Claude Code 4.8 helped me to create basic UI after effects animations from scratch!

Yay my first non spammy post! anyways. This is the first time that i will say that claude code has surpassed codex for me. Claude Opus 4.8 is powerful. As always, it's set to highest thinking mode. The core driver for helping create these simple animations is via an open source mcp! [https://github.com/Dakkshin/after-effects-mcp](https://github.com/Dakkshin/after-effects-mcp) This is still a work in progress project i would say. It provided the necessary bridge and the model rarely used the tool set in the mcp. I ended up letting claude write tons of custom scripts to help me achieve the above animations. Four different animations. Node based, prompt bar and video editor animations. General workflow: Spawn a deep dive agent for UI animation recreation General prompt direction on animation needed Iterate using extract frame from After Effects for clean iterative animation refinement Let claude 4.8 do its thing 😉 Ask any questions you want! Will try and answer. Not a single…