# Glowing star inside a paint canvas > A man in a red shirt appears inside a retro paint program against a grassy hill and blue sky. He traces an ivory star around himself; the landscape fills the frame, then remains with the star after he leaves. - Kind: Video - Page: https://meetreference.com/v/video-glowing-star-inside-a-paint-canvas-c2fc6b/ - Ready-to-use agent handoff: https://meetreference.com/v/video-glowing-star-inside-a-paint-canvas-c2fc6b/agent.txt - Exact prompt as plain text: https://meetreference.com/v/video-glowing-star-inside-a-paint-canvas-c2fc6b/prompt.txt - Authorship: AI-made, per the source - Made with: Not stated - Model: Seedance 2.5 - Built with: not stated - Style: Short films; retro-computing, live-action illusion, nostalgic, luminous linework, surreal - Length and format: 20 sec, 16:9 (854x480 source) - Playback: a muted visual reference. The original soundtrack is available only at the source. - Shared by @bmx_ai13 in X, Aug 2, 2026: https://x.com/bmx_ai13/status/2083769258236866658 - 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 Create a ten second cinematic live action illusion in a sixteen by nine frame at thirty frames per second. Begin inside a faithfully recreated late nineteen nineties desktop paint program. Use a cool gray window frame, navy title bar, simple menus, chunky pixel tool icons on the left, scroll bars, and small color swatches along the bottom. The canvas shows a saturated blue sky with soft white clouds and a vivid green grassy hill, nostalgic but photographed with realistic depth, subtle cloud movement, and light atmospheric haze. 0 to 1.2 seconds. Hold a locked frontal camera on the full paint window. The empty landscape fills the canvas. A slim young adult man rises smoothly from the bottom center with his back to camera. He wears a red athletic shirt with white collar and sleeve stripes, a backward royal blue cap, a thin silver chain, and black ink forearm tattoos. Give his movement real body weight, natural shoulder motion, and slight cloth drag. 1.2 to 2.5 seconds. He lifts his tattooed right arm toward the upper left of the canvas as though touching an invisible drawing tool. Keep the interface perfectly stable and sharp. He turns clockwise toward camera, lowers his hand, and settles into a relaxed waist up pose at center. Use soft frontal daylight, a gentle key from camera left, believable skin texture, clear eyes, fine facial hair, and a faint contact shadow. 2.5 to 6.2 seconds. He looks into camera with a playful calm expression, raises one index finger, and draws in midair. A warm ivory line appears exactly at the fingertip and follows every gesture without delay. It looks like a real textured paint stroke with slight thickness variation, dry brush edges, and a soft glow. He draws one continuous five point star around his body. Make the tall upper point above his cap, the right point beside his shoulder, the lower left point across his torso, the lower right point, then close the shape near his raised hand. Preserve correct hand anatomy, stable identity, perfect line continuity, and natural reactions from his free hand. 6.2 to 7.4 seconds. When the star closes, perform a smooth optical push into the canvas until the interface edges slide beyond the frame. The move should feel like a real camera passing through a monitor, with subtle lens breathing and no cut. He smiles softly and lifts both palms in a small satisfied reveal while the completed ivory star floats around him. 7.4 to 10 seconds. He glances right and walks naturally out of frame. Keep the camera locked on the empty hill and sky. The star remains suspended, slowly loses brightness, and becomes slightly transparent without vanishing. End with one cloud drifting through its center. Maintain one continuous shot, realistic motion blur, natural blinking, stable clothing and tattoos, accurate perspective, clean edges, no warped limbs, no duplicate fingers, no facial changes, no flicker, no random objects, no extra people, and no artificial plastic skin. Make it feel like a practical live action performance composited into an authentic retro computer interface. Audio. Add an original playful retro electronic instrumental at about one hundred and five beats per minute with a warm drum machine groove, soft bass, bright synth plucks, and subtle digital ambience. Sync a light mouse click to the first hand gesture, delicate paint stroke swishes to the fingertip, a sparkling chime when the star closes, and a soft whoosh during the push into the canvas. No vocals and no dialogue. ``` ## What it looks like Written by Reference from the video frames, not by the creator. A man in a red shirt and blue cap stands in a bright, open green landscape beneath a blue, cloud-dotted sky. A glowing outlined star appears over the figure in several frames. - Color: Vivid greens and blues, with the red shirt as a strong accent and the star rendered in warm white-gold light. - Type: Live-action-style imagery with a simple luminous graphic overlay. - Framing: The figure is centered or slightly off-center in front of a low horizon; the star graphic is large and positioned across his upper body and face. - Structure: The scene focuses on the figure and landscape, with the star overlay present in some images and the landscape shown without it in others. Storyboard, nine frames spread across the video: https://meetreference.com/media/video-glowing-star-inside-a-paint-canvas-c2fc6b/storyboard.webp - Frame 1 at 1.1s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-glowing-star-inside-a-paint-canvas-c2fc6b/f1.webp - Frame 2 at 3.3s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-glowing-star-inside-a-paint-canvas-c2fc6b/f2.webp - Frame 3 at 5.6s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-glowing-star-inside-a-paint-canvas-c2fc6b/f3.webp - Frame 4 at 7.8s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-glowing-star-inside-a-paint-canvas-c2fc6b/f4.webp - Frame 5 at 10.0s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-glowing-star-inside-a-paint-canvas-c2fc6b/f5.webp - Frame 6 at 12.2s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-glowing-star-inside-a-paint-canvas-c2fc6b/f6.webp - Frame 7 at 14.5s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-glowing-star-inside-a-paint-canvas-c2fc6b/f7.webp - Frame 8 at 16.7s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-glowing-star-inside-a-paint-canvas-c2fc6b/f8.webp - Frame 9 at 18.9s: https://meetreference.com/media/video-glowing-star-inside-a-paint-canvas-c2fc6b/f9.webp ## Links - Watch: https://x.com/bmx_ai13/status/2083769258236866658 - Original post: https://x.com/bmx_ai13/status/2083769258236866658 - Discovery collection: https://beatapi.io/seedance-2-5-prompts