Lemo-Opuscar is a Claude Code plugin that makes short films by writing code, in 43 named styles, no video model

A founder who says "make a 45-second film in the watercolor style about the coffee farm my family runs" and walks away for an hour can come back to a finished short film, with music and narration, written as code rather than generated by a video model. Lemo-Opuscar is a Claude Code plugin released by the creator Lemomo that does exactly that, and the project repository is at 1,054 stars in nine days under a public domain declaration, pushed today.

43 named film styles, no video generation model

The plugin ships with 43 film styles, grouped by family. Watercolor Brush, Chinese Ink Wash, Risograph Print, Woodcut, Copperplate Engraving, Swiss Motion Graphics, 60s Spy Title Sequence, Art Deco, Blueprint, 1930s Rubber Hose Cartoon, 80s Cel Anime, 1920s Silent Film, 16-bit Pixel RPG, Low-poly Isometric Island, Tilt-Shift Miniature and Glass Product Render are examples of the range the project covers. The repository's own note states "the styles are tuned for Opus 5.5; other models may not reproduce them."

No video generation model is in the pipeline. Every frame is a page rendered by code the agent writes: canvas, WebGL, SVG, GSAP. The music is pulled from free sample libraries and the narration is text-to-speech. The repository's own description says plainly: "No video generation, no stock footage." The default output is 1920 by 1080 pixels at 24 frames per second.

What a film costs to make

The project page states, under "Before you start," that "a film takes an agent about 30 to 60 minutes and a fair amount of tokens." The dependencies are Node 20 or above, ffmpeg, and Python 3.11 or above, which the agent installs itself. The plugin reads three guides at run time: DIRECTOR.md for story, sound, rhythm, camera and self-checks; TECHNIQUE.md for frame rendering, voice, music and mixing; and the chosen styles/<style>/STYLE.md, which carries what the style looks and sounds like.

The agent asks the user once, up front, about anything it cannot decide about the topic, whether the user has their own voice or music assets, and whether to show a storyboard first. If a storyboard is requested, the agent stops once to show key shots in the real style before going to the finished film.

The creator's own feature

The repository leads with a longer film the creator made themselves, called OPUSCAR 98. The piece is six minutes thirty-one seconds long and walks through every Best Picture winner from 1927 to 2025, each one redrawn in a style that fits the film. The project page states that "every frame, every note and every cut was written in code by Claude Opus 5.5." The MP4 is available in the repository's releases, and a browser version is hosted on the project's GitHub Pages site.

The styles added most recently are Copperplate Engraving, Sci-fi Hologram HUD, Mid-century Cartoon and Silkscreen Travel Poster. The project is published by Lemomo, who is listed on the repository as the only author of every included film.

Source

• Lemo-Opuscar repository on GitHub
• OPUSCAR 98, the project's feature film