--- format: "aidr-story-markdown/v1" id: "669d8cd0cb0cb12c40c2fd95563c4a3ff7c7f108b7363befe8af61105f34f62c" canonical_url: "https://aidr.today/669d8cd0?lang=en" title: "Kākāpō Party" lang: "en" requested_lang: "en" available_langs: ["en","vi"] translation_fallback: null fallback_fields: [] published_at: "2026-09-26T23:39:06.000Z" category: "Models" topics: ["anthropic","llm"] source_urls: ["https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/26/kakapo-party/"] summary: "Tool: Kākāpō Party I gave presented a closing keynote for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America yesterday. As a STAR moment I decided to weave in references to the record breaking kākāpō breeding season we had in 2026. For my closing slide I wanted to celebrate, and I had seen some buzz around how good Claude Opus 5.5 was at creating pixel art animations. So I rounded up three Kakapo photos from Google image search and dropped them into Claude with this prompt: Here are some photos of kakapo parrots just to remind you what they look like I need you to make an animation in animated pixel art on HTML 5 canvas of obviously pixel art kakapo jumping up and down having a party with confetti and suchlike - there should be at least 20 of them Here's the transcript , and this is the resulting page . It's pretty great! I wanted to embed it in a Keynote presentation file, so I downloaded the HTML and told a local Claude Code session: Make me a video of file:///Users/simon/Downloads/kakapo-party.html - you need to load it in a browser and click on it a few times to get the confetti effect, the video should be 15s long don't start clicking until 3s in make sure several clicks are spr" --- # Kākāpō Party > [Open the canonical story]() **Published:** 2026-09-26T23:39:06.000Z **Category:** Models **Topics:** anthropic, llm ## Summary Tool: Kākāpō Party I gave presented a closing keynote for the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America yesterday\. As a STAR moment I decided to weave in references to the record breaking kākāpō breeding season we had in 2026\. For my closing slide I wanted to celebrate, and I had seen some buzz around how good Claude Opus 5\.5 was at creating pixel art animations\. So I rounded up three Kakapo photos from Google image search and dropped them into Claude with this prompt: Here are some photos of kakapo parrots just to remind you what they look like I need you to make an animation in animated pixel art on HTML 5 canvas of obviously pixel art kakapo jumping up and down having a party with confetti and suchlike \- there should be at least 20 of them Here's the transcript , and this is the resulting page \. It's pretty great\! I wanted to embed it in a Keynote presentation file, so I downloaded the HTML and told a local Claude Code session: Make me a video of file:///Users/simon/Downloads/kakapo\-party\.html \- you need to load it in a browser and click on it a few times to get the confetti effect, the video should be 15s long don't start clicking until 3s in make sure several clicks are spr ## Sources - [Story source]()