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).
Make it yours. 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.
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.
“It made the creative decisions based on that prompt.”
You'll need
- 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
How it was made
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.
Posted Sep 30, 2026 · X · 462 likes · 26k views · 38 comments
Prompt from: Reply on X, in quotes, with three reference images
Look notesby Reference
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.
