Ice Shove

How it was made

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1. 1The stills
2. 2Motion + sound
3. 3The finished cut

1. 

   Step 1

   The stills

   FLUX 3 Image

   PromptCopy prompt

   Photoreal cinematic 35mm film frame, vertical composition, very low worm's-eye angle right at the base of a towering wall of shattered lake ice that fills the lower two thirds of the frame and looms over the camera: thick turquoise-blue ice slabs stacked on edge three meters high, tilting forward, sharp broken edges glowing in a low golden winter sun, loose chunks tumbling down its face, powder snow streaming off the crest. Just past the ice, close behind it on the right, a small red wooden lake cabin with a white-trimmed porch, the ice wall almost at its corner. Deep blue sky with fast white clouds. Only one building in the whole frame. No people, no animals, no text, no signs, no logos.

   • resolution: 2k
   • shape: 9:16
   • grounding: off

   13.5 credits · This is the exact prompt of the opening shot; all eight stills follow the same pattern. 1.5 credits per 2K still. The opener took 2 takes: the first had too much sky.

2. 

   Step 2

   Motion + sound

   Seedance 2.5

   PromptCopy prompt

   Low angle, the towering wall of lake ice is alive from the very first frame: slabs heave upward and tilt forward toward the camera, a big slab cracks and topples down the face, chunks tumble and bounce into the snow, powder snow streams off the crest in the wind, clouds race across the sky. The red cabin behind stays perfectly still and unchanged. Slight handheld shake. Only one building. Sound effects only, no music, no speech: deep groaning ice, loud cracks, crunching chunks, wind.

   • resolution: 1080p
   • shape: 9:16
   • length: 5 s
   • sound: on

   640 credits · Exact prompt of the opening shot. Eight 5-second shots at 16 credits a second, 1 take each. Only the best 2 to 3 seconds of each made the cut.

3. 

   Step 3

   The finished cut

   Eight shots cut hard to the score, two big supers, then the Pixel Dojo end card.