Raahel Baig

Using AI agents for pixel art animations

Claude Code has a mascot named Claw’d which features in all the feature announcement posts. I find these animations extremely cute and wondered if it is possible to create such animations for myself.

I showcased before how coding agents can actually be used as general agents to do things outside of coding - like infographic video generations. I also recently subscribed to Google AI Pro plan and have been using the Gemini CLI with Gemini 3.1 Pro to do some frontend design changes for FanMeter.

So, I thought why not test both these agents to see which one can generate the better animation. I launched both of these agents in their respective YOLO modes (--dangerously-skip-permissions for Claude Code and --yolo for Gemini CLI) and gave this prompt:

Create a pixel art animation GIF of a 26 year old guy who spends his week teaching AWS classes (offline), working fulltime (WFH) as a DevOps engineer and is also addicted to AI software development (Claudoholic). High FPS, high definition. Not less than 10 seconds.

Gemini was the first one to generate it and it gave me this. I’d give it 4/10 at best:

Gemini 3.1 Pro with Gemini CLI

Claude took a while and gave me the much better output. An impressive 7/10:

Opus 4.6 with Claude Code

Interestingly, because I use Claude as my daily driver, it knew about how I got the idea of Fan Meter and added the part where I wake up in the middle of the night to build something

This is kinda meta but when I was checking the preview of this entry on vercel, I didn’t like how the gifs were both playing on load at the same time with no option to pause them. I remember Simon Willison had a click to play mechanism in one of his blog posts and asked Claude Code (on mobile) to implement the same. Even though it wasn’t the exact same implementation, it’s solution worked!