# Infinite-zoom loop through vintage objects

> A seamless 20-second infinite-zoom loop in a vintage collage style: the camera flies through a pocket watch, a camera lens, a magnifying glass and a hand mirror into each next landscape. Opus 5.5 made every asset through the Magnific MCP, inside Claude.

- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/looping-infinite-zoom-vintage-collage/
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/looping-infinite-zoom-vintage-collage/prompt.txt
- Made with: Claude.ai
- Model: Claude Opus 5.5
- Built with: not stated
- Services: Magnific, Seedream 5 Pro, GPT 2.5, Kling 2.5, Lyria 3
- Skills or plugins: Magnific MCP
- Style: Motion graphics; infinite zoom, seamless loop, vintage collage, halftone cutouts, surreal, parallax, film grain
- Length and format: 20 sec, 16:9 (1920x1080 source)
- Shared by @koldo2k in X, Sep 24, 2026: https://x.com/koldo2k/status/2103129343253778767
- 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.ai with Claude Opus 5.5, or the closest equivalent you have.
2. Set up what the prompt expects: The Magnific MCP connected to Claude; Magnific credits (this run used 1,500).
3. Follow the prompt below. It is the creator's text, unedited.
4. To adapt it to a new subject or look: Rewrite the WORLDS line, from "snowy mountains" to "back to start", with your own landscapes and portal objects, and change LOOK for another style. Keep the HOW rules for a constant exponential zoom and seamless cuts.
- Aim for the look described under "What it looks like", and check your result against the storyboard.

## Prompt

```text
Build a looping "infinite zoom" animation, After Effects style: the camera
travels from landscape to landscape by flying through vintage objects.

LOOK: vintage collage realistic photo landscapes + black & white newspaper
cutout objects (halftone, white paper border, soft shadow). Film grain,
vignette, light flicker.

WORLDS (loop): snowy mountains → pocket watch (swinging on its chain) →
sea cliffs → box camera lens → desert dunes → magnifying glass →
misty lake → hand mirror → back to start.
Extras: floating hat, phone, umbrella, gramophone, key; a 1950s man walking
toward the watch; a whale swimming across the cliffs sky.

HOW:
- Generate everything via the Magnific MCP (Seedream 5 Pro landscapes,
  GPT 2.5 transparent cutouts, depth maps, Kling 2.5 animation, Lyria 3
  music). List the generations + credit cost and wait for my OK first.
- Split each landscape into 3 depth layers from its depth map and fill the
  hidden areas. Parallax: layer scale = camera^Z, Z between 0.45 and 1.22.
- Each portal's glass holds the next world; cut seamlessly when it fills
  the frame.
- Constant speed: exponential zoom to a fixed point, each segment's duration
  proportional to log(zoom). Verify the cuts frame by frame.
- Man & whale: generate on pure green (#00B140), animate in place with
  Kling, key out every frame, build a seamless loop (ping-pong if needed).
- Cutouts animate at 15 fps (on twos).
- 20 s loop, 1920×1080, 30 fps. Music: 96 BPM, cut to exactly 8 bars = 20 s.

DELIVER: an interactive artifact (viewer, AE-style timeline, music +
MP4 download) and a rendered MP4 with music under 30 MB.
Show me screenshots before each expensive step.
```

## What it looks like

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

A collage in which each vintage object is a portal: a pocket watch over snowy mountains holds sea cliffs, a box camera's lens holds desert dunes, a magnifying glass holds a misty lake, and a hand mirror leads back to the start.

- Color: Muted, faded photographic landscapes (sky blue, sand, moss green, lake gray) under film grain, with black-and-white halftone cutouts edged in white paper.
- Type: No on-screen text.
- Framing: Each portal object sits near the center, from a small prop to a ring that fills the frame, with smaller cutout props (a key, a gramophone, a bowler hat, an umbrella, a whale) floating around it and the horizon in the lower third.
- Sound: Music generated through the Magnific MCP, according to the creator; the prompt asks for 96 BPM, cut to exactly eight bars.
- Structure: Snowy mountains with a 1950s man walking toward a pocket watch, sea cliffs with a whale in the sky, the box camera lens, desert dunes, the magnifying glass, a misty lake, the hand mirror, and back to the mountains.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/looping-infinite-zoom-vintage-collage/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 1.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/looping-infinite-zoom-vintage-collage/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 3.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/looping-infinite-zoom-vintage-collage/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 5.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/looping-infinite-zoom-vintage-collage/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 7.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/looping-infinite-zoom-vintage-collage/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 10.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/looping-infinite-zoom-vintage-collage/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 12.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/looping-infinite-zoom-vintage-collage/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 14.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/looping-infinite-zoom-vintage-collage/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 16.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/looping-infinite-zoom-vintage-collage/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 18.9s: https://meetreference.com/media/looping-infinite-zoom-vintage-collage/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- One-shot: no
- Reported spend: 1,500 Magnific credits for all the images, video and music
- Notes: The creator calls this the initial prompt. It has Claude list every generation with its credit cost and wait for an OK, and show screenshots before each expensive step, so the run had further turns; those weren't published. Asked whether it was Claude alone or with MCP, the creator said the Magnific MCP made the images, video and music, "All inside Claude, managed by Opus 5.5." Claude also built an artifact for tweaking variants, rendering and downloading, and explained its process when asked.

> All inside Claude, managed by Opus 5.5
> (@koldo2k)

## Links

- Watch: https://x.com/koldo2k/status/2103129343253778767
- Original post: https://x.com/koldo2k/status/2103129343253778767
- Prompt, posted as a reply: https://x.com/koldo2k/status/2103129347791986942