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It's always the same. First lock the initial frame with Magnific One and a prompt like this:
DIRECTIVE:
Produce one still that reads as an unpublished photograph taken by a tourist on holiday. Optical capture, available physics, lived-in detail.
SUBJECT:
The man from the reference image, same face, bald crown, long dark curly hair, greying beard and heavy build, dressed as Dracula: black cape with a high red-lined collar, black waistcoat, raising a gold chalice.
Beside him a woman with long black hair and dark lipstick lounges in a black wooden coffin turned into a steaming jacuzzi, bubbling water, also raising a gold chalice.
A black cat sits on the battlement next to them. A black speaker on the stones.
All of them small and far away, standing on the top terrace of the castle.
ACTION / BEAT:
They are toasting with the chalices up on the castle, while down in the square nobody has noticed yet.
A caught moment.
SCENE:
The cobbled main square of a small town in Transylvania, with pastel Saxon houses with steep tiled roofs. A dark medieval castle with towers stands on a steep rocky wooded hill right behind the square.
Tourists wander, take photos, eat ice cream. A young couple in the foreground of the square, hand in hand, looking at a shop window.
One of the shops has a hanging medieval wrought-iron sign, carved and painted wood, that reads TECHHALLA.
Late afternoon in autumn, overcast.
COMPOSITION:
Shot type: wide, the square in the lower part, the castle on the hill filling the upper half
Angle: eye level from the square, slightly tilted up
Placement: castle and the toasting group upper center, the young couple lower right, the TECHHALLA sign lower left
Foreground: the shoulder and a raised phone of another tourist, blurred
Crop: handheld, slightly imperfect.
CAMERA PACK:
Body: Samsung Galaxy A54
Lens / zoom: main camera, 1x
Aperture or phone mode: standard photo
Focus: sharp on the square and the castle
Film or sensor: small phone sensor, JPEG compression, mild noise
LIGHT:
Source: flat overcast sky, warm shop lights starting to glow
Quality: soft grey daylight
Color temperature: cool 6000K, warm accents from the shop windows
Shadows follow that source.
PHOTOGRAPHIC CHARACTER:
Worn cobblestones, damp stone, weathered plaster, fabric creases.
Grain or sensor texture that matches the camera pack.
Highlights a little hot, shadows a little closed.
Candid tourists, unaware of the camera.
Then use Seedance 2.5 to animate it, you can add extra character sheets if needed. Here's the prompt
[STYLE + CAMERA + ATMOSPHERE]
Real amateur phone video, one continuous 30-second take with no cuts, filmed by a tourist standing in the crowded cobbled main square of a medieval town in Transylvania. Handheld vertical phone, shaky grip, restless digital zoom pushing in and pulling back, smeary detail when zoomed, compression, autofocus hunting. Grey late-October afternoon, flat overcast light, a little haze around the castle hill.
[IMAGE REFERENCES]
[ref_1] is the first frame: the video starts exactly on it, and the square, the shops, the medieval hanging sign that reads "TECHHALLA" and the castle on its hill keep the look of [ref_1]. [ref_2] is the redneck man (face, bald crown, long dark curly hair at the back, greying beard, heavy build); in this video he wears a Count Dracula outfit: black cape with a high red-lined collar and a black waistcoat. [ref_3] is the woman (face, long wavy dirty-blonde hair). Ignore the grey backgrounds and the clothes of [ref_2] and [ref_3].
[TIMELINE]
0-3s: Exactly [ref_1], and the square is alive from the first frame: tourists stroll, eat chimney cakes, take selfies; a young couple holds hands near the camera. Faint death metal echoes from the top of the castle and a few people look up.
3-7s: [Crash digital zoom up to the top of the castle tower] Grainy and soft: on the open stone terrace at the top of the highest tower, the man from [ref_2] in his Dracula cape raises a golden chalice; the woman from [ref_3] lies in a black wooden coffin turned into a steaming hot tub, raising her own golden chalice. A big loudspeaker blasts death metal on the battlements. A black cat sits on the edge of the parapet.
7-11s: [Tight push-in] They clink their golden chalices and drink. He wipes his mouth with the cape, steps up onto the parapet next to the cat and spreads the cape wide like wings. The tourists below start pointing and shouting.
