References.

Every source the course used, grouped by how it was used. The labels mean:

• Opened and checked: I read the source itself and checked the course's claims against it.
• Via the article: I know of it only because the article cites it. I didn't open it for this course.
• Standard: an established standard or result, used without re-fetching it.

The guide the course started from

• Movez (@0xMovez), How to build motion design studio with Opus 5.5 (Full-course)
  • X article
  • Substack copy (the version I read)

Anthropic (all opened and checked)

• Introducing Claude Opus 5.5
• Claude Opus 5.5 model specs on Google Cloud: inputs, outputs, limits
• Effort
• Prompting Claude Opus 5.5
• Claude prompting best practices
• Claude Code docs:
  • Setup
  • CLAUDE.md / memory
  • Hooks
  • Settings
  • Desktop quickstart
  • Desktop
  • Skills
  • Plugins

Repos and tools (opened and checked)

• Remotion Agent Skills · remotion-dev/skills
• HyperFrames by HeyGen
• claude-animation-skill by buildwithhanif
• PDoomVideo by John Heibel
• awesome-opus-5-5-videos by athemeroy
• What Ships, a directory of launch videos
• MDN: will-change

Research (opened and checked)

• Panickssery, Bowman and Feng, LLM Evaluators Recognize and Favor Their Own Generations
• Wataoka, Takahashi and Ri, Self-Preference Bias in LLM-as-a-Judge
• Further reading: Chen et al., Do LLM Evaluators Prefer Themselves for a Reason?

Established standards and results

Standard: I used these without re-fetching them for this course, so they're credited as standards rather than as things I verified.

• ITU-R BS.1770 / EBU R128: LUFS loudness and true peak.
• ITU-R BT.709: the HD colour matrix (the Lesson 5 colour bug).
• ITU-R BT.1359: how far sound and picture can drift before people notice.
• OKLab, by Björn Ottosson: the perceptual colour space in lib/color.js.
• mulberry32: the seeded random number generator in lib/rng.js. It's commonly attributed to Tommy Ettinger and released into the public domain.
• The damped harmonic oscillator and the overshoot formula: from control theory, used in lib/motion.js.

Creators whose posts the article cites (through the article only)

Via the article:

Thariq (@trq212), Tommy D. Rossi (@__morse), Stephan Livera (@stephanlivera), Rob Hallam (@robj3d3), Himanshu (@himanshutwtxs), @twoclipping, Tony Dinh (@tdinh_me), Chain (@achxvi), Rexan Wong (@rexan_wong), Martijn Verbove (@verbove), @NFT_Chen, onur ozcan (@oozn), Vox (@Voxyz_ai), donald (@donaldjewkes), Pleometric (@pleometric), DreW (@devteamdrew), Mable Joseph (@mablesjoseph), @kloss_xyz, @1littlecoder, @sonnylazuardi, @pradeepXkapoor.

Reference videos (analysed, not redistributed)

• refs/launch.mp4: mtioon's launch video (mtioon.com).
• refs/launch2.mp4, refs/launch3.mp4, refs/launch4.mp4: TODO: name the creators. Neither the files nor refs/best-of.md say whose videos these are. Safari OS v2 takes one technique from each, so each needs a credit here:
  • launch2.mp4 (type: the caret is the camera): creator and link
  • launch3.mp4 (camera: the device holds still while the world changes): creator and link
  • launch4.mp4 (structure: one story through every feature): creator and link

The written analyses (refs/*/beats.md, refs/best-of.md) are original work. The videos themselves stay local and belong to their owners (NOTICE.md).

Software and fonts

• Software: Claude Code, Playwright and Chromium, FFmpeg, Node.js, Python, NumPy, SciPy, librosa, soundfile, Numba, Pillow.
• Fonts (SIL Open Font License):
  • Inter, by Rasmus Andersson
  • Fraunces, by Undercase Type
  • Geist, by Vercel with basement.studio