# One world. One small event.

Build the design references first. Approve the opening composition before asking the video model to animate it.

## Fill in your world
WORLD: [place, era, one distinctive physical rule]
PROTAGONIST: [identity, silhouette, wardrobe]
SECONDARY SUBJECT: [object, creature, person or phenomenon]
TREATMENT: [medium, texture, edge treatment]
LIGHT: [source, direction, softness, time of day]
PALETTE: [two base colors and one accent]
EVENT: [one visible change]
REACTION: [one small observable response]
COMPOSITION: [positions, relative scale, depth planes]
CAMERA: [one physical path, start and finish]
DURATION: [supported duration in your chosen service]

Example: An orbital greenhouse caretaker watches one dormant seed pod open. They stop polishing an inspection lamp and look up. Cream ceramic, charcoal metal, amber glass. The camera slides sideways to reveal the pod between two foreground stems.

## 1. Make the visual anchor
Create a design reference for [PROTAGONIST] in [TREATMENT], using [LIGHT] and [PALETTE]. Show equally sized front, profile and rear views against a neutral background. Preserve the figure, clothing construction and carried objects across the views. If an identity reference is attached, use it for identity; derive the new wardrobe, pose, light and treatment from this brief.

Choose one approved anchor before continuing.

## 2. Separate the reference roles
ENVIRONMENT: Depict [WORLD] around [COMPOSITION]. Establish architecture, scale, surfaces and light. Leave space for the subjects at their planned positions. Do not borrow the character's face, clothing or carried props into the environment.

SECONDARY SUBJECT: Depict [SECONDARY SUBJECT] in its resting state before [EVENT]. Make the surfaces or joints that will move easy to inspect. Match the established treatment, light and palette.

OPENING COMPOSITION: Combine the approved references. Position both subjects according to [COMPOSITION]. The event has not happened yet. Check that the planned camera path has a physically clear route.

Use the service's actual attachment labels. If reference capacity is limited, use the approved opening composition as the main image and simplify the remaining references.

## 3. Animate the approved scene
Create a [DURATION] continuous shot from the approved opening composition. Preserve identities, object designs and spatial layout. Maintain [TREATMENT], [LIGHT] and [PALETTE].

The camera follows [CAMERA] with a gentle start and an unhurried finish.

0–25%: Establish the resting scene with only ambient motion.
25–60%: [EVENT] happens once. Only the necessary parts articulate.
60–80%: [REACTION] follows after the event becomes visible.
80–100%: Hold a readable final composition showing what changed.

Convert these percentages into timestamps after choosing a supported duration. If audio is supported, add plausible ambience and one material sound for the event. Otherwise keep sound as editing notes.

## Check the result
Does the opening match? Does the event happen once? Do scale, materials, identity and object count hold? Does the reaction follow the event? Can the camera move through the geometry? Save the model version, settings, references and result before calling the workflow tested.

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## Source & credit

Author: The Glitch
Status: Untested template
Source: Day 16 / The knight
Creator: Tudor Morari · tudormorari.ai

Original adaptation of the reference-plate workflow in the supplied Knight pack. Model names come from the source; this version has not been generation-tested.