Read ANIMATION_GUIDE.md, then make a music video for assets/song.mp3 (the lyrics and their timings are in assets/lyrics.txt): work out the tempo and structure yourself, storyboard it, build every shot, check your work with contact sheets, and render out/video.mp4 with the audio.
Make it yours. Point "assets/song.mp3" and "assets/lyrics.txt" at your own song and lyric timings; the rest of the sentence can stay. For a short clip without a song, the kit's own warm-up prompt replaces the music-video request with "make a 15-second video of Clawd trying to catch a butterfly."
Clawd rides a star-whale in watercolour
A two-minute storybook music video in p5.js watercolour in which Clawd rides a star-whale and meets an owl. Opus 5.5 in Claude Code made it from one sentence inside the ClaudeAnimationBase kit: about 2 hours of unattended work, then 49 minutes of rendering.
“I gave Claude Opus 5.5 one prompt in Claude Code and it made this whole music video.”
- Claude Code
- Claude Opus 5.5
- ClaudeAnimationBase
- p5.js
- p5.brush
- Headless Chrome
- FFmpeg
- Suno
- One-shot
- 2h + 49m render
You'll need
- A clone of github.com/JohnHeibel/ClaudeAnimationBase with npm install (the prompt relies on its ANIMATION_GUIDE.md)
- Node.js, Google Chrome, and ffmpeg
- Your song as assets/song.mp3, with lyric timings in assets/lyrics.txt
How it was made
Run on xhigh effort on a Claude Max plan, with no follow-ups. The song "One Prompt" (lyrics by Claude, music by Suno) went in assets/ with its lyric timings beside it. Claude measured the tempo, storyboarded 26 shots, invented an owl and a star-whale, checked every shot on contact sheets, and rendered 2,870 frames. The upload opens with a sped-up view of the process; the music video itself runs from 0:31 to 2:30.
Posted Sep 30, 2026 · YouTube · 4 likes · 224 views · 2 comments
Prompt from: YouTube description, and the creator's companion page
Companion page with the prompt and a how-to guide
Look notesby Reference
A storybook night in watercolour. Clawd, a small orange block with legs, works with a paintbrush among the stars and rides a whale over the hills, while an owl at a laptop watches the same scene on screen.
- Color
- Indigo and violet night washes, cream paper, Clawd's tangerine orange, teal and green hills, butter-yellow stars, and a pink-and-peach sunset in the window.
- Type
- Lyrics only, in small white sans-serif subtitles on a dark translucent box at the bottom center.
- Framing
- Wide, flat tableaux with ink outlines and visible brush texture. Clawd stays small against long horizon lines, and the owl at its desk frames the opening and closing scenes.
- Sound
- The song "One Prompt", with lyrics by Claude and music made with Suno, according to the creator.
- Structure
- An owl at a desk beside a blank laptop, Clawd on a cream page under a paintbrush, Clawd painting stars into a dark sky, riding the star-whale over hills, posing in sunglasses by a tall window panel, back at the owl's desk with the scene now on the laptop, a sunset window full of stars, and an iris shot framing Clawd with a heart.
