Opus 5.5 · Explainer

Animated short film titled What is the Purpose of Life

Creator notes

Someone used Claude Code with Opus 5.5 to make a full animated short film called "What is the purpose of life?" from a single one-shot prompt in about 1 hour 20 minutes, spending just $3.21 on OpenRouter APIs. → Opus orchestrated 8 different OpenRouter APIs, with most of the $3.21 going to Nano Banana 2 images and text to voice → The Opus side cost about $20 in API terms, or roughly 10% of one 5-hour quota on a Max plan → Posted as a true one-shot with no edits, and the creator says a few things still need fixing → The full prompt is shared in the post so anyone can rerun it in Claude Code Reddit link: