# Sci-fi morning routine with a world reveal

> A 30-second widescreen sci-fi short: a woman's morning in a dingy apartment ends on her balcony with a reveal of a vast city. Opus 5.5 directed it from one paragraph and three images, using Luma's Uni 1.1, Seedance 2.5, and DaVinci Resolve.

- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/sci-fi-short-morning-routine-that-ends/
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/sci-fi-short-morning-routine-that-ends/prompt.txt
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: Claude Opus 5.5
- Built with: DaVinci Resolve Studio
- Services: Luma Uni 1.1, Seedance 2.5
- Style: Short films; sci-fi, cinematic, photoreal, widescreen, world reveal, color graded
- Length and format: 30 sec, 21:9 (1920x822 source)
- Shared by @AIWarper in X, Sep 30, 2026: https://x.com/AIWarper/status/2105370568178479476
- 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. The creator didn't say which agent they used; the model was Claude Opus 5.5. Any capable coding agent should work.
2. Set up what the prompt expects: Access to Luma's Uni 1.1 image model and Seedance 2.5; DaVinci Resolve Studio that the agent can control; Your own reference images: the creator attached a character turnaround, a still of the character, and a view of a vast city from a balcony.
3. Follow the prompt below. It is the creator's text, unedited.
4. To adapt it to a new subject or look: Rewrite the sequence after "What I picture is" with your own character and setting, and keep a closing beat like "the camera pulls back to reveal this massive world (that is the reveal)". Attach your own character and world images in place of the creator's three.
- Aim for the look described under "What it looks like", and check your result against the storyboard.

## Prompt

```text
What I picture is a sequence of her waking up and it's her morning routine in this dingy apartment complex she lives in (sci fi). She wakes up, does her morning routine, makes a pot of coffee, then heads out on the balcony and lights a cigarette. Then we cut to this macro wide of her leaning on the railing as the camera pulls back to reveal this massive world (that is the reveal).
```

## What it looks like

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

A muted, photoreal morning in a cramped apartment, told in close details, ending on a wide of a balcony beneath a vast megastructure city.

- Color: Desaturated slate blue and grey with pale skin, white hair, and a single warm flame; the city is a hazy grey-brown.
- Type: One small letterspaced title, ANOTHER MORNING, at the lower right of the final wide.
- Framing: Ultra-wide frames at about 2.35:1. Tight, often off-center close-ups (a face on a pillow, bare feet on tile, a kettle, a tap, a mug) before the frame opens onto the balcony and the city.
- Structure: Waking in bed, bare feet on the tiled floor, a kettle on the stove beside a robotic hand, leaning over the sink, coffee poured into a mug, a step out to the balcony, a cigarette lit with a lighter in the robotic hand, smoking against the skyline, then the wide of an overhanging megastructure with the title ANOTHER MORNING.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/sci-fi-short-morning-routine-that-ends/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 1.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/sci-fi-short-morning-routine-that-ends/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 5.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/sci-fi-short-morning-routine-that-ends/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 8.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/sci-fi-short-morning-routine-that-ends/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 11.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/sci-fi-short-morning-routine-that-ends/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 15.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/sci-fi-short-morning-routine-that-ends/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 18.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/sci-fi-short-morning-routine-that-ends/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 21.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/sci-fi-short-morning-routine-that-ends/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 25.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/sci-fi-short-morning-routine-that-ends/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 28.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/sci-fi-short-morning-routine-that-ends/f9.webp

## How it was made, per the creator

- One-shot: yes, a single prompt with no follow-ups
- Notes: Uni 1.1, Luma's image model, made the frames and Seedance 2.5 the video; Opus edited, graded, and post-processed autonomously in DaVinci Resolve Studio. The creator says Opus made the creative decisions, but their Claude has many stored memories criticising boring cinematography, especially subjects placed dead center, which may bias the result.

> It made the creative decisions based on that prompt.
> (@AIWarper)

## Links

- Watch: https://x.com/AIWarper/status/2105370568178479476
- Original post: https://x.com/AIWarper/status/2105370568178479476
- Prompt, posted as a reply: https://x.com/AIWarper/status/2105370570753802437
- Earlier thread on the same pipeline: https://x.com/AIWarper/status/2104609560644461038