# Cybernetic portrait in a neon alley

> A bearded cyberpunk character appears in a rain-soaked neon alley, wearing a patched leather jacket over luminous magenta circuitry. Profile and frontal portraits culminate in a close view of his facial implants.

- Kind: Video
- Page: https://meetreference.com/v/video-cybernetic-portrait-in-a-neon-alley-fa8eb8/
- Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/video-cybernetic-portrait-in-a-neon-alley-fa8eb8/agent.txt
- Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/video-cybernetic-portrait-in-a-neon-alley-fa8eb8/prompt.txt
- Authorship: AI-made, per the source
- Made with: Not stated
- Model: GPT Image 2, Seedance 2.5
- Built with: not stated
- Services: Dzine
- Style: Short films; cyberpunk, cinematic, neon, photorealistic, character-focused
- Length and format: 30 sec, 9:16 (720x1280 source)
- Playback: a muted visual reference. The original soundtrack is available only at the source.
- Shared by @alex_bagnuoli89 in X, Aug 10, 2026: https://x.com/alex_bagnuoli89/status/2086754348395033082
- 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.

Requirements reported by the source: The published prompt refers to supplied reference images, footage or files. Provide your own equivalents..

## Recreating this video

These are the creator's published instructions, unedited.

## Prompt

```text
[Reference]
@ IMG_1  defines the subject's face, cybernetic forehead implant, hairstyle, beard, leather jacket with patches, and the rainy neon alley environment. Maintain this exact appearance and setting throughout.

[Generation Goal]
Generate a cinematic character reveal. The central subject is the cyberpunk man from the reference image, and the primary event is him turning from a shadowed profile into a direct, confident gaze at the camera within a rain soaked neon alley at night.

[Stage 1]
Initial state: the subject stands with his head turned away from camera at roughly a three quarter angle, rain falling steadily around him, steam rising from a metal grate at his feet, magenta and cyan neon signage reflecting across the wet pavement and his jacket.
Primary event: rain drips slowly off the edge of his collar while the circuitry embedded in his forehead pulses faint white light in sync with scrolling text along the implant.
End state: the subject still faces away at the three quarter angle, implant glow steady, rain continuing without change in intensity.

[Stage 2]
Continue from the previous stage: same posture, same lighting, same steady implant glow, rain and steam unchanged.
Primary event: the subject slowly rotates his head toward the camera, his eyes lifting last, and a faint, confident smirk begins forming at the corner of his mouth as his right hand settles on the lapel of his jacket.
End state: the subject now faces the camera directly, smirk fully formed, chin slightly raised, right hand resting on the lapel.

[Stage 3]
Primary event: the camera performs a slow, subtle push in toward his face while thin streaks of pink and teal light from the alley signs ripple briefly across the surface of his cybernetic implant, and a wisp of steam drifts through the foreground between him and the lens.
End state: the subject fills more of the frame in a close medium shot, smirk holding steady, implant glow calm, rain and neon reflections still visible in the background.

[Maintain Consistency]
Keep the subject's facial identity, beard, hairstyle, cybernetic implant design, glowing circuitry visible beneath his open jacket, patched leather jacket, and the alley's magenta and cyan neon palette consistent throughout. Keep rain intensity, wet reflections, and steam density stable without abrupt shifts. The camera should not cut, it should only push in smoothly across all three stages.

Audio: (Steady rain falling on wet pavement, a faint electronic hum from the neon signage, distant muffled city traffic below)
```

## What it looks like

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

A bearded man with subtle cybernetic facial lines wears a black leather jacket over a glowing magenta circuit-patterned shirt, standing in a neon-lit city alley.

- Color: Deep black and charcoal with vivid cyan and magenta neon accents.
- Type: Polished, semi-photorealistic digital illustration with cinematic lighting.
- Framing: The man is the dominant foreground subject, shown from the waist up and facing forward; neon signs and the alley recede behind him.
- Structure: A detailed character portrait layered against a narrow urban streetscape with vertical illuminated signs, dark building facades, and low drifting mist.

Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cybernetic-portrait-in-a-neon-alley-fa8eb8/storyboard.webp

- Frame 1 at 1.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cybernetic-portrait-in-a-neon-alley-fa8eb8/f1.webp
- Frame 2 at 5.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cybernetic-portrait-in-a-neon-alley-fa8eb8/f2.webp
- Frame 3 at 8.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cybernetic-portrait-in-a-neon-alley-fa8eb8/f3.webp
- Frame 4 at 11.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cybernetic-portrait-in-a-neon-alley-fa8eb8/f4.webp
- Frame 5 at 15.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cybernetic-portrait-in-a-neon-alley-fa8eb8/f5.webp
- Frame 6 at 18.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cybernetic-portrait-in-a-neon-alley-fa8eb8/f6.webp
- Frame 7 at 21.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cybernetic-portrait-in-a-neon-alley-fa8eb8/f7.webp
- Frame 8 at 25.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cybernetic-portrait-in-a-neon-alley-fa8eb8/f8.webp
- Frame 9 at 28.4s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-cybernetic-portrait-in-a-neon-alley-fa8eb8/f9.webp

## Links

- Watch: https://x.com/alex_bagnuoli89/status/2086754348395033082
- Original post: https://x.com/alex_bagnuoli89/status/2086754348395033082
- Discovery collection: https://beatapi.io/seedance-2-5-prompts