A celebration to be remembered.
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"prompt": "A small absurd creature standing in a backyard directly in front of the back door of a house. The creature is gloriously ridiculous and a fresh design - a rounded lightbulb-shaped body covered in soft periwinkle-blue fuzz that fades to pale yellow at the bottom, two stubby legs with big flat splayed feet, two short arms with little four-fingered paws, and a stubby curled tail. It has a wide friendly face with two large round eyes of different sizes stacked slightly off-center, a small triangular orange beak, two tall thin antennae topped with tiny leaf-shaped fins, and a single floppy ear on one side of its head. A row of three small round bumps runs down its back. It stands upright looking back toward the camera with a cheerful curious expression. The setting is a cozy suburban backyard on a warm evening - the back door of a house right behind the creature with a porch light glowing and a welcome mat, a couple of steps, potted plants beside the door, a lawn of green grass, a wooden fence, a patio with chairs and a grill, string lights overhead, a few trees, and a warm dusk sky fading orange and purple behind the house. Soft golden evening light. The whole scene is charming, cozy, and endearing, one weird little creature hanging out by the back door of a home. Hyperrealistic whimsical photography, suburban backyard at dusk, absurd creature design, warm evening lighting, 8K cinematic render."
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"prompt": "A first-person point-of-view shot looking out into a backyard at dusk, where a large array of consumer firework mortars is set up and ready to launch. The POV is from the perspective of a person standing at the edge of the yard looking out at the setup, as if seeing it through their own eyes, with no body, hands, feet, or any part of a person visible anywhere in the frame - just the view of the yard itself. In the grass ahead sits a long sturdy wooden board laid flat on the lawn, and mounted along it is a big row of cardboard mortar firework tubes - dozens of them lined up in racks, various sizes, colorful labels, fuses trailing, all pointed up at the sky, clearly store-bought fireworks arranged for a backyard show. The tubes are packed close together in a long impressive battery ready to go off. The setting is a suburban backyard on a warm summer evening - green grass, a wooden fence, a house with glowing windows behind, patio furniture, string lights, a few trees, and a deep dusk sky fading from orange at the horizon to purple and the first stars above, perfect for a fireworks display. Anticipation hangs in the air before the show begins. Warm fading evening light. The whole scene is exciting and full of pre-show anticipation, a big backyard fireworks setup seen through the viewer's own eyes. Hyperrealistic first-person POV photography, suburban backyard at dusk, dramatic evening sky, 8K cinematic render."
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Mode: Image-to-video using the attached reference image(s): image 1 for the creature's identity, image 2 for the fireworks display and backyard setting and art style. MULTI-SHOT edit. HARD CUTS between shots, no crossfades. Whimsical deadpan comedy: an overexcited creature sets off a big backyard fireworks show and ends up adorably soot-dusted. Cheerful and harmless. Create a 15-second comedy. A creature proudly sets off a colorful backyard fireworks show, ducks down, they all whoosh up into the sky in a dazzling display, and it is left cutely dusted in soot. Use the attached reference image(s) for identity. Keep the creature consistent across EVERY shot: a round white-and-navy bird-like creature with one big eye (plus a smaller eye), sprout antennae, a floppy ear, an orange beak, and a curly tail, in a dusk backyard with string lights, a brick stoop, and a fence. SHOT LIST: Shot 1 (0:00-0:03) MEDIUM The creature stands proudly in the dusk backyard, grinning with excited confidence, rubbing its hands together, clearly about to do something ambitious. CUT. Shot 2 (0:03-0:06) WIDE Cut to a big colorful cluster of party rockets and sparkler tubes of all sizes standing on a wooden board on the grass, a curly cord trailing along the ground from the base, ready for a show, cheerfully oversized. CUT. Shot 3 (0:06-0:09) MEDIUM The creature crouches and touches a tiny glowing spark to the tip of the curly cord trailing along the ground. The cord catches with a friendly fizz and the little spark scampers along it toward the rockets. It grins with delight. Only the cord fizzes, never the rocket bodies. CUT. Shot 4 (0:09-0:10.5) MEDIUM Realizing what it just started, the creature's eye goes huge, and it dives to the ground, ducking and covering its head with its arms. CUT. Shot 5 (0:10.5-0:13) WIDE The rockets all whoosh UP off the board, streaking high into the night sky one after another, then bloom far overhead in huge colorful sparkling bursts filling the air above. The board empties as they all fly upward, dazzling and chaotic. CUT. Shot 6 (0:13-0:15) CLOSE The haze clears on the creature sitting up, cutely dusted head to toe in grey soot, feathers frazzled, blinking its big eye in dazed silence, a little puff of smoke rising off it. Hold. Audio: Excited jaunty anticipation music, a confident hand-rub, a friendly fizzing sparkle. Then a cheerful barrage of whistling rockets and big sparkling firework pops filling the sky. A beat of ringing silence, then a tiny cough and a soft settling-dust sound on the sooty reveal. No dialogue. No subtitles. Style: Bold painterly illustration matching the references, thick brushwork, rich saturated dusk palette, expressive cartoon face, deadpan whimsical comedic tone, film-quality animation. Negative Prompt: match, lighter, matchstick, rocket bodies on fire, rocket tips burning, fireworks bursting on the ground, fireworks staying on the ground, ground explosion, scary mood, gore, injury, burns, harm to the creature, second creature, duplicate creature, changed colors, missing antennae, missing beak, deformed face, blurry face, crossfades, dissolves, photorealism, gibberish text, on-screen text, subtitles
He kept lighting the top of the fireworks instead of the fuse. Finally had to make sure there were no fuse like attachments anywhere else on the second image.