11-14s: [Medium] He and the black cat jump off the parapet together into the void. The woman stays in the coffin tub and raises her chalice to them.
14-18s: [Chasing, shaky zoom out] He falls along the castle wall with the cape flapping, the cat falling beside him. Halfway down, in a burst of black smoke, the man turns into a big black bat and the cat turns into a small black bat. The crowd screams.
18-22s: [Wide] The two bats swoop down the hill and over the red-tiled roofs, straight across the square, over the heads of the tourists, toward the young couple near the camera.
22-26s: [Close, phone shaking] Right in front of the couple, in another puff of black smoke, the bats turn back into the man in the Dracula cape and the black cat. He grabs the young man by the shoulders, bares his teeth and leans toward his neck; the cat hisses with its fangs out at the girl. The couple scream.
26-30s: [Wide, zoom out, chaos] Everyone in the square runs away in panic: tourists drop their chimney cakes, chairs tip over at the cafés, a souvenir stand of Dracula mugs topples. The phone whips around while the tourist filming runs too, the "TECHHALLA" sign swinging in the corner of the frame. Up on the tower, tiny, the woman in the coffin hot tub still raises her golden chalice.
[AUDIO]
Tourist chatter in several languages close to the phone, distant tinny death metal from the castle that gets louder when zoomed in, the clink of the chalices, wind and cape flapping during the fall, a whoosh of smoke at each transformation, bat wings flapping, a cat hiss, the couple screaming, the crowd screaming and running, chairs falling, footsteps on cobblestones. No subtitles, no score.
[STYLE & QUALITY BOOSTERS]
Photorealistic phone footage, everything real and grounded, real digital zoom artifacts, coherent physics, the transformations are quick puffs of black smoke like a real practical effect, exactly one vampire man, one woman, one black cat and one young couple, stable identities, natural motion blur, the bite never lands: nobody is hurt.
Let's go! 🧛♀️
Tips 9-12/16 · VIDEO
Now make it move. Kling 4.0 is insane if you feed it the right refs:
9. Omni-Ref: up to 7 images
10. One action per shot
11. The style tail
12. Fire all at once
Tip 12 alone saved me a ton of credits, for real!
Same process as in the previous video.
We generated the characters and environment with Midjourney (you can find the prompts in the screenshots), and once we had everything ready, we started animating in Seedance 2.5 (low-cost draft mode, locally upscaled to 60fps) using this prompt:
Mythic large-scale combat filmed like an epic graphic-novel war film, completely believable and grounded in real physics: the creature has real crushing weight, every step shakes the camera, every blow carries real momentum and misses the heroine by inches, she survives only by reading each attack at the last instant. Extreme speed ramps from full speed into razor-sharp slow motion and back, bullet-time freezes with the camera orbiting through suspended debris, heroic low angles, crushed desaturated colors with deep blacks, pale stone and deep green jade, hard backlight cutting silhouettes through drifting quartz dust, aggressive anamorphic 35mm, heavy motion blur at full speed, crisp detail in slow motion, constant camera movement, hard cuts every 1-2 seconds, no pauses. Close-ups only on the heroine; the creature is always shown in wide or medium shots that keep its full scale.
Use the [image1] image as exact reference for the environment: a very ancient abandoned quarry of pale jade and white quartz, a wide flat open stone floor dusted with white quartz powder, towering walls of huge stacked cut blocks on both sides, clusters of white quartz crystal bursting out of the cracks, a narrow gorge between dark mountains at the back, wind-blown dust. Use the [image2] multi-view sheet as exact appearance lock for the heroine: tall lean woman whose head and face are completely hidden under a hood of fine dark steel chainmail that drapes to her shoulders, no face ever visible, layered torn charcoal robes, bare arms with engraved dark metal vambraces, engraved greaves, leather belt, barefoot, a long thin curved steel sword. Use the [image3] multi-view sheet as exact appearance lock for the creature: an ancient statue of a creature carved in dark translucent green jade, four times her height, extremely tall and gaunt, standing on two long digitigrade legs with clawed feet, very long thin arms ending in long hooked claws that reach below its knees, a long narrow curved head that bends forward, a ridged spine, old chips and fine cracks in the jade.
