10 variants across HyperFrames and Remotion. V3 slows each by 1.35x and pairs every video with its own custom music track plus the existing SFX library.
I always add little 'quality of life' tips to the slides for each week's code for creatives slides.
The one I wanted to add this week was simple: if you've sent a message to claude and it's chugging away and then you send another message, it gets added into a queue that'll be read ONCE claude is done with the current chug.
BUT if you hit escape, it takes your message and sends it right into the current workflow, so it becomes part of whatever claude is already doing.
At this time, I was ALSO working a lot with creating graphics and motion animations with two new tools - hyperframes and remotion.
So i figured, what if I tried to animate this tip.
Here are the results, which are cool and show you what these tools can do AND also here's my process for making them, which is way more important imo.
Below are two tabs - The Gallery shows the animations side by side. The Process tab shows how this actually got built with my literal prompts.
11 agents in parallel.
Wall-clock: roughly 8 minutes for all 10 to finish. Output: 10 MP4s at 1920x1080, 30fps, H.264. Durations 7 to 9 seconds. File sizes ranged from 117KB (line art) to 5MB (particle).
One agent.
First, wrote a UI reference doc straight from the screenshots. Captured the exact colors, fonts, message-box styling, and the verbatim hint text from Alex's terminal ("Press up to edit queued messages" and the post-ESC "Interrupted, What should Claude do instead?" line). That doc became the source of truth.
Then spawned 10 rebuild agents in parallel, each given an explicit five-beat timeline that included a held "queued" state before ESC. Each agent found its own queued visual in its aesthetic lane.
Then a follow-up audio agent re-mixed each video with music ducking during the queued hold, so the suspense reads sonically.
https://opaque-moment-t4p8.here.now/One agent ran the whole chain.
One snag worth noting. ElevenLabs rejected three initial prompts that named real artists or brands (Philip Glass, NYT Podcast, ECM Records). Regenerated with brand-neutral descriptors. Also hit a 429 rate limit at 5 concurrent requests, dropped to 2-wide.
https://mighty-garnet-jm6w.here.now/Added a Process tab with the full timeline, six teaching takeaways, and design-studio-style callouts. Republished.
This rewrite. Stripped the takeaways. Restructured around alternating Alex and Claude blocks so the human-vs-agent split is the visual story.