Leaf Boat

Posted 1 Oct 2026

Leaf Boat

Make it yours

Recreate workflow

Walks the chain step by step — nothing spends until you run one

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CHARACTER LOCK — HIGHEST PRIORITY: The person in every shot is exactly the person in @image1. Preserve their facial identity, facial structure, eye shape and spacing, eyebrows, nose, mouth, exact skin tone, hairline, hairstyle, hair length, texture and colour, freckles and distinctive marks, apparent age, build and body proportions — identically, shot to shot. Preserve their gender presentation exactly as shown; do not masculinize, feminize or otherwise reinterpret it. Do not beautify, slim, de-age or restyle them. Refer to them only as they/them in this prompt. ATTACHED IMAGE IS MANDATORY AND FINAL: The attached image outranks every word written below it: wherever the attached image and this text disagree, follow the image. ASSET MAP: @image1 — the tiny living person. Photocopy face, hair, skin, and the clothes on the still (sleeveless bare shoulders, long curly brown hair, layered gold necklaces with a round coin pendant). Ignore the grey studio pad around @image1 — that pad is not a set. Never freeze on the attached still as frame 0. Never show a checkerboard or transparency grid. SUBJECT LOCK — HIGHEST PRIORITY: The tiny subject in every shot is exactly what is in @image1, only shrunk in scale. Do not beautify, restyle, slim or redesign it. No other version of it appears anywhere in frame. HANDS: if the subject has hands, they are always anatomically correct with five fingers each, naturally proportioned, in every shot they appear. The story does not require them to grip, hold or manipulate anything — only to ride, sway and settle with the boat’s motion. SINGLE SUBJECT: only the @image1 subject rides the leaf-boat as the story’s subject — a real frog and real fireflies may appear as natural wildlife in the scene, not as characters, and no other people, figures or hands enter frame. They are a tiny real person, not a doll. PHOTOREAL LIVE-ACTION: real camera, real miniature stream, real water, real light — not CGI, not a painting, not an animated illustration. Match grain, colour and lighting between the subject and the water so the whole shot reads as one photograph. SCALE REALISM: the subject, riding on a single large fallen leaf, is a few centimetres tall relative to a real miniature garden stream — the blades of grass on either bank tower like canyon walls, a lily pad ahead is the size of a small island. Match lighting and colour grade between the subject and the water throughout so the whole shot reads as one real photograph, not a composite. The scale contrast is clearly visible in the very first frame. Unbranded: no logos, no brand names, no readable text on leaves, petals or water. PROP CONTINUITY: the leaf-boat the subject rides, the grass-blade banks, and the overhanging curtain of petals partway downstream are all visible from frame 1 or clearly established before first use — nothing new appears later unexplained. CAUSALITY LOCK: every event has a shown, physical cause — a real frog leaps from the bank into the water first, visibly, before the ripple-wave it creates reaches the boat; the boat tips because that same wave physically strikes it, not randomly; it rights itself because the wave passes and the water settles, a visible physical process, never an unexplained recovery. PACING: real, continuous motion for the full duration — no calm establishing pause longer than 1 second except the brief settled beat at the very end. Each beat below must read as a distinct, clearly readable event, not a blur. Do NOT default to a calm, mostly-still shot. Shot 1 must open already in motion. Never freeze on the reference still. SCENE: a miniature garden stream at dusk, warm fading light on the water, grass blades rising like canyon walls on either bank. The tiny living person, built exactly from @image1, is already riding the leaf-boat downstream when the shot opens. Whimsical live-action macro realism, shallow depth of field. Tiny real person — not a doll, not a statue. 0–2s: Already racing downstream, the leaf-boat weaves between the grass-blade banks, a fine spray kicking up at its bow, the subject riding steady at its centre. 2–4s: Ahead on the bank, a real frog leaps into the water — the splash sends a ripple-wave racing toward the boat. 4–6s: The wave strikes — the leaf-boat rears up and tips hard to one side, the subject sliding toward the rim, before the wave passes and the leaf levels out flat on the water again. 6–8s: The current carries the boat under a low curtain of overhanging petals — they brush just overhead as the boat ducks beneath, emerging into open water on the far side. 8–10s: The stream widens into a still, glowing pool, real fireflies hovering low over the surface, their light scattered across the water. 10–12s: The leaf-boat drifts to rest against a large lily pad at the pool’s edge, the subject settled and steady at its centre, fireflies circling softly above — the full miniature river world visible in this final frame. STYLE: photoreal live-action macro, real garden stream at dusk, warm fading light, shallow depth of field. Vertical 9:16. Tiny real person on a giant leaf-boat — not a doll, not a statue. AUDIO (native, synced, no BGM, no voiceover, no narration): rushing water, a frog’s splash and the ripple that follows, water lapping against the leaf, a soft rustle as petals brush overhead, gentle water settling at the pool, faint insect hum at the end. No on-screen text, no watermark, no subtitles.

