Big Idea

The argument in one line.

Claude Code paired with the Golpo AI plugin lets anyone generate fully voiced, scripted 2D animations from a single text prompt in minutes — collapsing a production workflow that used to require hundreds of dollars and a professional editor into a $20 API call.

Who This Is For

Read if. Skip if.

READ IF YOU ARE…

You make educational or explainer content on YouTube and want animated visuals without hiring an editor.
You already use Claude Code and want to extend it into a video production pipeline.
You are considering automating short-form content creation for Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, or TikTok.
You want to understand the real cost structure of AI animation tools before paying for a plan.

SKIP IF…

You need full creative control over animation style, timing, or custom characters — Golpo generates from prompts, not from keyframe control.
You are not comfortable installing Python, Node.js, and running terminal commands on Windows.

TL;DR

The full version, fast.

Claude Code can generate 2D animations through the Golpo AI plugin, turning a text prompt into a fully voiced, scripted animation in two to three minutes. The setup requires installing Python, Node.js, and Claude desktop, then adding the Golpo plugin via the Claude marketplace and supplying a Golpo API key. The API-only pricing tier costs roughly $2 per minute of video, making a ten-minute animation about $20 — a fraction of the cost of a freelance video editor. The output includes auto-generated voiceover, script, and hand-drawn-style visuals that are tightly synced to audio.

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Chapters

Where the time goes.

00:00 – 01:14

01 · Hook and social proof

Opens with examples of channels earning from AI animations, promises to show the exact method nobody is talking about.

01:14 – 02:37

02 · Install Claude desktop

Browser search for Claude AI, download the desktop app, sign in.

02:37 – 05:46

03 · Install Python

Download Python via install manager, fix PATH conflicts, disable Windows App Execution Aliases that redirect python to Microsoft Store.

05:46 – 06:39

04 · Install Node.js

Download and install Node.js as a required dependency for the Claude animation skill.

06:39 – 09:17

05 · Add Golpo plugin

Run npm install, type claude in terminal, authenticate with subscription account, add and install the Golpo marketplace plugin, run /reload plugins.

09:17 – 13:15

06 · First demo: Earth animation

Prompt Claude Code to create a 15-second whiteboard animation about Earth; Claude asks for Golpo API key; pricing plans explained; animation result shown.

13:15 – 15:29

07 · Second demo: brain short

Ask Claude Code to write a 100-word brain script, then prompt Golpo to render a vertical editorial-style animation; result is 53 seconds.

15:29 – 17:14

08 · Reviewing the brain animation

Plays the vertical brain short in full; highlights text-to-voice sync, clean hand-drawn aesthetic, and the editorial vs whiteboard style difference.

17:14 – 18:30

09 · Real-world results and CTA

Shows his own channel video with embedded animations, 60K views proof, subscribe CTA, plug for YouTube algorithm video.

Atomic Insights

Lines worth screenshotting.

A ten-minute animated video via Golpo costs $20 in API credits — roughly 2% of what a freelance editor charges for the same length.
The Golpo Claude skill must be installed via terminal, not through the Claude Code chat interface — a step most people get wrong.
Prompting for 'editorial style' instead of 'whiteboard' produces a noticeably different and often more polished visual result.
Adding 'make sure to use Python, not Python three' to your prompt prevents a common runtime error when Claude Code invokes the animation script.
Windows points Python commands to the Microsoft Store by default — disabling Python app execution aliases in Advanced App Settings is the actual fix.
Golpo generates both the voiceover and the script automatically if you do not supply one, so the minimum viable prompt is just a topic and duration.
Prompting for a vertical video format produces a 9:16 output suitable for Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and TikTok without any post-processing.
A Golpo account with the $999 Scale plan includes 800 credits, which covers 40 ten-minute videos or more than 200 short-form clips.
The API-only tier unlocks the same generation quality without the monthly plan cost — you only pay per credit consumed.
Text in Golpo animations is synced to the voiceover word-by-word, making the output feel intentional rather than auto-generated.

Takeaway

A text prompt is now a complete animated video.

