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First: create several smoke ink art stills with Midjourney (prompts in the ALTs), and once you have them ready (I used 5), tweak this prompt in @Hailuo_AI
{
"archetype": "Artistic / Fashion / Conceptual",
"duration": "15s",
"prompt": {
"concept": {
"title": "Ink Smoke Art – Kinetic Title Sequence",
"description": "Pure continuous 15-second one-take motion-graphics sequence in living black ink-smoke art. Five iconic characters form from swirling black smoke, stay in constant organic motion, and fluidly morph into the next every 3 seconds on a pure white void. Formation direction alternates left-right for artistic rhythm. Kinetic uppercase typography emerges from and interacts with the smoke itself on the complementary side, never flat overlay. Everything remains ultra-fluid, never static. Final short invitation text appears at the end.",
"duration": "15s",
"rhythm_structure": {
"0-3s": "[image1] forms right-to-left, text left",
"3-6s": "Morph to [image2] left-to-right, text right",
"6-9s": "Morph to [image3] right-to-left, text left",
"9-12s": "Morph to [image4] left-to-right, text right",
"12-15s": "Morph to [image5] right-to-left + final invitation text"
}
},
"camera_direction": {
"shot_type": "Strict continuous one-take, locked or micro-drift",
"forbidden": ["No cuts", "No teleportation", "No hidden transitions", "No freeze frames"],
"camera_journey": "Centered medium-wide framing on pure white void. Extremely slow subtle drift or completely locked. All energy comes from the living smoke and character motion; camera never cuts or reframes aggressively."
},
"typography": {
"allowed_words": [
"INK SMOKE ART",
"MOTION GRAPHICS",
"MIDJOURNEY + H3",
"PROMPTS by TechHalla",
"MAKE IT YOURS"
],
"treatment": {
"not_flat_overlay": true,
"required_properties": [
"Formed from dense black smoke particles and tendrils",
"Physical volumetric depth and thickness",
"Smoke occlusion and interaction with letters",
"Subtle continuous warping and particle shedding",
"Bold uppercase, high-impact condensed sans-serif weight",
"Kinetic emergence and dissolution synchronized to morphs and directional flow"
]
}
},
"visual_style": {
"overall": "Black ink smoke / smoke-ink art, ultra-high-contrast monochrome, pure white void background, volumetric living smoke with dense solid cores and wispy ethereal filaments",
"inspired_by": [
"[image1] – exact silhouette, long flowing hair, armor texture and smoke density",
"[image2] – exact suit silhouette, gun, coat edges and frontal presence",
"[image3] – exact spiky hair, martial pose, wristbands and full-body smoke mass",
"[image4] – exact cowl, cape flow and dramatic profile silhouette",
"[image5] – exact straw hat, back view, coat tails and dynamic stance"
],
"color_palette": ["pure black", "deep charcoal smoke gradients", "pure white void"],
"materials_and_texture": "Living ink smoke with variable density, continuous filament motion, soft volumetric edges that never fully solidify, constant micro-turbulence even when character is fully formed"
},
"motion_language": {
"follows_music": false,
"core_behavior": "Never static. Smoke is always in continuous organic swirl. Characters form while already animating (hair, cape, coat, pose micro-movements). Morphs happen only through smoke densifying, dissolving and reforming – no hard cuts, no dissolves, no freezes. Formation direction alternates every beat for balanced artistic rhythm. Every frame contains visible smoke motion."
},
"storyboard": {
"total_beats": 5,
"beat_duration": "3 seconds each",
"beats": [
{
"id": "01",
"time": "0.0–3.0",
"description": "Pure white void. Dense black smoke enters from the right edge and flows leftward, coalescing into the character from [image1] in profile. Long flowing hair and cloak already moving with dense smoke trails trailing right-to-left. Subtle head turn and breathing motion. Kinetic text “INK SMOKE ART” forms on the left side from the arriving smoke tendrils into bold uppercase letters that interact with and are partially occluded by the smoke. Everything remains in fluid motion."
},
{
"id": "02",
"time": "3.0–6.0",
"description": "The character from [image1] dissolves into swirling black smoke that reverses direction, now entering from the left edge and flowing rightward, reforming into the character from [image2] in frontal view. Suit, tie and gun materialize while coat edges continue smoking. Slow forward lean and head tilt. Previous text dissolves into smoke; new kinetic text “MOTION GRAPHICS” emerges on the right side from the arriving smoke mass into solid bold uppercase, still interacting with living tendrils."
