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In this video, I'm going to show you how you can use Cloud Code to create whiteboard animations that look exactly like these ones over here. And this is actually insane because, for example, this YouTube channel over here got over 80,000 subscribers and is probably making thousands of dollars a month by creating these animations using Cloud Code.
Not only that, but I used Cloud Code to create these animations for my own videos. As you can see on the screen, this is a video on my channel where the animated drawings inside are created using Cloud Code. And these animations are actually very popular on social media. On YouTube, for example, there are channels with millions of subscribers who are making these types of animations.
Believe it or not, very few people know about this method. Everyone is talking about Cloud Code. It's literally everywhere on the internet. But no one talks about this exact method of creating animations for YouTube or Instagram or any social media platform. So, if you want to learn how to create these animations to make your social media content look nicer, in this video I'm going to be showing you how you can use Cloud Code to create these animations in just a few minutes. Let's begin.
The first thing you need is a Cloud account. If you don't have a Cloud account, go to your browser and search for Cloud AI. Search for Cloud AI and then ignore the first links because the first links are just ads. Scroll down a little bit and over here we have claude.ai. Go to this website and create an account on Claude if you don't have an account. Or you can also log in with your Google account.
Then what I want you to do is go back to your browser and search for Cloud Code over here. Search for Cloud Code. If it doesn't appear at the top, just scroll down until you find it. So over here we have Cloud Code by Anthropic cloudcode.com. Click on this. Then we want to install Cloud Code on our computer. To install it, just click on this button over here which says Get Cloud Code. And as you can see, you can get it for desktop. Click on desktop and then it's going to send you to this page over here and then click Download for Windows and you can also download it for Mac OS over here. As you can see, we have Mac OS.
Now, once you've downloaded it, you have to install it on your computer. So, go to your downloads folder over here and we have Claude setup. I want you to click on it and install Claude on your computer. Now, after you install it, I want you to open Cloud Code. You might have an icon on your desktop or you can search for it over here in the search bar. So, I'm just going to search for Cloud. As you can see, we have the app. Click on it.
Now over here we have to log in with the account we just created. So just click on Get Started. If you used an email, log in with your email. If you use a Google account, log in with your Google account. After you log in, this is how your dashboard is going to look like. What I want you to do is go to the top left over here where it says Code and click on Code. But this is not going to work if you don't have Python.
So what I want you to do is go back to your browser and then I want you to search for Python over here. Hit enter. Go to the Python website, which is this one over here, python.org. And then download Python on your computer. So go over here with your mouse where it says Downloads and then click on Python installer. After it downloads this application, I want you to double click on it and install Python on your computer. So click on it and then click over here where it says Install Python and wait for Python to be installed. And it's going to automatically launch Python for you. So this is what you're about to see. You should see this terminal over here.
What I want you to do inside this terminal, because this is where a lot of people screw this up. I want you to type Y over here, just like me. As you can see, this letter over here, Y, and press enter. And then what I want you to do is also type Y over here. Right? As you can see, I just typed Y. And then again, press enter. And then again, I want you to type Y over here. As you can see over here, I typed Y and press enter in order to install the latest Python version over here. As you can see, it says installing Python 3.14.4. Downloading and blah blah blah. Just wait for it to download and install.
Now, after you install Python and you made sure you have the right version, we still need to install the requests. So, what I want you to do is open the terminal again. So, type in terminal and type in this command over here. So, I'm going to zoom in on the screen, pause the video and copy this command over here. Once you copied this command, I want you to press enter on your keyboard to send this command to your terminal. As you can see, it's collecting the requests. It's updating blah blah blah blah.
Now, some people are still going to have some trouble when they prompt Cloud Code to create the animations. Cloud Code might say it can't find Python. So, what I want you to do is close this terminal, open a new terminal, and over here, type this command over here. Pause the video, copy this entire command, and then press enter. Once you press enter, if it shows the version, that's really good. What I want you to do now is type the following command again. So, type this command over here. I'm going to pause the video again, and I want you to type this exact command over here. And after you copied this command, just press enter over here. And after you've done this, you can type this command over here, which is Python version to see if we actually have it installed.
If you're getting this message over here, which says Python was not found, that's because Windows is really dumb and is pointing to the Microsoft Store instead to the instead of the actual Python application. So basically, what you want to do is type this command over here. As you can see, you can pause the video, copy this command over here, type it, press enter, and hopefully this should fix the issue.
Now, if Windows still can't find Python, what I want you to do is go over here to your search bar and search for Manage App Execution Aliases and then scroll down a little bit until you see these two ones over here, python.exe and then python3.exe. What I want you to do is turn them off over here, right? And then we can close this window. Now, if we go back to our terminal and we check the Python version, it should finally find it.
Now, I'm sorry this took a little bit of time, but a lot of people are struggling with this. And this is the exact reason why a lot of people are not actually creating animations using this skill because sometimes Windows or Mac OS are giving these errors and it's hard to find Python or whatever. But once you've done this, you're good to go.