WHAT TO LEARN

The gap between idea and finished animation has collapsed to a single API call and the right Claude plugin.

Installing the Golpo plugin through the Claude terminal — not the chat interface — is the step most people miss; the marketplace add and plugin install commands must run in the Claude Code CLI.
Specifying 'editorial style' instead of 'whiteboard' in your prompt produces a cleaner, more illustrated look and may better match the aesthetic of established educational channels.
Adding 'make sure to use Python, not Python three' to animation prompts prevents a silent runtime failure on Windows where Claude Code defaults to the wrong interpreter.
Windows requires a manual fix for the Python path conflict: disable the Python app execution aliases under Advanced App Settings, otherwise the terminal keeps pointing to the Microsoft Store.
The API-only pricing tier is the cheapest entry point — you pay per credit without a subscription, making it viable for occasional or experimental use before committing to a plan.
Golpo auto-generates the script and voiceover from a topic alone, so the minimum viable prompt is a subject and a target duration — no pre-written script required.
Prompting for a vertical output directly produces a 9:16 video; the format switch is prompt-driven, not a post-render crop.
Text in the animation is synced word-by-word to the voiceover, meaning animation timing is determined by what you write in the script, not adjusted in a timeline editor.

Glossary

Terms worth knowing.

Golpo: An AI-powered video creation platform that generates animated explainer videos from text prompts, with voiceover and visuals synced automatically. Used here as a Claude Code plugin via API.
Claude skill / plugin: An extension installed into Claude Code via the /plugin marketplace command that gives Claude access to external tools and APIs, such as animation generation.
API-only tier: A Golpo pricing option where you pay per credit consumed rather than a flat monthly subscription, making it cheaper for occasional use.
Editorial style: A Golpo rendering mode that produces a more refined, illustrated look compared to the rougher hand-drawn whiteboard style.
App Execution Aliases: A Windows setting that redirects python and python3 terminal commands to the Microsoft Store instead of an installed Python binary, causing 'Python not found' errors that must be disabled manually.
/reload plugins: A Claude Code terminal command that re-scans installed plugins and makes newly installed skills available in the current session.

Resources

Things they pointed at.

01:14linkclaude.ai ↗

01:40linkClaude desktop app ↗

02:37linkpython.org ↗

05:46linknodejs.org ↗

10:38productGolpo AI ↗

11:20linkFiverr ↗

Quotables

Lines you could clip.

00:42

“Everyone is talking about Claude Code — it's literally everywhere on the Internet, but no one talks about this exact method.”

Strong contrarian hook, no setup needed→ TikTok hook↗ Tweet quote

12:14

“With $20 you can generate a ten-minute video. Instead of paying someone $400-$500 for a ten-minute video, you can use the Golpo API and pay $20.”

Concrete dollar comparison — high share potential→ IG reel cold open↗ Tweet quote

17:07

“I've been gatekeeping this for a long time.”

Authentic excitement plus scarcity framing→ newsletter pull-quote↗ Tweet quote

The Script

Word for word.

Read-along

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See every word as it's spoken — crank it to 2× and still catch all of it. The same dual-channel trick behind Amazon's Kindle + Audible.

analogystory

00:00In this video, I'm gonna show you how you can use Cloud Code to create whiteboard animations that look exactly like these ones over here. And this is actually insane because for example, this YouTube channel over here got over 80,000 subscribers and is probably making thousands of dollars a month by creating these animations using Cloud Code.

00:18Not only that but I used Cloud Code to create these animations for my own videos. As you can see on the screen, this is a video on my channel where the animated drawings inside are created using code and these animations are actually very popular on social media. On YouTube for example, there are channels with millions of subscribers who are making these types of animations.

00:36Believe it or not, very few people know about this method. Everyone is talking about clock code. It's literally everywhere on the Internet, but no one talks about this exact method of creating animations for YouTube or Instagram or any social media platform.

00:50So if you wanna learn how to create these animations to make your social media content look nicer, in this video, I'm gonna be showing you how we can use Cloud Code to create these animations in just a few minutes. Let's begin. The first thing you need is a Cloud account.

