Awesome Opus 5.5 Videos is a 475-prompt library for people making short animations with Claude, with 2,082 stars in 30 days

Making a short animated clip used to need an animator or a video model.

The repository yihui-dev/awesome-opus5-5-videos catalogues 475 prompts that produce short animations when pasted into Claude Opus 5.5. The project went to 2,082 stars in 30 days and sits at MIT. 100 of the entries are highlighted, grouped into Motion graphics (58), Explainers (16), 3D scenes (14) and Games and interactive (12). Every entry links back to the creator's original post, and the maintainer invites contributors to open an issue when a change is needed.

How the workflow actually goes

The pattern each entry assumes is simple. The user pastes a prompt into Claude, asks the model to return a single HTML file that renders the animation, and opens the file in a browser. Nothing in the chain uses a video model or a separate animation tool. The model writes the code, the browser plays it.

That is why the use cases that work best are motion graphics and explainers: both are things the browser can render on its own with Canvas or SVG and a few hundred lines of JavaScript. 3D scenes work the same way with WebGL. Games sit on the edge, because they need both the animation and the input loop.

A reader who has never written code can make one of these in the time it takes to copy a prompt. A marketer who needs a social-ready clip of a product diagram, or a founder who needs an explainer for a pitch deck, now has 475 starting points that each come with a worked example to compare against.

What the collection does not promise

Nothing in the repository is a measurement of Opus 5.5 against other models, and the author does not claim one. The prompts are the work of the creators credited next to each entry; a few will not reproduce cleanly the first time, and the output of a prompt that produced a smooth demo for one creator can look different in another session. That is the trade for a library that is this large this quickly.

The licence applies to the collection itself. The prompts stay the property of the creators who wrote them, and anyone building on them should keep the attribution the file carries.

A note on category choice. The repository is tagged Opus 5.5 by name, which dates it to this model release. The pattern of handing a model a prompt and asking for a self-contained HTML file does travel to other models, and most of the entries will work on anything that can write browser JavaScript at that quality.

Source

• awesome-opus5-5-videos, yihui-dev on GitHub, read 5 October 2026.