Short Film · Oct 26, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5 can run a tiny animation factory for you, and almost nobody sets it up
Claude Opus 5.5 can run a tiny animation factory for you,… by Bonsai 🌳, credited to Claude Opus 5.5. Watch the Short Film video and visit the original X post.
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View on XClaude Opus 5.5 can run a tiny animation factory for you, and almost nobody sets it up Every time you prompt "make a cool 20-second video", Claude has to guess the timing, the pacing and what's allowed to change, so you get something close-ish and every revision breaks half of it But once you treat video as code, where every frame is just a function of time, you can set Claude Code up once as a small production line and then simply feed it orders Here's what that line looks like: > The rulebook: a CLAUDE. md with house rules Claude reads every time, so time only comes from useCurrentFrame(), motion from spring() and interpolate(), scenes live in <Sequence>, and CSS animations, Date. now and setTimeout are banned > The order form: a brief template with one action, one before and one after, 15–25 seconds at 30 fps, the key moments, and a list of what must never change > The machine: one Remotion composition with props, so the product name, colors, copy and screenshot swap in…
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