01:01If you don't have a Cloud account, go to your browser and search for Cloud AI. Search for Cloud AI and then ignore the first links because the first links are just ads. Scroll down a little bit, and over here we have claude.ai.

01:14Go to this website and create an account on claude if you don't have an account, or you can also log in with your Google account. Then what I want you to do is go back to your browser and search for Claude code over here. Search for clot code.

01:26If it doesn't appear at the top, just scroll down until you find it. So over here we have clot code by entropic.clotcode.com. Click on this.

01:34Then we wanna install clot code on our computer. To install it, just click on this button over here which says get Cloud Code. And as you can see, you can get it for desktop.

01:42Click on desktop, and then it's going to send you to this page over here, and then click download for Windows. And you can also download it for Mac OS over here.

01:51As you can see, we have Mac OS. Now once you've downloaded it, you have to install it on your computer. So go to your downloads folder over here, and we have Clod setup.

01:58I want you to click on it and install Clod on your computer. Now after you install it, I want you to open Clod Code. You might have an icon on your desktop or you can search it over here in the search bar.

02:08So I'm just gonna search for Clock. As you can see, we have the app. Click on it.

02:12Now over here, we have to log in with the account we just created. So just click on get started. If you used an email, log in with your email.

02:18If you use a Google account, log in with your Google account. After you log in, this is how your dashboard is going to look like. What I want you to do is go to the top left over here where it says code and click on code.

02:27But this is not going to work if you don't have Python. So what I want you to do is go back to your browser, and then I want you to search for Python over here, hit enter, go to the Python website which is this one over here python.org, and then download Python on your computer.

02:45So go over here with your mouse where it says downloads, and then click on Python install manager. After it downloads this application, I want you to double click on it and install Python on your computer.

02:56So click on it and then click over here where it says install Python and wait for Python to be installed. And it's going to automatically launch Python for you.

03:06So this is what you're about to see. You should see this terminal over here. What I want you to do inside this terminal, because this is where a lot of people screw this up, I want you to type y over here just like me as you can see this letter over here, y, and press enter.

03:19And then what I want you to do is also type y over here. Right? As you can see, I just typed y, and then again press enter.

03:26And then again, I want you to type y over here. As you can see over here, I typed y and press enter in order to install the latest Python version over here. As you can see, it says installing Python three point one four point four.

03:39Right? Downloading and blah blah blah. Just wait for it to download and install.

03:42Now after you install Python and you made sure you have the right version, we still need to install the request. So what I want you to do is open the terminal again. So type in terminal and type in this command over here.

03:53So I'm gonna zoom in on the screen, pause the video, and copy this command over here. Once you copied this command, I want you to press enter on your keyboard to send this command to your terminal.

04:03As you can see, it's collecting the requests. It's updating blah blah blah blah blah. Now some people are still going to have some trouble when they prompt Clockcode to create the animations.

04:10Cloud Code might say he can't find Python, so what I want you to do is close this terminal, open a new terminal, and over here type this command over here.

04:19Pause the video, copy this entire command, and then press enter. Once you press enter, if it shows the version that's really good, what I want you to do now is type the following command again. So type this command over here.

04:30I'm gonna pause the video again, and I want you to type this exact command over here. And after you copied this command, just press enter over here. And after you've done this, you can type this command over here, which is Python version, to see if we actually have it installed.

04:44If you're getting this message over here which says Python was not found, that's because Windows is really dumb and is pointing to the Microsoft Store instead of to the instead of the actual Python application. So, basically, what you wanna do is type this command over here. As you can see, you can pause the video, copy this command over here, type it, press enter, and hopefully this should fix the issue.

05:07Now if Windows still can't find Python, what I want you to do is go over here to your search bar and search for manage app execution alias, and then scroll down a little bit until you see these two ones over here, python dot x and then python three dot x.

05:22What I want you to do is turn them off over here. Right? And then we can close this window.

05:27Now if we go back to our terminal and we check the Python version, it should finally find it.

