How to create viral animated videos with Claude Code (for non-technical people)
I'm going to show you how to put Claude Code on steroids so it creates viral animated product videos for you that used to cost $1000s of dollars.
I'm as non technical as potato, so this is a beginners guide.
If you don't live under a rock, you saw that Remotions video agent announcement went giga viral on X:
Cool terminal animations, 3D transforms, spring physics.
I'll also share the exact way that Remotion prompted their own animation video that got 10s of millions of views.
You don't need video editing experience. If you can type a sentence, you can do this.
10 minutes from now you'll have Claude building animated promos on command.
Step 1. Setting it up in your IDE
Open Claude Code inside VSCODE/Cursor and run:
npx skills add remotion-dev/skills
This teaches Claude how to write video code. Think of it like giving Claude a cheat sheet for Remotion's syntax and best practices.
Then:
npx create-video@latest
This creates a new video project folder with everything you need.
Pick Hello World template when it asks (this is for beginners)
Remotion Studio opens at localhost:3001.
That's where you preview your animations in real-time.
One cleanup step:
your folder will have config files for different AI tools (Cursor, Gemini, OpenCode). Delete those. Keep only agent.claude.md so Claude isn't confused by conflicting instructions.
Step 2 let Claude analyze your product
one way to do it, is to directly point it to your website/app files:
"Look at /src/pages/index.tsx.
What components would work as animated videos?"
Or your live site:
"Go to myproduct. com. What sections would make good promos?"
Claude studies the structure, suggests what to animate.
Now it's time to prompt more details:
Step 3 the detailed approach (prompting example)
The following workflow is an example by Remotion:
Start basic:
"Create a macOS terminal window, 1280x1000px, light theme. Blinking cursor."
Adjust:
"Remove background. Bigger font."
"Add margin, keep transparent."
Add typing:
"Typewriter animation that types 'npx skills add remotion-dev/skills'"
"Cursor blinks while idle."
Add depth:
"3D rotation. 20 degrees X and Y."
Too much:
"10 degrees each axis."
Add movement:
"Rotate Y axis from 10 to -10 degrees over video length."
Terminal rocks while typing.
Add entrance:
"Slide from bottom. Spring animation. No bounce."
Claude can run actual commands:
"Run 'npx skills install remotion-dev/skills' yourself. Add output as terminal content."
Claude executes it, sees the ASCII logo, adds real output to the animation.
"Stagger lines. One every 50ms."
Exit:
"When done, flip terminal toward camera. Rotate X axis. Transform origin at bottom."
Branding:
"New composition. Remotion logo, plus sign, Claude Code logo."
15 minutes total.
the hands-off approach
Magnus Müller posted this "vibe" workflow, it's also worth trying.
export
When you're happy with the preview, turn it into a video file:
npx remotion render MyComposition --output promo.mp4
Replace MyComposition with your composition name (you'll see it in the left sidebar of Remotion Studio).
This spits out an MP4 you can upload anywhere.
what actually works
Anything with structure.
Terminals typing out commands. Screenshots of your product zooming and transitioning between states. Text that appears letter by letter or numbers counting up.
Basically:
if it has clean edges and predictable movement, Claude handles it.
where it falls apart
Characters walking around or fluid organic shapes.
Anything that needs frame-by-frame finesse.
Also: don't describe 10 things at once. Claude gets confused and elements end up in random places. One change, check it, next change.
few things I learned
Tell Claude your video has three parts before you start:
intro, main content, outro. Helps it organize the code better.
If you want to use your own images or logos, drop them in the /public folder and tell Claude the exact path.
"Use public/logo.png for the intro."
Budget time for back-and-forth.
Each iteration takes 2-3 minutes while Claude thinks and writes code.
Now have fun with :)
P.S. I'm going to do an in depth Claude Code for Content/Marketing workshop soon. Content creation, landing pages, keyword analysis, everything you need as a marketer in 2026. You can pre-register to reserve a spot (no payment needed)