I had Opus 5.5 make a music video in a traditional hand-drawn 2D style, entirely in code

I've seen a lot of folks make videos with Claude that are lyrics heavy with crisp motion graphics, however I wanted to see if I can get it to do the opposite and make something more similar to traditional 2D hand-drawn animation. I've always loved the colored pencil line boil look and thought it’s something Claude might actually be able to handle since it keeps the shot feeling alive without complex character animations. As for how it was made: • Every shot is a 2D cut-out puppet written as code and drawn as SVGs: his face, his hands, the bed, the car, the blinds etc. • The colored-pencil-on-black-paper look comes from procedural hatching and paper-grain filters. It's animated "on twos" (12 drawings a second) like traditional 2D animation, with the pencil lines boiling in every frame. • The main character is built from a model sheet in head units, so he stays on-model from every angle. • It was rendered with Remotion in React, after many rounds of back and forth where I told Claude exactly what I wanted. What Claude struggled with most was hands and perspective. On the first few tries, the hands came out mangled and wrong. What finally worked was having it look up real references (including photos of my own hands) and explaining in detail how hands work: how they're built, what they look like, and how they move. After five or six rounds of that, the hands finally looked right. The song was generated in about 30 rounds with Suno, from a lyrics draft I wrote and then shaped into something actually decent with Claude's help. For the meaning, I've always felt AI can be weaponized to prey on our deepest emotions and desires, and I'd argue addiction to the next token is a real thing. Loneliness can really mess you up, and there are corporations and bad actors more than willing to make a quick buck off it through AI companions. Also, just for clarity: I'm a musician myself and have written and produced songs in various DAWs over the years, so I know what goes into producing a song like this. However, this is kind of my first foray into AI music, and I gotta say, the speed at which you can iterate is truly bananas. I'm still a bit conflicted on what actually counts as "art" here, but never before have I been able to see the style, vibe and emotions I was going for come together so quickly. This took me about five days. In the past, the song alone would have taken me two weeks to a month, minimum. There's a higher quality version of this on Youtube if you want to watch it there: youtube.com/watch