},
{
"id": "03",
"time": "6.0–9.0",
"description": "The character from [image2] dissolves into dense black smoke that reverses again, entering from the right and flowing leftward, reforming into the character from [image3] in full-body fighting stance. Spiky hair, wristbands and muscular form solidify while smoke keeps swirling around limbs. Subtle power-stance micro-movement. Text “MIDJOURNEY + H3” forms on the left side kinetically from rising smoke particles into bold uppercase, partially wrapped by residual smoke filaments."
},
{
"id": "04",
"time": "9.0–12.0",
"description": "The character from [image3] dissolves into smoke that reverses, entering from the left and flowing rightward, reforming into the character from [image4] in dramatic profile. Cowl and long cape already billowing with heavy smoke trails. Subtle cape and shoulder motion continues. Text “PROMPTS by TechHalla” emerges on the right side from the trailing cape smoke into bold uppercase kinetic letters that flow and interact with the moving fabric-smoke."
},
{
"id": "05",
"time": "12.0–15.0",
"description": "The character from [image4] dissolves into final swirling black smoke that reverses once more, entering from the right and flowing leftward, reforming into the character from [image5] in rear three-quarter view. Straw hat, coat tails and dynamic stance solidify while smoke continues to rise and trail. All previous text has dissolved; residual smoke particles briefly reform the full set of titles in layered kinetic composition on both sides, then the short invitation text “MAKE IT YOURS” emerges centered from the final smoke mass into bold uppercase as the smoke begins a slow elegant dissipation into the white void, never fully static until end frame."
}
]
},
]
}
}
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Seedance 2.5 on @openart_ai
Prompt:
Create a 30-second vertical 9:16, 24fps, 8K-quality photorealistic live-action fantasy sequence from a first-person rider POV. A massive original obsidian-crimson dragon with individually detailed scales, subtle dark mottling, molten-gold eyes, volcanic-black swept-back horns, blade-like dorsal fins, burgundy-red translucent wings and faint ember-like fissures across its body. Rider wears black leather gloves, dark-green sleeves and weathered leather bracers, holding heavy chain reins from a worn brown studded saddle.
Begin with the dragon calmly breathing on a wet emerald coastal cliff; it slowly turns toward camera and the rider gently pets its neck. Suddenly it lowers its body, launches across the grass and leaps from the cliff. Dive steeply toward the grey-green ocean, deploy huge wings with realistic membrane movement, then skim just above the water with spray hitting the lens. Perform a dramatic high-speed bank around a sea stack, then plunge directly underwater. Brief dark-teal underwater silence with bubbles and faint crimson glow, followed by a powerful eruption through the ocean. Finish with a calm glide above foggy water as the dragon slowly turns and looks toward the rider.
Use physically accurate anatomy, weight, gravity, wing aerodynamics, water physics, scale deformation, wind and environmental interaction. Natural rider-mounted camera movement, realistic motion blur, lens droplets, focus breathing, subtle handheld vibration, cinematic depth of field, soft overcast lighting, HDR, restrained film grain and natural cinematic color grading.
Audio: atmospheric drone → intimate cello → rising orchestral tension → massive launch/flight score → intense percussion during the bank → muffled underwater audio → epic orchestral return during emergence → soft cello/piano ending. Layer detailed ASMR/SFX: dragon breathing, scales, leather, reins, claws scraping soil, wind, wingbeats, water spray, bubbles, ocean impact and a deep natural dragon roar.
Make it indistinguishable from expensive real live-action cinema. No AI look, cartoon, anime, game CGI, plastic textures, fake physics, neon glow, oversaturation, distorted anatomy, extra limbs, text or watermark.
