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Animated scenes

20 animated scenes that sit behind the chat in the Claude desktop app. Made by Anthropic and shipped in the theme-examples plugin, version 0.4.3, under the Apache 2.0 license.

Copy the install prompt on any scene below and paste it into Claude Code. Claude installs the plugin and tells you the command that turns the scene on. All categories

  • Honu Lagoon

    Animated, light
    A live ASCII lagoon from above: a tile turtle swims by a sand island.

  • Koi Mosaic

    Animated, light
    A tiled koi pond from above: two koi, lily pads, slow ripples.

  • Halftone Dawn

    Animated, light
    A two-ink riso sunrise: halftone dots that breathe outward.

  • Halftone Dusk

    Animated, dark
    The riso sunrise on night-blue stock: an ember sun in breathing dots.

  • Plotter Tide

    Animated, light
    Pen-plotter tide lines drawing themselves on warm paper.

  • Plotter Tide, Night

    Animated, dark
    The plotter's tide chart in pale ink on blue-black night paper.

  • Dither Dunes

    Animated, light
    One-bit dunes on sand paper, shaded in dots, under a terracotta sun.

  • Dither Dunes Night

    Animated, dark
    The same dunes after dark: pale dots on umber, an ember sun.

  • Paper Garden

    Animated, light
    Cut-paper leaves at the edges of a warm white sheet, one coral bloom.

  • Paper Garden, Kraft

    Animated, dark
    Cut-paper leaves at the edges of dark kraft paper, one coral bloom.

  • Night Reef

    Animated, dark
    The lagoon after dark: a turtle and a ray that glow as they swim.

  • Snow Pines

    Animated, dark
    An ASCII pine forest at dusk, snow drifting down through the trees.

  • Braille Stars

    Animated, dark
    A slow night sky drawn dot by dot on a braille grid.

  • Block Clouds

    Animated, dark
    Night clouds built from blocks on a teletext grid, drifting in.

  • Vector Range

    Animated, dark
    Phosphor mountains on black; an amber beam keeps retracing them.

  • Departure Board

    Animated, dark
    An amber LED board re-lettering itself, row by row.

  • Blueprint

    Animated, dark
    A cyanotype sheet; a comet goes round its plotted orbit in the corner.

  • Deep Water

    Animated, dark
    Light falling through deep water, and one quiet turtle.

  • Aurora

    Animated, dark
    Northern lights swaying over a dark ridge.

  • Ember

    Animated, dark
    A warm glow in the corners and a few embers rising.