Samuel Lawrentz · engineer & team lead · 9+ years
I build interfaces,
systems, and teams.
Nine years of shipping pixel-perfect UIs and the systems behind them. I write monthly about the craft - code, tools, and leading engineers.
Make the Model Watch Its Own Frames - A Motion Graphics Test with Opus 5.5
Everyone is making motion graphics with Opus 5.5 right now. I gave it the same brief twice, once as a one-shot and once with a rule to look at a contact sheet of its own frames and critique them. Here are both results side by side, with the cost of each.
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- Sep 23, 2026 Opus 5.5, Day One: Four Models, Two Boring Tasks, Sixteen Runs
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