Made with Seedance 2.5 on @dreamina_ai
Prompt: single continuous shot, one take no cuts, cinematic oner, cinematic lighting, photorealistic, 8K ultra-high-definition, hyperdetailed,
35mm film quality, professional color grading, sharp focus, high detail texture, film grain, depth of field mastery, steadicam fluidity
A lone rider tears through a violent tempest low over a black storm-tossed ocean on the back of a flying dragon, shot in full third
person. The rider is a young Indonesian man (use attached face reference — face fully visible, no helmet, black windswept hair
whipping in the storm), a wiry figure in layered fur-and-leather flight gear, a wind-torn dark cloak streaming behind, gloved hands
gripping a harness strap — a long dormant sword sheathed across his back, its hilt faintly glowing amber. The dragon is an original
design — a sleek serpentine flier with deep teal-black storm-scaled hide, broad membranous wings, ridged spine, and faint warm
amber bioluminescence glowing along its scale-seams and throat, the only warmth over a black sea. The storm rages in inky blue-
black and sea-foam white: towering thunderheads stacked over mountainous rolling waves, rain and spray streaking sideways,
lightning forking through the cloud canyons and striking the water. The hook arrives as a second, far larger leviathan-dragon erupting
head-on from a wall of sea-spray and fog — a crash zoom slams into the rider as he draws his sword, slow motion holding the blade-
ignition, before a cataclysmic light-slash cleaves the giant and its sundered body crashes into the ocean in twin geysers. The take is
one unbroken oner, the camera flowing from frontal tracking to rear chase to crash zoom, the only speed shift the slow-motion draw
before the slash. [VFX: amber scale-glow bioluminescence, colossal second dragon, volumetric sea-spray fog, lightning, molten
burning cut-seam, blinding light-blade slash arc, ocean-impact geysers and tidal spray]
Single continuous shot 15s: The shot opens on a frontal tracking medium close-up flying backward ahead of the rider — his
unmasked face filling the frame with wind-torn black hair and hard focused eyes, rain streaking past between him and the lens, the
dragon's head bobbing into frame beneath him as they skim just above a towering wave crest. The camera dynamically swings and
orbits around his shoulder to settle behind him, revealing the storm-choked open sea ahead, then chases low and tight as the dragon
weaves and snakes hard between rolling wave-mountains, wings carving the spray, banking left and right with the cloak lashing, the
amber scale-glow the only warmth in the inky-black storm. Without warning the colossal leviathan-dragon erupts head-on from a wall
of sea-fog directly ahead, its vast jaws opening — and the camera crash zooms into a medium shot of the rider as time violently
ramps into extreme slow motion: he rises on the saddle, face set with total resolve, and draws the sword from his back in one flowing
motion, the blade igniting into blinding amber-white light, rain and sea-spray hanging frozen around him, horizontal anamorphic
flares raking the lens, the giant's enormous amber eye looming huge and reflecting his tiny burning silhouette. Time cracks back to
full speed as he swings with his entire body — a colossal crescent arc of searing light erupts from the blade, tearing across the sky
and flooding the whole frame white, the shockwave blasting the storm clouds outward in a perfect expanding ring — and as the glare
fades a molten amber seam burns across the leviathan's full length where the arc passed, erupting in chains of white-gold
detonations as the colossal body sunders into two immense halves, each edge cauterized in glowing ember-light with no gore, the
severed silhouettes plummeting in opposite directions trailing fire and steam until they slam into the ocean below — twin apocalyptic
impacts that hurl up towering geysers of black water, send shockwave rings racing across the wave-tops, and briefly boil the sea to
mist; the camera pulls back into a vast trembling wide as the blast wave rocks the rider's dragon mid-air, the rider standing braced
on the saddle with the dimming sword lowered, a tiny victorious silhouette against the burning crash-glow, the falling ember-rain, and
the lightning-lit sea.
THE CONTACT-POINT METHOD THAT KEEPS A DRAGON RIDER CONSISTENT ACROSS 5 SHOTS IN SEEDANCE 2.0
One rider. One white dragon. A full aerial sequence from cloud height to a landing on Tower Bridge.
No face drift.
No dragon shrinking mid-shot.
No rider floating off the saddle.
Most creators tag two reference images and stop there — then wonder why the rider still looks glued on instead of secured.
The real consistency comes from writing the physical contact between the two references directly into the prompt, not just naming them.
Here's the workflow:
1. Write the character bible — rider: dark cloak, hood, saddle harness. dragon: grey-white scales, large wingspan, oversized but believable next to the rider
2. Generate a turnaround sheet for the rider in GPT Image 2.0
3. Generate an isolated dragon reference in GPT Image 2.0
4. Tag both as image1 and image2 inside one Seedance 2.0 prompt
5. Name every contact point — strap tension, hood pull in the wind, claws gripping stone
6. Lock the camera style once — 35mm, ARRI ALEXA look, natural light — for the whole sequence
7. Write it as one continuous multi-shot prompt, not separate cuts
Why this works:
- Naming contact points stops the model from floating the rider or misjudging scale
- Two tagged references mean it never re-decides who's who between shots
- One continuous prompt keeps wind and light consistent through every transition
- Locking camera style once removes drift between wide aerial shots and close trackers
Use cases:
⁃ Rider-and-creature cinematics over real landmarks
⁃ Any two-character sequence needing size and depth consistency
⁃ Epic aerial-to-landing arcs with a hard payoff shot
Claws on stone still needed one regeneration to sell the weight of the landing.
Still one prompt, one sequence, one dragon that never stops being a dragon.