Now we have to install one more tool which is NodeJS. So what I want you to do is go to your new browser and search for NodeJS. Search for NodeJS. Go to their website which is this one over here nodejs.org. Click on it and download NodeJS on your computer. To do that just click over here where it says Windows Installer. Right click on this. It's going to download you the application. Click on it and then just click next, next, and install NodeJS.
Now we have to install the Goalpost skill which is actually the skill which will let us create these animations. Now a lot of people make the mistake where they try to install this skill inside Cloud Code and it's not working. What you want to do is actually install it in your terminal. So what I want you to do is go over here to the search bar and search for terminal over here. And once you search for terminal I want you to type the following thing. So I'm going to zoom in on the screen. I want you to pause the video and write this thing in your terminal. Once you're done writing it, I want you to press enter.
Now, what I want you to do is just type claude like this in your terminal. Just type claude and press enter. Once you press enter, you should see this thing over here. What I want you to do is play with your arrows on your keyboard just like this and choose the mode. So, I'm going to choose dark mode and hit enter. Right? And now we have to select what we're going to be using. Are we going to be using API third party platform or the Cloud account with subscription? So what I want you to do is by using your keyboard arrows go to number one which is this one over here Cloud Code with subscription and then hit enter.
It's going to send you to the Cloud Code website. So over here as you can see it sent me to the Cloud Code website and it's going to ask me to authorize permission. So just click over here to authorize. Once you authorize you now should be able to install the skill in your terminal. As you can see it says over here that we can close this window. So we can close the window. Go back to our terminal. So what I want you to do is in your terminal as you can see it says to press enter to continue. So just press enter and then press again enter to continue and then it's going to ask you if you trust this folder. Select number one which is yes I trust this folder. And now over here we can install the skill which will let us create these animations.
To install the skill I want you to type this following command over here. I'm going to zoom in on the screen and as usual I want you to pause the video and type this exact command over here. Once you're done typing it, I want you to press enter and send it to the terminal. Right? And as you can see over here, it says that it successfully added to the marketplace the Goalpost skill.
Now, in order to install it, I want you to write the following command over here. So, pause the video, write this command over here, and once you're done writing it, press enter to install the skill. You're going to have a few options over here, as you can see, install only for you or install for all collaborators or blah blah blah. What I want you to select is literally just install for you. So, choose this one and press enter. Then, once it's installed, it's going to ask you to run reload plugins in order to apply. So, what I want you to do over here is type /reload plugins. Right? So, I want you to write this exact thing over here, reload plugins, and then press enter.
Now, once you have the skill installed, you can minimize this window or close it and go back to your Cloud Code app. Now, after you're done doing all those boring things, and as I said, you only have to do them once. If you managed to do them until now, you don't have to do them again. Now we can actually start creating the animations.
There's only one last thing we need and that's the API from Goalpo because in order to create these animations, we need the API from Goalpo. So let me show you how it works. Basically inside Cloud Code over here, you must select the Code dashboard over here, right? So make sure you're on the Code section. So let me show you how you can add the API and how this actually works. So for example, I'm going to ask Cloud Code to create an animation for me. So I'm going to say create a whiteboard animation that is 15 seconds long using the Goalpost skill about why I don't know earth is super awesome. And then I'm also going to type make sure to use Python not Python 3, right? Because sometimes it uh Cloud Code is trying to use Python 3 and it's giving you errors. So it's good to type this thing over here and then just send this message to Claude and it's probably going to ask you if you allow permission. As you can see over here, allow Claude to use PowerShell. Just click over here, allow. And then again, you can click always allow over here. And as you can see, it's going to say over here, Python is good. Request is installed, but no Goalpo API key is configured yet. To proceed, you need the API key. And it's going to ask you to paste your Goalpo API key.
Basically, what you want to do is go to this website over here. As you can see, it's going to send you a link. So, click on this link. And this is the tool that actually offers this skill on Cloud Code, which lets you create these animations. Now, you have two ways of getting access to the API key. If you click over here where it says Pricing on the top left, just click on Pricing. You will see that in order to have API access, you need the Scale plan over here, which costs $999.
Now, for a lot of people, this might seem like it's a lot of money, but let me actually explain why this is actually cheap. So, basically, with this plan, you're actually getting 800 credits. And with 800 credits, you can generate 40 10-minute long videos. Or you can generate more than 200 short videos for Shorts or Instagram or TikTok. Now, that's a lot of videos because if you think about it, a good video editor usually costs $300, $500, even $1,000. If you go on Fiverr and you actually search for a really good video editor, you will see that the price is usually $300 for just a five-minute video, right? If you want a 15-minute video, you're going to pay $500. That's like $600, right? And this is just for one video. That's why the price actually makes a lot of sense.
But you also have different plans which don't give you the API key. So you have the Business plan, the Growth plan, the Creator plan. You can choose the Business plan, which basically offers almost everything in the Scale plan. You just don't get the API. But there's also a much cheaper option. If you scroll down, you can literally just get the plan, which gives you the API. As you can see over here, API Only Tier. And you're basically just paying for the credits. As you can see, to generate a one-minute video, you need two credits, which is $2, right? So basically, with $20, you can generate a 10-minute video. So instead of paying someone around $400 to $500 for a 10-minute video, you can use the GoPro API, pay $20 for a 10-minute video.