0-2.5s: [Extreme Wide, Low Angle, Slow Push] Slow motion. The heroine walks barefoot across the empty quarry floor through drifting quartz dust, sword low. At the far end, the jade creature TOWERS completely motionless, half sunk into the quarry wall like a relic the mountain has kept for thousands of years, dust settling on its head.
2.5-4s: [Close-Up Heroine, Tracking] She stops and drops into a low combat stance, sword raised over her shoulder, chainmail hood swaying in the wind, dust curling around her bare feet. Behind her, out of focus, the first cracks run across the wall around the statue.
4-6.5s: [Wide, Ground Level, Speed Ramp] The creature wakes and pulls its entire body out of the wall in one movement: the blocks split cleanly around its silhouette, it unfolds its long limbs and steps out whole and complete onto the quarry floor, nothing of it left behind, only an empty creature-shaped hollow in the wall. Its first step cracks the floor and throws up a ring of white dust.
6.5-8.5s: [Full Speed into Bullet Time Orbit] She sprints straight at it and leaps, slashing at its leg with everything she has. Freeze-frame bullet time, camera orbiting around the impact: sparks, the steel blade bends and snaps in two against the jade, the upper half of the sword spins away high into the air, turning end over end. The jade is barely scratched.
8.5-10s: [Speed Ramp + Wide] Full speed: the snapped blade cartwheels across the sky and stabs into the floor far behind her. She lands, looks at the useless broken hilt in her hand and throws it away; from now on her hands are completely empty. The creature's long arm sweeps its claws through the space where her head was a split second ago, the wind of it tearing at her robes.
10-12s: [Low Tracking, Handheld] She runs, empty-handed. A clawed jade hand slams down half a meter behind her heels, the floor exploding into shards, fragments whipping past her. She dives, rolls, keeps running without slowing.
12-14s: [Side Tracking, Slow Motion Burst] The creature rakes its claws horizontally at waist height; she throws herself flat into a slide across the dusty floor and the five long claws pass just over her body in slow motion, close enough to snag the edge of her chainmail hood, then full speed as she springs back up.
14-16s: [Wide, Overhead] It stamps down with its clawed foot; she cartwheels sideways off one hand as the foot lands exactly where she was, a shockwave of quartz dust blasting her several meters across the floor. She tumbles, plants her empty hand on the floor, skids to a stop.
16-18s: [Medium, Orbiting] The creature tears a huge cut block out of the wall and hurls it. She runs straight toward it, leaps, plants a foot on the flying block in mid-air and vaults over it in bullet time as it explodes behind her against the wall, quartz crystals shattering into glittering fragments.
18-20s: [Close-Up Heroine, Low Angle] She lands on one knee, her hands bare and empty, and slams both open palms onto the stone floor. The energy attack begins: a deep pulse shakes the whole quarry, the chainmail hood whips back in a sudden wind, all the dust around her lifts off the ground in a slow expanding ring, every quartz crystal in the walls lights up from inside with cold white light, and a blinding seam of energy tears out from her hands across the floor like a crack of light.
20-22s: [Wide, Speed Ramp] The creature charges her, claws drawn back for the killing blow. The seam of light races past its feet, climbs the quarry wall through the glowing quartz and splits the whole mountain face above in a jagged line of white fire.
22-24.5s: [Bullet Time Orbit, Wide] The claws drive down at her; she rolls backwards out from under them as they gouge the floor an arm's length from her hood. Frozen moment: she hangs mid-roll in the air, the creature behind her, and the entire wall of stacked blocks above it breaking loose along the line of light, thousands of tons of stone and crystal starting to fall.
24.5-27s: [Extreme Wide, Ground Level, Slow Motion to Full Speed] The mountain collapses onto the creature. It turns its long head up as the avalanche of giant blocks and quartz crashes over it and buries it completely. A tidal wave of white dust rolls across the quarry floor toward the camera. She sprints away and dives behind a fallen block as the dust swallows the frame.
27-28.5s: [Close-Up Heroine, Push-In Through Dust] The dust thins. She rises behind the block, breathing hard, chainmail hood rising and falling with her breath, white dust caked on her vambraces, staring at the new mountain of rubble.
