Opus 5.5 can do wonders when you give it a little help

I'd seen a lot of the "I asked Claude to make me an explainer video and it built this from scratch" posts and wanted to try it myself for my side project, but I don't like using purely generated imagery or audio. I gave Opus 5.5 access to a bunch of assets I've gathered over the years (mostly for game dev) and I was impressed with the result! Claude wrote the script, the shot list, chose the models and sound effects, and obviously built the whole workflow for rendering it. It gave me animatics to review at various stages, so I was able to tweak the script, tell it when it had screwed up a pose, or alter placement. I also had it working with a separate session on my laptop where I have my test phone connected which it directed to get the phone footage it needed. What I was most impressed with was the animation: the walk cycles are from an animation pack, but everything else was posed and tweened by Claude directly. Some things I learned: \- Claude isn't always good at placing…