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# “Claude Opus 5.5 can (finally) generate motion graphics 16 motion graphics in Claude…”

Charlie Hills (@charliejhills), X, 2026-09-26.
Source: https://x.com/charliejhills/status/2103893708550914076

## Archived text

> Claude Opus 5.5 can (finally) generate motion graphics
> 
> 16 motion graphics in Claude Code (my 3 steps):
> 
> 1. Pick one motion, like a chart that morphs.
> 2. Show Claude a reference and name every state.
> 3. Ask for HTML and SVG, then fix it round by round.
> 
> Download them all here:
> 
> https://charliehills.substack.com/p/opus-55-motion-graphics
> 
> Repost ♻️ to help someone in your network.
> 
> > Quoting @charliejhills: Anthropic just published its official prompting guide for Opus 5.5.
> > 
> > If you're still writing prompts the way you did for Opus 5, you're paying more and getting less.
> > 
> > Here's what changed 👇
> > 
> > 1. Default to medium effort
> > Medium on 5.5 already outperforms high on Opus 5, at a lower cost. Maxing it out by habit just burns tokens.
> > 
> > 2. Drop "think step by step"
> > Reasoning is built in now. The model decides how much thinking a task needs, so asking it to think harder adds nothing.
> > 
> > 3. A check-in isn't a finish line
> > On long runs, it sends progress updates along the way. If it stops to report, tell it to keep going.
> > 
> > 4. Fence off anything you paste
> > Put emails, docs, and web text in clearly labeled sections or tags. That way it can tell your instructions apart from the material it's working on.
> > 
> > 5. Retire your image workarounds
> > Those custom chart readers and OCR steps you built are probably dead weight. It reads screenshots, diagrams, and charts accurately on its own.
> > 
> > 6. For design work, name what you don't want
> > "Make it unique" gets you generic. "No purple gradients, no centered hero, no emoji icons" gets you something different. It follows specific bans much better than vague direction.
> > 
> > ♻️ Repost to save someone a few API bills.

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