28.5-30s: [Wide, Locked Low Angle] Open ending. The rubble pile shifts. Blocks slide and roll down its sides as something enormous pushes up from underneath, and a long green jade arm with hooked claws breaks out of the pile into the dust. Cut to black.
Real footage look, physically believable weight, momentum and scale, every blow a near miss by inches, ultra-detailed stone and jade fracture and debris simulation, dense volumetric dust, coherent anatomy and proportions, the heroine's face never visible, after she throws away the broken hilt at 9 seconds she holds nothing at all in her hands for the rest of the video, no sword, no hilt, no weapon, stable character consistency, constant camera movement, no static frames, movie-level VFX polish.
hope you like it! 🫡
Let's start with the 3 image references, one for the environment and 2 for the characters. You can find the Midjourney prompts in the ALTs of the images.
Then, use them as reference in Seedance 2.5 along with this prompt
Hyper-kinetic non-stop combat, zero pauses, every shot full of motion, extreme high-intensity action filmed like real footage, overcast misty daylight, drifting mountain fog, aggressive handheld 35mm with heavy motion blur, whip pans and hard cuts every 1-2 seconds, crash zooms, debris and water spray constantly in the air, ultra-realistic smoke, dust and particle systems.
Use the provided image <> as exact reference for the environment: grassy alpine meadow with grey limestone boulders, crumbling cliff edge with waterfalls pouring into the misty valley, limestone floating islands with pine trees and hanging roots, giant rock wall with hanging roots on the right, river far below. Use the multi-view sheet as exact appearance lock for the beast <>: hulking gorilla-like brute made of dense billowing black smoke, twice the height of the samurai, massive shoulders and long arms, knuckle-walking on clawed hands, glowing red eyes with a band of red embers across its face, wisps of smoke rising off its back. Use the multi-view character sheet <> as exact appearance lock for the ronin samurai (black oni menpo mask, long black hair in a loose high ponytail, scarred dark skin, torn sleeveless off-white kimono top, single red lacquered shoulder guard, thick rope belt, katana and short sword in cracked red scabbards, bandaged forearms and shins, tattered blue-grey hakama, straw sandals).
0-2s: [Extreme Wide Crash-In] The beast charges across the meadow on its knuckles, smoke trailing; the samurai sprints at it, draws the katana mid-run. Collision. Shockwave of grass, dirt and black smoke.
2-4s: [Low Tracking] Beast swings a huge clawed fist; samurai slides under it on his knees, katana slicing through the forearm. The smoke splits and snaps back together instantly.
4-6s: [Whip Pan + Medium] Beast backhands him; he flies into a limestone boulder that shatters. He rolls out of the debris and is already running back.
6-8s: [Handheld Over-the-Shoulder] Three fast cuts in a row: diagonal slash across the chest, spinning slash across the ribs, rising slash under the jaw. Each cut sprays smoke and red embers.
8-10s: [Overhead Top-Down] Beast slams both fists into the ground. The meadow cracks open, a chunk of the cliff edge breaks off and falls with its waterfall. The samurai leaps across the crack at the last moment.
10-12s: [Orbiting Wide] The samurai jumps off the falling rock onto the nearest floating island, runs along its edge between the pine trees. The beast leaps after him, smoke stretching like a comet tail.
12-14s: [Dutch Angle Close Combat] On the floating island: beast swipes, splinters a pine tree; samurai ducks, draws the short sword with his left hand, now fighting with both blades.
14-16s: [Crash Zoom] Twin-blade flurry: katana to the shoulder, short sword stabbed into the glowing red eye. The beast roars, the red embers flare.
16-18s: [Low Angle Slow-Motion Ramp] Beast grabs him by the torso and hurls him off the island. He falls through the waterfall spray, catches a hanging root, swings and launches himself back up.
18-20s: [Tracking Side Shot] The samurai runs straight down the giant rock wall, through the hanging roots, and drops onto the beast's back from above, driving the katana between its shoulders.
20-22s: [Handheld Frenzy] Beast thrashes, smoke tendrils whip around him and lash his back, drawing blood. He rides it, stabbing three times with the short sword, then rips the katana free.