05:35Now I'm sorry this took a little bit of time, but a lot of people are struggling with this, and this is the exact reason why a lot of people are not actually creating animations using this skill because sometimes Windows or Mac OS are giving these errors and it's hard to find Python or whatever. But once you've done this, you're good to go.

05:54Now we have to install one more tool which is Node JS. So what I want you to do is go to your new browser and search for Node JS. Search for Node JS, go to their website which is this one over here, nodejs.org, click on it, and download Node JS on your computer.

06:10To do that, just click over here where it says Windows installer. Right? Click on this, It's going to download you the application.

06:16Click on it, and then just click next next next and install Node. Js.

06:21Now we have to install the goalpost skill, which is actually the skill which will let us create these animations. Now a lot of people make the mistake where they try to install this skill inside Cloud Code, and it's not working. What you wanna do is actually install it in your terminal.

06:34So what I want you to do is go over here to the search bar and search for terminal over here. And once you search for terminal, I want you to type the following thing. So I'm gonna zoom in on the screen.

06:45I want you to pause the video and write this thing in your terminal. Once you're done writing it, I want you to press enter. Now what I want you to do is just type Claude like this in your terminal.

06:54Just type Claude and press enter. Once you press enter, you should see this thing over here. What I want you to do is play with your arrows on your keyboard just like this and choose the mode.

07:04So I'm gonna choose dark mode and hit enter. Right? And now we have to select what we're going to be using.

07:10Are we going to be using API, third party platform, or the cloud account with subscription? So what I want you to do is by using your keyboard arrows, go to number one, which is this one over here, cloud code with subscription, and then hit enter.

07:23It's going to send you to the cloud code website. So over here, as you can see, it sent me to the Cloud Code website, and it's going to ask me to authorize permission. So just click over here to authorize.

07:34Once you authorize, you now should be able to install the skill in your terminal. As you can see, it says over here that we can close this window. So we can close the window, go back to our terminal.

07:43So what I want you to do is in your terminal, as you can see, it says to press enter to continue. So just press enter and then press again enter to continue. And then it's going to ask you if you trust this folder.

07:53Select number one, which is yes, I trust this folder. And now over here, we can install the skill which will let us create these animations. To install the skill, I want you to type this following command over here.

08:03I'm gonna zoom in on the screen, and as usual, I want you to pause the video and type this exact command over here. Once you're done typing it, I want you to press enter and send it to the terminal. Right?

08:14And as you can see over here, it says that it successfully added to the marketplace the goalpost skill. Now in order to install it, I want you to write the following command over here. So pause the video, write this command over here, and once you're done writing it, press enter to install the skill.

08:29You're going to have a few options over here as you can see install only for you or install for all collaborators or blah blah blah. What I want you to select is literally just install for you. So choose this one and press enter.

08:41Then once it's installed, it's going to ask you to run reload plugins in order to apply. So what I want you to do over here is type slash reload plugins.

08:50Right? So I want you to write this exact thing over here. Reload plugins and then press enter.

08:54Now once you have the skill installed, can minimize this window or close it and go back to your Clothcode app. Now after you're done doing all those boring things, and as I said, you only have to do them once. If you managed to do them until now, you don't have to do them again.

09:09Now we can actually start creating the animations. There's only one last thing we need, and that's the API from Golpo because in order to create these animations, we need the API from Golpo.

09:19So let me show you how it works. Basically, inside Cloud Code over here, you must select the code dashboard over here.

09:26Right? So make sure you're on the code section. So let me show you how you can add the API and how this actually works.

09:32So for example, I'm gonna ask Cloud Code to create an animation for me. So I'm gonna say create a whiteboard animation that that is fifteen seconds long using the goalpo skill about why I don't know.

09:50Earth is super awesome. And then I'm also going to type, make sure to use Python, not Python three.

10:01Right? Because sometimes he clot code is trying to use Python three, and it's giving you errors, so it's good to type this thing over here. And then just send this message to clot.

10:10And it's probably going to ask you if you allow permission. As you can see over here, allow clot to use PowerShell. Just click over here, allow.

10:18And then again, you can click always allow over here. And as you can see, it's going to say over here, Python is good. Request is installed, but no GOLPO API key is configured yet.

