Claude Opus 5.5 Generates Animated Films by Writing Code Instead of Pixels

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, introducing a method for creating polished animated films from natural-language prompts by generating code that renders frame-by-frame into MP4, rather than generating pixels directly. The approach bypasses traditional video generation and instead leverages Claude's coding abilities to write Three.js, Canvas, SVG, or Remotion animation code that executes and outputs professional-grade motion graphics in minutes.