ExplainersRiley Goodside @goodside2026-09-240:30

Animated pelican explains a shell command

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Claude Opus 5.5 generated a 30-second animated video of a pelican on a unicycle explaining a shell command while juggling fish, with synthesized voice from a single prompt on the Claude phone app.

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Create a 30s animated video with sythesized voice where an animated pelican on a unicycle explains the shell command `w | tail -n +3 | cut -d ' ' -f1 | sort -u` with visuals while juggling several fish.

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Tools the creator mentioned

Kokoro TTS

Original post: https://x.com/goodside/status/2103149526244618682

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