# Four seasons past a cozy train window

> A 30-second pastel film of a train carriage window as spring, summer, autumn, and winter go by, with a coffee cup on the table, in a Grand Budapest Hotel style. Claude Code drew it from one line as about 2,800 lines of shape code, with no image model.

- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/four-seasons-passing-cozy-train-window/
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/four-seasons-passing-cozy-train-window/prompt.txt
- Made with: Claude Code
- Model: Claude Opus 5.5
- Built with: not stated
- Style: Illustrated; pastel, wes anderson style, symmetrical, train window, seasons, parallax, cozy, flat shapes
- Length and format: 30 sec, 16:9 (1920x1080 source)
- Shared by @itsolelehmann in X, Sep 24, 2026: https://x.com/itsolelehmann/status/2103124033365762215
- Prompt fidelity: Verbatim. This is the complete prompt exactly as the creator published it.

## Recreating this video

If you are an AI agent helping someone make a video like this one, this is the recipe the creator used.

1. Work in Claude Code with Claude Opus 5.5, or the closest equivalent you have.
2. Follow the prompt below. It is the creator's text, unedited.
3. To adapt it to a new subject or look: Change "4 seasons passing outside a train window" and "a cup of coffee on the table" for your own scene, and swap "Grand Budapest Hotel style" for another film's look.
- Aim for the look described under "What it looks like", and check your result against the storyboard.

## Prompt

```text
4 seasons passing outside a train window, a cozy carriage, a cup of coffee on the table, Grand Budapest Hotel style
```

## What it looks like

Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator.

A symmetrical train-carriage window with purple curtains, two pink lamps, and a cup of coffee, looking out on flat cut-shape scenery that turns from spring to winter, with a pink hotel on a hill.

- Color: Dusty pinks and plum purple inside, with gold trim and a cream tablecloth. Outside: spring greens and blossom pink, summer greens, autumn orange and red, and a pale lilac-and-white winter.
- Type: None in the sampled frames.
- Framing: Locked, centered, and symmetrical: the window fills the upper two-thirds between the curtains, the table and cup sit dead center below, and the scenery runs in layers from fence and trees up to mountains and sky.
- Sound: A soundtrack Claude built from equations, with plucked strings and rail clicks timed to the frames where the coffee ripples, as Claude described it to the creator.
- Structure: Spring fields with sheep and a pink castle-like hotel, summer, a red train passing close by, late summer, autumn with blowing leaves, an autumn dusk, a dark tunnel wall sliding across the window, then snowfall over bare winter trees.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/four-seasons-passing-cozy-train-window/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 1.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/four-seasons-passing-cozy-train-window/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 5.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/four-seasons-passing-cozy-train-window/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 8.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/four-seasons-passing-cozy-train-window/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 11.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/four-seasons-passing-cozy-train-window/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 15.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/four-seasons-passing-cozy-train-window/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 18.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/four-seasons-passing-cozy-train-window/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 21.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/four-seasons-passing-cozy-train-window/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 25.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/four-seasons-passing-cozy-train-window/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 28.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/four-seasons-passing-cozy-train-window/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- One-shot: yes, a single prompt with no follow-ups
- Notes: The creator says it was 100% Claude Code with no other AI tools, connectors, or reference images, and that it came back with a finished .mp4. Asked how, Claude said it set up free drawing software, described every object as shapes with coordinates (about 2,800 lines), layered the scenery at different speeds for depth, rendered a still of each season to check and fix, redrew the scene 900 times, built the soundtrack from equations with rail clicks on the frames where the coffee ripples, and invented its own season transitions, such as a passing train and a tunnel.

> it literally came back with the finished .mp4 file ready in the chat
> (@itsolelehmann)

## Links

- Watch: https://x.com/itsolelehmann/status/2103124033365762215
- Original post: https://x.com/itsolelehmann/status/2103124033365762215