate anything in a timeline. It writes the animation as code — the scenes, the timing, the type, the audio cues — and then that code has to be rendered into a video file. That single fact is why the output looks different from person to person, and why the last 10% is where most of the work lives.
This page shows what it produces, which styles it's genuinely good at, and what separates a $2 draft from something you'd put in front of a client.
Kinetic typography — 22s · built with Opus 5.5, rendered to 1080p
Geometric logo reveal — 15s · built with Opus 5.5, rendered to 1080p
Stat explainer — 30s · built with Opus 5.5, rendered to 1080p
It's good at anything built from type, shapes and timing. It's weak at anything that needs real footage or lip-sync.
Words that move, cut and scale on the beat. This is the style most of the viral one-prompt videos are using, and it's the one Opus 5.5 is most reliably good at.
Short, punchy openers for a product or channel. 10–15 seconds, high polish, usually the cheapest thing to get right.
Circles, grids and blocks in motion, with a strong palette. Pure code territory — no assets or stock footage needed.
Numbers counting up, bars filling, a narrative over the top. 30–60 seconds. Works well for a launch, a report or a pitch.
Screens and UI screenshots animated into a story, usually 30–60 seconds. Needs real product assets to look convincing.
Audio-reactive shapes and loops. Fun, and it renders fast because there's no footage to composite.
Anything with real people, real footage or lip-sync. Opus 5.5 writes animation code — it doesn't shoot video. Mixing the two needs a different toolchain.
Past about two minutes the pacing starts to sag and scenes drift. The model plans well at 15–60 seconds; longer needs a human edit.
The prompt gets you a working animation. It does not get you a finished film. These are the four things that decide whether the output looks amateur or professional — and all four are after the prompt.
This is the part you're paying for. Anyone can paste a prompt into a coding agent and get a draft — that's free, and it takes an hour. What's missing is the re-timing, the audio alignment, the font fix and a clean export. If you want to do that yourself, I wrote up the whole workflow on the how-to page. If you'd rather not, that's what I do.
Send a brief and I'll build it: a finished 1080p MP4 in 48 hours, two revision rounds included, from $89. Rush delivery in 24 hours is $168.
Both are legitimate. It depends on whether your time or your money is scarcer this week.
| Run it yourself | Have me build it | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | A coding agent subscription plus a few dollars of API | $89 per video, $168 for 24-hour rush |
| Your time | One to several hours, mostly on re-timing, audio sync and fixing the export | None — you write the brief |
| Tools to install | Node, FFmpeg, a rendering framework, and an API key with a spend cap | None |
| What you get | An HTML animation that plays in a browser tab | A finished 1080p MP4 you can upload |
| If it breaks | You debug it | Two revision rounds included |
| Turnaround | Same day, if nothing goes wrong | 48 hours, or 24 with rush |
The free route is genuinely fine if you enjoy this. If you don't, the full workflow is written up here — and if you'd rather skip it entirely, start an order.
Motion graphics made by having Claude Opus 5.5 write the animation itself — as HTML, CSS and JavaScript — rather than editing footage in a timeline. The model writes the scenes, the timing and the audio cues, and the result is then rendered out to a video file.
It's strongest at kinetic typography, logo reveals, geometric and Bauhaus-style shape animation, stat and data explainers, product launch sequences and music visualisers — anything built from type, shapes and timing rather than live action.
Because the model produces a working animation, not a finished film. Production value comes from what happens after: scene timing and pacing, whether the audio stays in sync, how the fonts load, and the render and encode settings. A raw run usually needs a pass on all four.
A finished MP4 at 1080p, ready to upload to YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn or an ad network. 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 are all available — tell me which in the brief.
Yes. Send a brief and I build it with Opus 5.5 and deliver a finished 1080p MP4 within 48 hours, two revision rounds included. From $89, or $168 for 24-hour delivery. See the packages.
