Claude Code can now make videos, here’s how

Claude Code can now generate full, professional-looking animations from plain-English prompts—without manually building timelines or wrestling with animation software. The practical breakthrough is that Remotion, a framework for programmatic video creation, has released “agent skills,” letting AI coding agents plug into Remotion and output React-based animation code that renders into real video. The result is that marketing videos—like the ones demonstrated—can be assembled by typing instructions, with the system handling the underlying animation logic frame by frame.

At the core is Remotion’s approach: video is built as code. Instead of dragging assets around in a GUI, creators define sequences and components that place elements over time, similar to a timeline in editing tools. When development runs, a local preview lets users scrub through the animation in real time. When rendering, each frame is screenshot and stitched into an MP4 using FFmpeg. Because Remotion treats animations as React components, AI agents can generate structured code rather than trying to operate complex interfaces like After Effects or Premiere Pro—areas where coding-focused agents typically struggle.

The “agent skills” layer matters because it standardizes how agents learn tool-specific patterns. These skills are instruction files that use progressive disclosure: only the relevant parts of the skill load into context when a task matches the description. That keeps prompts lean and prevents wasting tokens on unrelated capabilities. The skill is described as containing Remotion API patterns, component conventions, best practices for animations, and reference documentation for topics such as 3D audio captions. Since skills are positioned as an open standard, the same Remotion skill can work across multiple agents (including Claude Code, Open Code, and others) as long as they support the skills format.

The workflow shown is built around a setup that’s mostly copy-paste. Developers start from remotion.dev, use an npx create command to scaffold a blank Remotion project, add Tailwind, and enable agent skills. Then they install the Remotion skill via a skills.sh command (hosted by Vercel), choosing whether to install it per-project or globally. After that, Claude Code is run inside the project folder, and prompts are organized into subdirectories so each animation stays contained.

Best results depend on how prompts are written. The demonstrated guidance emphasizes starting with a clear storyboard, iterating through multiple smaller prompts rather than attempting a one-shot build, keeping compositions modular with reusable components (intros, transitions, outros), and providing high-quality assets (sprites for games, product photos for marketing). In the examples, the first animation required substantial generation time—on the order of minutes—because the agent had to author many React components and register them into the Remotion project. Subsequent prompts can be faster and can modify details like gradients or timing.

Overall, the pitch is straightforward: AI can already build products, but Remotion + agent skills shifts marketing video production into the same prompt-driven workflow. Instead of hiring animators or learning complex tools, teams can iterate on video concepts by typing instructions and letting code generate the animation structure programmatically.