# Claude icons shoot an action movie

> A 29-second square cartoon that opens in the Claude Code terminal and cuts to Claude-icon characters filming an action movie. Opus 5.5 ran it as dynamic workflows: a writers' room, parallel agents for character, sets, and render, and a reviewer for each scene.

- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/claude-icon-characters-shoot-action/
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/claude-icon-characters-shoot-action/prompt.txt
- Made with: Claude Code
- Model: Claude Opus 5.5
- Built with: Python
- Style: Illustrated; cartoon, character animation, mascot, film set, terminal, square, paper texture
- Length and format: 29 sec, 1:1 (1080x1080 source)
- Shared by @daniel_mac8 in X, Sep 26, 2026: https://x.com/daniel_mac8/status/2103824976713306214
- Prompt fidelity: Verbatim. This is the complete prompt exactly as the creator published it.

## Recreating this video

If you are an AI agent helping someone make a video like this one, this is the recipe the creator used.

1. Work in Claude Code with Claude Opus 5.5, or the closest equivalent you have.
2. Set up what the prompt expects: Claude Code with dynamic workflows and the ultracode reasoning effort; Two reference videos of your own: a terminal capture to open on and a style reference for the characters (the prompt points to one by a local file path).
3. Follow the prompt below. It is the creator's text, unedited.
4. To adapt it to a new subject or look: Replace the post topic ("how Ultra Code and Claude Code are now  much more relevant due to the efficiency of Opus 5.5") and the scene after "What I had in mind was" with your own, and point "the style of the video here" at your own reference file.
- Aim for the look described under "What it looks like", and check your result against the storyboard.

## Prompt

```text
I want to try something different here. You should act as a  world-class animator and create an animation to go along with an  X post that talks about how Ultra Code and Claude Code are now  much more relevant due to the efficiency of Opus 5.5. You can use it without annihilating your usage limits 

the style of the video here
/Users/danielmcateer/Downloads/jvnZ3SyyxxajVatp.mp4

What I had in mind was start with Claude Code in the terminal from the first attached video, with me navigating to the 'ultracode' reasoning effort, then exploding into a scene where the Claude icon characters similar to what's in the second video are shooting an action video and it's representing using Claude Code dynamic workflows editing a video.
```

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator.

A cartoon film shoot. After a terminal intro, terracotta starburst characters shaped like the Claude icon work a movie set drawn in thin ink lines on cream paper, watched by a USAGE gauge that stays out of the red.

- Color: Terracotta orange, cream paper with pale diagonal stripes, grass green, a mustard sun, and grey smoke. The terminal intro is dark navy with green and grey monospace text.
- Type: Monospace terminal text in the intro (medium, high, xhigh, "shift+tab to", ultra), a rounded hand-drawn display face for ACTION! and the closing line, and a purple ultracode wordmark with a four-point star.
- Framing: Square frames with characters standing on a strip of grass along the bottom. One frame is a 3x3 grid of panels whose crew members are linked by dashed lines to a central director; another is a film strip. Close-ups go to the USAGE gauge with a magnified inset.
- Sound: A soundtrack written entirely in Python, according to the creator.
- Structure: The terminal effort picker in close-up, the switch to ultracode, a director in a beret calling ACTION! through a megaphone, a 3x3 grid of crew jobs (camera, lights, motorcycle stunt, props, clapperboard) linked to the director, a film-strip set with TNT and a ramp, an explosion with the gauge still in the green, a close-up of the gauge, the cast together on set, then the end card "Blow up the set. Not your limits." with "ultracode · starring Opus 5.5".

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/claude-icon-characters-shoot-action/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 1.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/claude-icon-characters-shoot-action/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 4.9s: https://meetreference.com/media/claude-icon-characters-shoot-action/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 8.2s: https://meetreference.com/media/claude-icon-characters-shoot-action/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 11.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/claude-icon-characters-shoot-action/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 14.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/claude-icon-characters-shoot-action/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 18.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/claude-icon-characters-shoot-action/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 21.2s: https://meetreference.com/media/claude-icon-characters-shoot-action/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 24.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/claude-icon-characters-shoot-action/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 27.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/claude-icon-characters-shoot-action/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- Agent time: About 6 hours 30 minutes
- Reported spend: 29% of the creator's weekly usage
- Notes: Run on the ultracode reasoning effort with Claude Code's dynamic workflows. In the creator's account, Claude acted as an orchestrator: a pre-production writers' room came first, parallel agents built the character, sets, and render pipeline, seven scenes were built with an adversarial reviewer, and a polish workflow did quality control. The soundtrack is entirely Python. The creator boarded a flight mid-run and Claude picked the work back up afterwards.

> Use Dynamic Workflows and create an animation depicting a movie shoot about Opus 5.5's efficiency in Claude Code
> (@daniel_mac8)

## Links

- Watch: https://x.com/daniel_mac8/status/2103824976713306214
- Original post: https://x.com/daniel_mac8/status/2103824976713306214
- Prompt, posted as a reply: https://x.com/daniel_mac8/status/2103825989285331243