As I said earlier, people have been creating (or should I say writing?) all sorts of videos using Claude, no matter which plan they’re on. The trend started after Anthropic released Opus 5.5 back on September 22, 2026. Within a few days, my X feed was bombarded with creators testing it for motion graphics.

The one everybody shared was Stephan Livera’s showreel. Interestingly, his prompt wasn’t anything specific. He just asked Claude to show how good a motion designer it is. Though I don’t have much knowledge of motion graphics, for a layman, the output seemed quite exciting.And that was like the trendsetter. People started making 30-second product videos on the $20 Pro plan, video explainers out of viral threads, and even a complete launch film for a calendar app that doesn’t exist.

You probably know about video generation models already. That’s not how Claude works, though. It can’t generate realistic videos. What it does is write a small program for your animation, run it, and save the output as a video file.So, you don’t really need Claude Motion to do this. A regular chat, even on the web version, can handle this, since Claude can run code on its own. In my case, I prompted it with some direction to create an animation, and it gave me the MP4 output for download.

My setup is simple. I use Opus 5.5 at Medium effort. The first prompt is the big one, and it’s where I describe everything in detail: the length, the style, the scenes, and the mood. That single prompt usually does 60% to 70% of the work.

After that, I spend three or four smaller prompts on tweaks. Slow down this scene. Change that color. Swap the style of the ending. Along with a few edits of my own, I have a usable video in about four rounds.That said, keep your expectations in check. You won’t get real footage, realistic people, or a voice-over out of this. Longer animations also use more of your usage limit. Lately, I’ve added Remotion to the mix for more control, but for most short clips, the plain chat is enough.

The first thing I tried with Claude’s video-making abilities was to create some stickman animated videos for my YouTube channel. I’ve been wanting to make stickman videos for a long time, but I can’t draw or animate. This was my gateway to both animation and experimenting with Claude. You can see an example here.

I wanted to make explainer videos on programming and computer science. So, I used Claude to generate animation, visuals, and motion graphics that follow a 2D pencil-drawn style, following the script. What surprised me was how well Claude handled the basics. It gave motion to the stickman figures, added vibration animation to the surrounding elements, and overall, nailed the video effects to build a nice story.

It wasn’t polished on the first try. There were text overlaps, weird limb movement, and sometimes things going out of frame. With some small tweaks, I reached a quite workable version.

Make a 15-second, 16:9 (1920×1080) motion graphics promo celebrating  20th anniversary. Audience: tech readers on social media. Story in four beats: (1) "2006" appears in a retro early-web style with the old  logo ; (2) a fast montage of tech evolving (CRT monitor → laptop → phone → AI chat bubble) while a year counter ticks up to 2026; (3) the old logo morphs into the current logo ; (4) end card: "20 years of explaining technology." Use the brand colors from the attached logos. Smooth, confident pacing. Don't add any sound effects or music.