10:28To proceed, you need the API key, and it's going to ask you to paste your Golpo API key. Basically, what you wanna do is go to this website over here. As you can see, it's going to send you a link.

10:38So click on this link, and this is the tool that actually offers this skill on Cloud Code, which lets you create these animations. Now you have two ways of getting access to the API key. If you click over here where it says pricing on the top left, just click on pricing, you will see that in order to have API access, you need the scale plan over here, which costs $999.

10:59Now for a lot of people, this might seem like it's a lot of money, but let me actually explain why this is actually cheap. So, basically, with this plan, you're actually getting 800 credits.

11:09And with 800 credits, you can generate forty ten minute long videos, or you can generate more than 200 short videos for shorts or Instagram or TikTok. Now that's a lot of videos because if you think about it, a good video editor usually costs $300, $500, even $1,000.

11:27If you go on Fiverr and you actually search for a really good video editor, you'll see that the price is usually $300 for just a five minute video.

11:36Right? If you want a fifteen minute video, you're going to pay €500. That's like $600.

11:42Right? And this is just for one video. That's why the price actually makes a lot of sense.

11:46But you also have different plans which don't give you the API key. So you have the business plan, the growth plan, the creator plan. You can choose the business plan which basically offers almost everything in the scale plan.

11:56You just don't get the API. But there's also a much cheaper option. If you scroll down, you can literally just get the plan which gives you the API.

12:03As you can see over here, API only tier. And you're basically just paying for the credits. As you can see, to generate a one minute video, you need two credits which is $2.

12:12Right? So basically, with $20, you can generate a ten minute video.

12:16So instead of paying someone around 400 to $500 for a ten minute video, you can use the GoldPo API, pay $20 for a ten minute video. So in order to get this tier, all you wanna do is click over here get API access, and once you pay for the credits, you're going to have access to the your API key. As you can see inside my account, I have this button over here which says create API key.

12:37If you click on this button, it's going to create an API key for you. What you wanna do is copy that API key and then go back to Cloud Code and paste the API key over here. Not gonna show you my API key because if I show you my API key, you're basically going to generate animations using my money.

12:53Right? So I'm not gonna show you that. So the animation is ready.

12:56Cloud Code is telling us that the animation is ready, and I'm super excited to show you how this animation actually looks. So in order to check your animation, all you have to do is click on this URL over here, which says watch on Golpo. And what's cool about this is that it also added a voice over, and it also created the script for us.

13:14So let me show you how it looks.

13:16Earth isn't just lucky. It's a cosmic marvel positioned perfectly for liquid water, shielded by a powerful magnetic field, and kept stable by our large moon.

13:29Even our planet's geology, with its plate tectonics, helps regulate the climate This is insane, by the way.

13:35Uniquely awesome.

13:36Like, the drawings are beautiful. They look as if a human sketched this. Right?

13:41And now you can literally download this video to your computer and use it in your video. You can't see because of my webcam, so I'm gonna remove my webcam for a second. But over here, if you click on these three dots, you can see you have the download option.

13:52You click download. You download it to your computer over here. And now as you can see, I'm playing it from my computer.

13:57I literally have the video myself. And the crazy part and the crazy part is that I didn't even type in a script because what I usually do, I create the script for my channel for Denny y, and then I type in the script inside Cloud Code. And based on that script, I create an animation that looks like this.

14:14And I'm I actually wanna show you guys how it actually works so you can decide for yourself if this is worth it or not. So for example, I'm gonna ask ClockCode over here to write me a let's say, write a 100 words script about why the brain is awesome and how it actually works.

14:33Right? And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna copy this script over here, and I'm gonna ask Clopcode to to create a an animation in an editorial style using the goalpost kill.

14:45And let's say this time we don't wanna make a long form video. Maybe you wanna make a short video. Maybe we post Instagram video.

14:52So let's also prompt Cloud Code to make the video vertical and then tell Cloud Code to use the following script.

15:00So I'm gonna paste the script we've just created with Cloud Code. Right? So I'm gonna send this message, and in two to three minutes, we should have an animated video about why the brain is awesome.