So in order to get this tier, all you want to do is click over here, Get API Access, and once you pay for the credits, you're going to have access to your API key. As you can see inside my account, I have this button over here which says Create API Key. If you click on this button, it's going to create an API key for you. What you want to do is copy that API key and then go back to Cloud Code and paste the API key over here. I'm not going to show you my API key because if I show you my API key, you're basically going to generate animations using my money, right? So, I'm not going to show you that.
So, the animation is ready. Cloud Code is telling us that the animation is ready and I'm super excited to show you how this animation actually looks. So, in order to check your animation, all you have to do is click on this URL over here, which says Watch on Goalpo. And what's cool about this is that it also added a voiceover, and it also created the script for us. So, let me show you how it looks.
Earth isn't just lucky, it's a cosmic marvel, positioned perfectly for liquid water, shielded by a powerful magnetic field, and kept stable by our large moon. Even our planet's geology with its plate tectonics helps regulate the climate. >> This is insane, by the way. >> Uniquely awesome. >> Like the drawings are beautiful. They look as if a human sketched this, right? And now you can literally download this video to your computer and use it in your video. You can see because of my webcam. So, I'm going to remove my webcam for a second. But over here, if you click on these three dots, you can see you have the download option. You click download, you download it to your computer over here. And now, as you can see, I'm playing it from my computer. I literally have the video myself.
And the crazy part is that I didn't even type in a script because what I usually do, I create the script for my channel for Denny and then I type in the script inside Cloud Code and based on that script, I create an animation that looks like this. And I actually want to show you guys how it actually works. So you can decide for yourself if this is worth it or not.
So for example, I'm going to ask Claude Code over here to write me a let's say write a 100-word script about why the brain is awesome and how it actually works, right? And what I'm going to do is, I'm going to copy the script over here and I'm going to ask Cloud Code to to create an animation in an editorial style using the Goalpost skill. And let's say this time we don't want to make a long-form video. Maybe we want to make a short video. Maybe we post Instagram video. So let's also prompt Cloud Code to make the video vertical and then tell Cloud Code to use the following script. So I'm going to paste the script we've just created with Cloud Code. Right? So I'm going to send this message and in two to three minutes we should have an animated video about why the brain is awesome.
So I'm going to click over here, allow once because it's always going to ask you to allow. And now let's just wait to see what it creates. Let's check out the video. This video is supposed to be about the brain and why the brain is awesome. And it needs to be vertical, right? It needs to fit for YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels or TikToks. Let's click over here to watch on Goalpo and see how it looks.
>> Why your brain is awesome. >> So, as you can immediately see, the style of the drawings are different because I typed editorial instead of whiteboard. And in my opinion, this looks much better. This is the style I actually use on my own channel. So, let me finish playing the video. And as you can see, by the way, the video is 53 seconds long, right? This is perfect for an Instagram Reel or for a YouTube Short or whatever.
>> Skull. It contains roughly 86 billion neurons. >> And you can see when it says 86 billion neurons, the text is synced to the voiceover. And that's something I really like. >> Each firing electrical signals up to 200 times. When it says electrical signals, it starts drawing the neuron with the electrical signals, right? It's very synced. >> Second, these neurons connect >> and now it says these neurons and it's showing more neurons. And what I like about this is the fact that it's it's so synced that it makes it pleasing to watch, right? It's actually very hard to tell that this was created with the AI >> through trillions of synapses forming networks that store memories, generate emotions, and solve problems. As I said, memories, emotion, problems, super synced with the voiceover. I love that about >> Goalpo all simultaneously. When you learn something new, your brain physically rewires itself. That's called neuroplasticity. And it never stops. It runs on just 20 watts of power, yet outperforms any machine on the planet at creativity, intuition, and empathy. The brain doesn't just control your life, it is your life. >> That's insane. I have no words how clean this looks. And I swear to God, after I post this video to YouTube, so many YouTubers are going to use this because right now I see nobody use it. I've been gatekeeping this for a long time. So, if you appreciate that I'm sharing this for free, I would appreciate if you subscribe to my channel.
Now, I want to show you how I'm actually using this on my own channel. So, if we go check out my videos over here, we will see that this video for me, for example, over here was posted one month ago. It got almost 60,000 views, which by the way, for my niche, that's a lot of views because I make educational content. And let me show you how my video looks. So, it's me and then I'm using Cloud Code to create the animations. As you can see, these animations over here are created with Cloud Code. And I'm now gonna speed up the video and I'm gonna move throughout the entire video to show you how my entire video uses these animations. So, as you can see, I have these animations over here which I created using Cloud Code and the Goalpost skill. And my entire video has these animations. Like we can go to the middle of the video. I still have the animations.
Now that you know how to create these animations, the next step is to understand how the YouTube algorithm works so you can actually make videos that get views. And if you want to learn about that, you might want to watch this video over here because inside this video, I talk about the YouTube algorithm and how it works. And not only that, but I'm using the same animations I've shown you in this video, inside this.