I Made This Viral Reel Using ONLY Remotion & Claude Code

Summary

The video is a hands-on tutorial showing how the creator built a documentary-style Netflix-versus-Blockbuster reel with Remotion and Claude Code, without using After Effects or manually keyframing. Claude Code generates and adjusts the animation code, while the creator reviews the results and fine-tunes each scene.

Workflow and techniques

• Plan around the narration: Write the voiceover first, then break it into about six short lines—roughly one for each scene. Claude Code can help turn those lines into scene choreography and an asset list.
• Assemble layered assets: Combine backgrounds, foreground characters, and other images. Assets can come from image searches, generated images, or asset packs.
• Set up the project and visual treatment: The example uses a vertical 1080 × 1920 composition at 30 fps. A shared film look—including grain, grunge, scan lines, vignette, corner blur, color grading, and gate weave—helps make still images feel more cinematic.
• Work scene by scene: Keep scenes separate and combine them into a master reel once they work. In Remotion Studio, frame numbers provide precise references for requested changes and effects such as motion blur.
• Animate still imagery: Demonstrated techniques include a zoom with a “weld and detach” transition, subtle background and character drift, and parallax, with the character moving faster than the background. A duplicated, darkened, skewed image creates a floor shadow.
• Add and refine effects: Stock smoke footage is screen-blended, adjusted for contrast, and feathered to blend into a scene. Other examples include staggering flying newspapers, swinging a lamp, flickering a highlighted area with hold keyframes, and reusing a scene with a different character and background.
• Finish the audio: The creator uses the ElevenLabs API for the voiceover and sound effects, then adds music.

The tutorial’s takeaway is that this prompt-driven workflow can produce a six-scene reel and can be adapted for other videos. The creator also says the prompts and asset files are available through a free community.

Guide and tutorial topics

1. Storyboarding from a voiceover
2. Prompting Claude Code for scene choreography and assets
3. Setting up a Remotion project and film treatment
4. Animating and refining scenes with frame-based references
5. Adding voiceover, sound effects, and music

Main speaker/source: MoSidd, the video’s creator and tutorial narrator. The reel also includes a separate voiceover narrating the Netflix–Blockbuster story.