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Starfall

A comet sheds a glowing bronze shape over snowy mountains, it crashes into a pine forest, and a child with a lantern finds an automaton waking up, painterly animated style.

A Google Flow prompt, shown with the unedited 10-second clip it made (16:9).

The prompt

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 over snow-covered mountains; a blazing comet streaks across the sky and a small bronze shape breaks away, glowing hot. 3-7 s: it crashes into a snowy pine forest; a child in a fur hood walks up to the crater holding a lantern. 7-10 s: a bronze automaton lies in the snow; its round eyes flicker on and it slowly reaches out a hand to the child. Wide, then close-up. Sound: a rushing roar, a muffled impact, ticking gears, a soft music-box theme. Full-frame 16:9 with no letterbox bars. No subtitles, no on-screen text, no watermark, no logos. 16:9, 10 seconds.

What each part of the prompt does

Look

Opening with style tells the model to paint a snowy night before staging the crash. "cinematic lighting and camera" matters because the comet, the hot bronze and the lantern are the only light sources. "mature realistic proportions" keeps the child and the automaton sized believably next to each other.

Timed beats

Three places, three actions. The comet sheds its bronze shape over the peaks. The shape crashes and the child walks to the crater. The automaton's eyes flicker on and it reaches out. Keeping the crash and the waking apart helps the final gesture land on its own.

Camera

"Wide, then close-up." Wide covers the sky, the comet and the crash into the forest. The close-up saves detail for the end, when the automaton's round eyes flicker on and its hand reaches toward the child.

Sound

"Sound: a rushing roar, a muffled impact, ticking gears, a soft music-box theme." The roar and the impact fill the first two beats. Ticking gears and the music box belong to the automaton waking, so the sound shrinks as the camera moves close.

Rules

Rules close the prompt: no letterbox bars, no subtitles, no on-screen text, no watermark, no logos. They keep the frame full and unmarked. "16:9, 10 seconds" then confirms the shape and runtime one last time.

Second by second

1. 0–3 s: night over snow-covered mountains; a blazing comet streaks across the sky and a small bronze shape breaks away, glowing hot.
2. 3–7 s: it crashes into a snowy pine forest; a child in a fur hood walks up to the crater holding a lantern.
3. 7–10 s: a bronze automaton lies in the snow; its round eyes flicker on and it slowly reaches out a hand to the child.

Make it yours

• Fox finds it: Replace "a child in a fur hood walks up to the crater holding a lantern" with "a red fox walks up to the crater" and "to the child" with "to the fox".
• Desert crash site: Change "night over snow-covered mountains" to "night over red desert mesas", "a snowy pine forest" to "a dry canyon" and "lies in the snow" to "lies in the sand".
• Vertical for Reels: Change both 16:9 mentions to 9:16. Replace "Wide, then close-up." with "Tilt down from the sky to the crater, then close-up." so the comet's fall runs down the tall frame.

Where this prompt is from

All the Google Flow film prompts are free on AI Video With Code.

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