Prompts / Google Flow
Hundreds of paper lantern boats float down a red-rock canyon river at night, a meteor flares gold overhead, and every lantern lifts into the sky, painterly animated style.
A Google Flow prompt, shown with the unedited 10-second clip it made (16:9).
Painterly 2D-3D hybrid animation like a prestige animated series: hand-painted brush textures, mature realistic proportions, muted shadows with warm highlights, soft volumetric haze, cinematic lighting and camera. 0-3 s: night in a deep red-rock canyon; hundreds of paper lantern boats float down a calm river, warm light on the water. 3-7 s: a meteor shower streaks overhead and one meteor flares bright gold. 7-10 s: every lantern lifts off the water at once and rises into the sky like a second river of light. Low drone glide over the water, then tilt up. Sound: gentle water, crickets, a soft wooden flute that swells. Full-frame 16:9 with no letterbox bars. No subtitles, no on-screen text, no watermark, no logos. 16:9, 10 seconds.
The style sentence leads so the canyon is painted, not photographed. "muted shadows with warm highlights" suits lantern light on dark water between red rock walls, and "cinematic lighting and camera" prepares the model for a scene lit almost only by the lanterns and the sky.
There is no main character, so the beats track the lanterns. They float in beat one. A meteor flares gold in beat two, which works as the trigger. They all lift in beat three. Making the meteor its own beat gives the rise a clear cause.
"Low drone glide over the water, then tilt up." The glide runs low over the floating lanterns and the calm river. The tilt up follows them as they rise, ending on the sky where the second river of light forms.
"Sound: gentle water, crickets, a soft wooden flute that swells." Water and crickets set the quiet canyon night in the first beats. The flute is written to swell, which matches the lanterns lifting in the last three seconds.
Rules at the end block letterbox bars, subtitles, on-screen text, watermarks and logos. Paper lanterns often carry painted lettering, so the no-text line is useful here. The last sentence keeps 16:9 and 10 seconds.
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