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.
Make it yours. 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.
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.
“All inside Claude, managed by Opus 5.5”
- Claude.ai
- Claude Opus 5.5
- Magnific
- Seedream 5 Pro
- GPT 2.5
- Kling 2.5
- Lyria 3
- Magnific MCP
- 1,500 Magnific credits
You'll need
- The Magnific MCP connected to Claude
- Magnific credits (this run used 1,500)
How it was made
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.
1,500 Magnific credits for all the images, video and music
Posted Sep 24, 2026 · X · 712 likes · 73k views · 23 comments
Prompt from: Reply on X
Look notesby Reference
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.
