I made a 45-second hand-painted animated short-film with Opus 5.5

No animation software. Every brushstroke, watercolour wash and sound effect is generated in code.

Does Opus 5.5 absolutely cook in one shot, not really ? It's good but still needs a good supporting project. 

The numbers:
• 62.7M tokens (96% cache reads)
• 163 model calls
• ~$34 at API list price
• ~6¾ hrs start to finish, ~1½ hrs of it hands-on
• 12-minute render on a laptop