A-TIER technique
Claude Opus 5.5 to Blender — 3D animation built entirely as code
100k ft — What is this?
Claude Opus 5.5 to Blender — 3D animation built entirely as code
50k ft — Why care?
Claude Opus 5.5 wrote everything: a web mock of the After Effects UI, a Python script that builds the Blender scene, the character animation, plus the music and sound effects. Blender rendered 360 frames on GPU in about 15 minutes and FFmpeg stitched the video. Full prompt is comment-gated.
10k ft — Key takeaways
• Audio and SFX can also be generated as code
• Have the LLM emit a Blender Python script instead of using a video model
• Render frames in Blender and assemble with FFmpeg
5k ft — Tools & techniques
After Effects, Blender, Claude, FFmpeg, Python
Blender Python scripting, procedural animation
1k ft — Deep-dive / try it
Comment "Blender" for the free guide and prompts
Transcript excerpt
What if I told you that I made this 3D animation without ever opening Blender? And no, this isn't from an AI video model like Vio or C-dance. Claudeobas5.5 wrote the whole thing as code. It built the After Effects interface as a webpage. It wrote a Python script that builds the 3D scene in Blender. It animated this little guy hopping across the buttons, and it even made the music and every single sound effect from scratch. Then, Blender rendered all 360 frames on my GPU in about 15 minutes, and FFmpeg stitched them into the video that you're watching right now. So if you want the full guide with the setup and the exact prompt to just paste into Claude, comment Blender, and I'll send it over.
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