Kākāpō Party

Simon Willison described how he used artificial intelligence to create a festive animation of kākapo birds that he showcased at the end of his talk at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America. Starting from three photographs of the bird, he fed them into Claude Opus 5.5 with a prompt requesting a “pixel‑art” of at least twenty kākapo leaping and throwing confetti on an HTML 5 canvas. Claude produced a web page containing the animation, which Willison downloaded and then processed again with Claude Code to generate a fifteen‑second video. For this he employed Playwright, a browser‑automation engine, and wrote a short script that opened the local HTML file, performed a series of programmed clicks on different areas of the canvas, and recorded the screen, yielding the final clip that he inserted into his closing slide. The code, only a few dozen lines, sets the video resolution, the sequence of key presses, and the wait times needed for the confetti effect to trigger in sync.

This demonstration shows how language models can generate visual content, and when combined with automation tools, can produce ready‑made multimedia assets for presentations without deep programming knowledge. The example highlights the potential of generative AI to accelerate the creation of visual resources for events and professional communications.

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