Opus 5.5 is pretty good at motion graphics

I asked Opus 5.5 to make a short animation of a cat chasing a bird, with the look of a risograph print. The result was PURRSUIT, a 25-second animation in four ink colours, with its own soundtrack.

The whole thing was made with code. It didn't use an image or video generation model for any of the frames.

The drawings use canvas, separated into ink plates. A WebGL2 shader adds the print grain and slight misalignment between colours that give it the riso look. The soundtrack is generated from code too, without a stock track or a library of loops. Altogether, the scene code is about 87 KB across a handful of files.

That's a pretty good result for a request about a cat and a bird.

Using it in IMABIRD

Opus 5.5 is available as Smart in the IMABIRD Agent. You can ask it to make a title, lower third, logo reveal or animated chart, and it will write the scene and add it to your timeline.

You can keep editing the graphic by asking for changes. For the cat animation, that could mean slowing down a movement or changing the bird's colour. For a title, you might want larger text or a longer pause before it leaves the screen. The scene remains editable, so you can work through those changes in the same conversation.

The Agent also renders frames from the graphics it makes and checks them. That gives it a chance to catch problems with text size, placement and readability, then revise the scene. It's still worth watching the animation in your video to see how the timing feels alongside everything else.

Smart costs more than Cheap, so I wouldn't use it for every trim or caption change. It's useful when you want to spend some time on a graphic and work through a few versions. PURRSUIT is an example of how far that can go, including the soundtrack.