22-24s: [Wide Push-In] Both crash back down onto the meadow in an explosion of dirt and smoke. The beast rises on its hind legs, arms raised for a final smash.
24-26s: [Slow-Motion Impact] The samurai runs between its legs and delivers a spinning horizontal slash that cuts the beast in half at the waist; then a leaping two-handed overhead cut that splits its head down the middle.
26-28s: [Wide to Tight] The beast's entire body bursts into a storm of black smoke and dying red embers, swept over the cliff edge by the wind and down the waterfalls. The samurai lands on one knee at the edge, blades lowered.
28-30s: [Hard Cut Reverse Extreme Close-Up] Blurred samurai fills the foreground, chest heaving, sweat and dirt streaking his oni mask. Sharp background: on the nearest floating island, the scattered smoke pulls itself back together into the beast, two red eyes igniting one after the other, staring at him.
Real footage look, ultra-detailed fabric physics and smoke simulation, perfect motion blur, coherent anatomy and proportions, stable character consistency, constant camera movement, no static frames, no slow idle moments, movie-level VFX polish.
Lemme know if you like this kind of prompt sharing, I got much more to show! 😎
ALT Amateur travel photo of real floating islands in the sky, taken on a hike, eye-level, a wide flat alpine meadow crosses the middle of the frame from the left edge to the right edge, short trampled grass, scattered grey limestone rocks, the meadow ends at a crumbling rocky edge with open sky below it, all around the meadow several massive floating islands of rough limestone rock hang in the air at different distances, each island has pine trees and grass on top, tangled roots hanging from its jagged underside, and tall waterfalls pouring off its edges and falling hundreds of meters into the mist, more waterfalls spill from our own meadow's edge, a hazy alpine valley with a river far below, flat overcast sky, dull natural daylight, slightly underexposed, everything in focus, shot on a Sony A7 III with a 24mm lens, Kodak Portra 400 film scan, visible grain, unretouched, real photograph --no cgi, 3d render, illustration, painting, concept art, fantasy art, cartoon, people, animals
ALT Character turnaround sheet, three full-body views of the same warrior side by side: front view, side profile, back view, standing neutral pose, muscular battle-worn ronin samurai, weathered black lacquered menpo face mask with snarling mouth, long black hair tied in a messy high topknot with loose strands, sleeveless torn white kimono top, bare scarred arms wrapped in dirty cloth bandages, crimson-red lacquered shoulder guard on one shoulder only, wide tattered indigo hakama trousers frayed at the hem, thick rope belt with a katana in a cracked red scabbard, straw sandals with wrapped ankles, dust and dried blood stains on fabric, hyper-detailed fabric texture, plain light grey studio background, soft even lighting, photorealistic 3D character concept art, consistent design across all views --ar 16:9 --raw --profile gmp8pps --hd
ALT Creature turnaround sheet, three full-body views of the same monster side by side: front view, side profile, back view, standing neutral pose, colossal beast made entirely of dense black smoke, hulking quadruped silhouette with massive hunched wolf-like shoulders, long low skull and elongated clawed forelegs, roughly three times the height of a man, the body is solid dense smoke at the core and tears into ragged billowing tendrils at the edges, no skin, no fur, no armor, two piercing glowing red eyes with faint red embers drifting off them, thin wisps trailing from the spine and tail, plain light grey studio background, soft even lighting, photorealistic 3D creature concept art, consistent design across all views --ar 16:9 --raw --profile gmp8pps --hd
1st: lock the initial frame with Magnific One
2nd: create extra assets, as this ornithopter
3rd (optional): add character sheets for your characters
4th: animate it with Seedance 2.5
Prompts are in the 12th page of my The Prompt Plaza Space! 👇
xitter.cf/techhalla/status/21042…
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putting all my best image and video prompts together in one space 🫡
already 100+ people in there, don't miss out!
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Lock the 1st frame with Magnific One, then generate the character sheets and extra assets for more control, and finally attach them to Seedance 2.5.
All the prompts are just right here (page 11), in my Prompt Plaza Space!
xitter.cf/techhalla/status/21042…
putting all my best image and video prompts together in one space 🫡
already 100+ people in there, don't miss out!
magnific.com/app/spaces/a2cf…