How it was made

Seedance 2.5 9:16 1080p with sound. @image1 is the tiny person riding a leaf-boat on a giant garden stream.

Duration12s

Resolution1080p

Aspect9:16

SoundOn

ATTACHED IMAGE IS MANDATORY AND FINAL: The attached image outranks every word written below it: wherever the attached image and this text disagree, follow the image.

ASSET MAP:
@image1 — the tiny living person. Photocopy face, hair, skin, and the clothes on the still (sleeveless bare shoulders, long curly brown hair, layered gold necklaces with a round coin pendant). Ignore the grey studio pad around @image1 — that pad is not a set. Never freeze on the attached still as frame 0. Never show a checkerboard or transparency grid.

SUBJECT LOCK — HIGHEST PRIORITY: The tiny subject in every shot is exactly what is in @image1, only shrunk in scale. Do not beautify, restyle, slim or redesign it. No other version of it appears anywhere in frame.

HANDS: if the subject has hands, they are always anatomically correct with five fingers each, naturally proportioned, in every shot they appear. The story does not require them to grip, hold or manipulate anything — only to ride, sway and settle with the boat’s motion.

SINGLE SUBJECT: only the @image1 subject rides the leaf-boat as the story’s subject — a real frog and real fireflies may appear as natural wildlife in the scene, not as characters, and no other people, figures or hands enter frame. They are a tiny real person, not a doll.

PHOTOREAL LIVE-ACTION: real camera, real miniature stream, real water, real light — not CGI, not a painting, not an animated illustration. Match grain, colour and lighting between the subject and the water so the whole shot reads as one photograph.

SCALE REALISM: the subject, riding on a single large fallen leaf, is a few centimetres tall relative to a real miniature garden stream — the blades of grass on either bank tower like canyon walls, a lily pad ahead is the size of a small island. Match lighting and colour grade between the subject and the water throughout so the whole shot reads as one real photograph, not a composite. The scale contrast is clearly visible in the very first frame.

Unbranded: no logos, no brand names, no readable text on leaves, petals or water.

PROP CONTINUITY: the leaf-boat the subject rides, the grass-blade banks, and the overhanging curtain of petals partway downstream are all visible from frame 1 or clearly established before first use — nothing new appears later unexplained.

CAUSALITY LOCK: every event has a shown, physical cause — a real frog leaps from the bank into the water first, visibly, before the ripple-wave it creates reaches the boat; the boat tips because that same wave physically strikes it, not randomly; it rights itself because the wave passes and the water settles, a visible physical process, never an unexplained recovery.

PACING: real, continuous motion for the full duration — no calm establishing pause longer than 1 second except the brief settled beat at the very end. Each beat below must read as a distinct, clearly readable event, not a blur.

Do NOT default to a calm, mostly-still shot. Shot 1 must open already in motion. Never freeze on the reference still.

SCENE: a miniature garden stream at dusk, warm fading light on the water, grass blades rising like canyon walls on either bank. The tiny living person, built exactly from @image1, is already riding the leaf-boat downstream when the shot opens. Whimsical live-action macro realism, shallow depth of field. Tiny real person — not a doll, not a statue.

0–2s: Already racing downstream, the leaf-boat weaves between the grass-blade banks, a fine spray kicking up at its bow, the subject riding steady at its centre.

2–4s: Ahead on the bank, a real frog leaps into the water — the splash sends a ripple-wave racing toward the boat.

4–6s: The wave strikes — the leaf-boat rears up and tips hard to one side, the subject sliding toward the rim, before the wave passes and the leaf levels out flat on the water again.

6–8s: The current carries the boat under a low curtain of overhanging petals — they brush just overhead as the boat ducks beneath, emerging into open water on the far side.

8–10s: The stream widens into a still, glowing pool, real fireflies hovering low over the surface, their light scattered across the water.

10–12s: The leaf-boat drifts to rest against a large lily pad at the pool’s edge, the subject settled and steady at its centre, fireflies circling softly above — the full miniature river world visible in this final frame.

STYLE: photoreal live-action macro, real garden stream at dusk, warm fading light, shallow depth of field. Vertical 9:16. Tiny real person on a giant leaf-boat — not a doll, not a statue.

AUDIO (native, synced, no BGM, no voiceover, no narration): rushing water, a frog’s splash and the ripple that follows, water lapping against the leaf, a soft rustle as petals brush overhead, gentle water settling at the pool, faint insect hum at the end.

No on-screen text, no watermark, no subtitles.

ModelSeedance 2.5

Aspect9:16

Duration12s

Resolution1080p

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Leaf BoatSeedance 2.5 · 9:16 · 12sRecreate workflow