A week after Opus 5.5, 8 of GitHub's top 10 are video and animation — a film made only with code, 'OPUSCAR 98'
X (Twitter) creator 鸟哥 (@NFTCPS) wrote about what changed on GitHub in the week after Claude Opus 5.5 launched: of the week's 10 hottest repos, 8 were video or animation related.
What people are building
- Music video (MV) production
- Short film production
- 3D games from a single line of prompt
Standout case: Lemo-Opuscar
- 43 film styles, each finished as a short built only from code
- Pick a style, bring your own story, and a coding agent directs the film
- Newly added styles: copperplate engraving, sci-fi hologram HUD, 1950s mid-century cartoon, silkscreen travel poster
Special screening: OPUSCAR 98
- A 6 minute 25 second film covering 98 years of award-winning pictures, 1927 to 2025
- A single character, Clawd, walks through 98 winners, each redrawn in a style that suits that film
- Every frame, note and cut was made by code written by Claude Opus 5.5
What it means
AI writing code is no longer the point: code itself is becoming the video production tool, and that shift is now clear. If you are a creator interested in automating video production, this is worth studying.
💡 XCONDA tip: borrow the approach of encoding direction per style, and the 98 visual style references, as material for your own XCONDA video generation workflow.