I gave Claude Opus 5.5 an MP3 and a few lines of art direction. It built a 50-shot painted music video entirely in code, with no video or image model

The video is attached. The interesting part isn't the video itself, it's how it got made. **\*\*What I actually did\*\*** I uploaded a song I made in Suno and sent around 15 short messages over the whole project. Things like "neon synthwave," "make it more like a storyboard," "use this GitHub repo as a reference for the art direction," "up the clarity," and "remove the lyrics." Several of those messages were just "continue." **\*\*What the model did\*\*** No image or video generation model was involved at any point. Claude Opus 5.5 wrote everything as code: \- Analyzed the audio (beats, tempo, energy, a 32-band spectrum) and pulled the lyrics Suno embeds in the MP3's metadata \- Installed an offline speech aligner and matched each lyric word to the vocals, so story beats land on the lines they illustrate \- Wrote the story: someone awake at 3 AM whose racing thoughts are little neon creatures, which the song talks down to sleep. 9 chapters, about 50 shots, cuts snapped to the…