15:10So I'm gonna click over here, allow once, because it's always going to ask you to allow. And now let's just wait to see what it creates. Let's check out the video.

15:18This video is supposed to be about the brain and why the brain is awesome, and it needs to be vertical. Right? It needs to fit for YouTube shorts, Instagram reels, or TikToks.

15:27Let's click over here to watch on GoldPo and see how it looks. Why your brain is awesome. So as you can immediately see, the style of the drawings are different because I typed editorial instead of whiteboard.

15:39And in my opinion, this looks much better. This is the style I actually use on my own channel. So let me finish playing the video.

15:44And as you can see, by the way, the video is fifty three seconds long. Right? This is perfect for an Instagram reel or for a YouTube short or whatever.

15:52Skull.

15:53It contains roughly 86,000,000,000

15:55neuron And you can see when it says 86,000,000,000 neurons, the text is synced to the voice over, and that's something I really like.

16:03Each firing electrical signals up to 200 times. When it says electrical signals, it starts drawing the neuron with the electrical signals.

16:12Right? It's very synced. Second.

16:15These neurons connect And now it says these neurons, and it's showing more neurons. And what I like about this is the fact that it's it's so synced that it makes it pleasing to watch. Right?

16:25It's actually very hard to tell that this was created with AI. Through trillions of synapses,

16:30forming networks that store memories,

16:33generate emotions, and solve problem As I said, memories, emotion problems, super synced with the voice over. I love that about Golpo.

16:41All simultaneously. When you learn something new, your brain physically rewires itself.

16:49That's called neuroplasticity, and it never stops. It runs on just 20 watts of power yet outperforms any machine on the planet at creativity, intuition, and empathy.

17:03The brain doesn't just control your life. It is your life.

17:07That's insane. I have no words how clean this looks. And I swear to god, after I post this video to YouTube, so many YouTubers are going to use this because right now I see nobody use it.

17:18I've been gatekeeping this for a long time. So if you appreciate that I'm sharing this for free, I would appreciate if you subscribe to my channel. Now I wanna show you how I'm actually using this on my own channel.

17:28So if we go check out my videos over here, we will see that this video for me, for example, over here was posted one month ago. It got almost 60,000 views, which by the way for my niche, that's a lot of views because I make educational content. And let me show you how my video looks.

17:41So it's me and then I'm using Cloud Code to create the animations.

17:48As you can see, these animations over here are created with Cloud Code. And I'm now gonna speed up the video, and I'm gonna move throughout the entire video to show you how my entire video uses these animations. So as you can see, I have these animations over here, which I created using Cloth Code and the goalpost skill.

18:06And my entire video has these animations. Like, we can go to the middle of the video. I still have the animations.

18:12Now that you know how to create these animations, the next step is to understand how the YouTube algorithm works so you can actually make videos that get views. And if you wanna learn about that, you might wanna watch this video over here because inside this video, I talk about the YouTube algorithm and how it works. And not only that, but I'm using the same animations I've shown you in this video inside this video.

The Hook

The bait, then the rug-pull.

The setup that most tutorial creators bury in hour-long courses fits inside eighteen minutes here. A working animator's pipeline — prompt, voice, script, and synced visuals — collapses into a $20 API call and a Claude plugin most people have never heard of.

Frameworks

Named ideas worth stealing.

09:17model

Prompt-to-Animation Pipeline

Write or paste a script
Specify style (whiteboard or editorial)
Specify format (horizontal or vertical)
Send to Claude Code with Golpo skill active
Get back a playable URL in 2-3 minutes

The five-step mental model for going from idea to finished animated video using Claude Code and Golpo.

Steal forAny educational YouTube channel or short-form content workflow

CTA Breakdown

How they asked for the click.

VERBAL ASK

17:14subscribe

“If you appreciate that I'm sharing this for free, I would appreciate if you subscribe to my channel.”

Delivered after showing live proof (60K views on his own animation video). Soft, single ask. Followed immediately by a content recommendation to the YouTube algorithm video.

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