# Cloud-sheep shelter their shepherd

> A young shepherd tends fluffy cloud-sheep in a pastel sky world. A tiny bicycle, heart-shaped cloud and grumpy storm lead to a woolly shelter and a rainbow bridge between floating islands.

- Kind: Video
- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/video-cloud-sheep-shelter-their-shepherd-8ecbe3/
- Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/video-cloud-sheep-shelter-their-shepherd-8ecbe3/agent.txt
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/video-cloud-sheep-shelter-their-shepherd-8ecbe3/prompt.txt
- Authorship: AI-made, per the source
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: Seedance 2.5
- Built with: not stated
- Services: Dreamina
- Style: Short films; 3d animation, whimsical, pastel, fantasy, character-driven, soft textures
- Length and format: 30 sec, 16:9 (1280x720 source)
- Playback: a muted visual reference. The original soundtrack is available only at the source.
- Shared by @Dheepanratnam in X, Aug 3, 2026: https://x.com/Dheepanratnam/status/2084145160875651566
- Prompt fidelity: Verbatim. This is the complete prompt exactly as the creator published it.

## Before you start

Guidance from Reference, separate from the creator's instructions.

1. Read the reference and inspect the project, installed libraries, and available agent skills before writing code. Reuse suitable tools already present.
2. Prefer the creator-reported libraries and skills when they fit the task. Explain what useful additions help with, and install missing project dependencies or relevant skills from official sources when the environment and the user's existing permissions allow it. Respect the project's package manager and setup rules; do not ask again for routine setup already authorized.
3. Distinguish tools used by the creator from your own recommendations. A listed tool is not automatically required, and an empty tools or requirements list means the setup is unknown, not that nothing is needed.
4. Ask concise questions when missing inputs or choices materially affect the result: paid services, credentials, the user's assets, or a different production approach. Use existing answers and permissions; continue independent work while waiting.
5. If a useful library, skill, or service cannot be installed or used, explain an available alternative and its expected effect on quality, features, or effort. Get the user's choice before a material compromise; otherwise state the fallback and continue. Never silently simplify the result or claim to have used a tool you did not use.

## Recreating this video

These are the creator's published instructions, unedited.

## Prompt

```text
{

"title": "Cloud Shepherd",

"style": "3D Pixar family animation. Floating islands, pastel sky, fluffy cloud-sheep with little legs, golden morning light, whimsical.",

"shots": [

{"time":"00:00-00:03","type":"EXTREME WIDE","action":"Crane shot down through cotton-candy clouds. Shepherd whistles, herding cloud-sheep with feather-duster staff.","camera":"Crane descending. Sun flares.","dialogue":"(whistling)"},

{"time":"00:03-00:06","type":"WIDE","action":"One cloud-sheep drifts away, forms T-rex, then bicycle. Other clouds confused. Shepherd's shoulders drop.","camera":"Static.","dialogue":"Shepherd: 'Bramble, stop becoming a dinosaur! You are a sheep!'"},

{"time":"00:06-00:09","type":"CLOSE-UP","action":"Cloud-sheep shifts into heart shape, floats down, nuzzles shepherd's cheek. She gets slightly damp.","camera":"Macro. Water droplets on freckles.","dialogue":"Shepherd: (giggles, softening) 'Okay, one dinosaur.'"},

{"time":"00:09-00:13","type":"TRACKING","action":"Shepherd chases flock to wooden pen. Cloud-sheep becomes slide, duck, then sheep again, hops inside.","camera":"Side-tracking, fast. Vapor trails.","dialogue":"Shepherd: 'Then we go inside.'"},

{"time":"00:13-00:17","type":"WIDE","action":"Dark grumpy-faced storm cloud approaches. Shepherd looks up worried. Opens tiny umbrella.","camera":"Low angle. Thunder rumbles.","dialogue":"(none)"},

{"time":"00:17-00:23","type":"MEDIUM","action":"Cloud-sheep huddle under tiny umbrella, spilling out. Bramble becomes umbrella shape to help cover.","camera":"High angle. Rain falls golden around them, not on them.","dialogue":"(rain patter, contented baaing)"},

{"time":"00:23-00:27","type":"CLOSE-UP","action":"Shepherd hugs Bramble. Feels like warm cotton. Rainbows in vapor. Eyes closed peaceful.","camera":"Extreme close-up.","dialogue":"(soft humming)"},

{"time":"00:27-00:30","type":"WIDE","action":"Storm passes. Sun returns. Shepherd and flock walk across rainbow bridge to next island, perfectly in line.","camera":"Pull back. Pastel sky.","dialogue":"(whistling resumes)"}

]

}
```

## What it looks like

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

A child in a wide-brimmed hat tends sheep-like clouds in a dreamy sky world. The clouds gather around the child, form a cloudlike covering, and appear beside a rainbow.

- Color: Soft lavender, peach, and golden sunset tones contrast with deep blue-gray storm clouds; the rainbow adds bright saturated color.
- Type: Stylized 3D animated family-fantasy artwork with soft, fluffy forms and expressive characters.
- Framing: Wide views establish the sky landscape and a small group of clouds; closer character portraits and medium views emphasize the child and cloud creatures. A final wide view places them across a rainbow between floating landforms.
- Structure: The frames move from a distant view of the herding scene to closer views of the child and clouds, then resolve in a broad rainbow landscape.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cloud-sheep-shelter-their-shepherd-8ecbe3/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 1.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cloud-sheep-shelter-their-shepherd-8ecbe3/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 5.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cloud-sheep-shelter-their-shepherd-8ecbe3/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 8.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cloud-sheep-shelter-their-shepherd-8ecbe3/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 11.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cloud-sheep-shelter-their-shepherd-8ecbe3/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 15.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cloud-sheep-shelter-their-shepherd-8ecbe3/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 18.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cloud-sheep-shelter-their-shepherd-8ecbe3/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 21.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cloud-sheep-shelter-their-shepherd-8ecbe3/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 25.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cloud-sheep-shelter-their-shepherd-8ecbe3/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 28.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cloud-sheep-shelter-their-shepherd-8ecbe3/f9.webp

## Links

- Watch: https://x.com/Dheepanratnam/status/2084145160875651566
- Original post: https://x.com/Dheepanratnam/status/2084145160875651566
- Discovery collection: https://beatapi.io/seedance-2-5-prompts