Sinkhole

How it was made

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1. 1Frame one
2. 2Same truck, six more stills
3. 3Motion + sound
4. 4The finished cut

1. 

   Step 1

   Frame one

   Qwen Image 2.1

   PromptCopy prompt

   Cinematic blockbuster film still, photoreal, shot on 35mm, vertical frame. An invented red-rock desert highway is collapsing into a colossal sinkhole: the asphalt road breaks into huge slabs that tilt and plunge into a dark bottomless pit on the left side of the frame, thick tan dust billowing upward, small rocks falling. On the right, one boxy bright orange off-road rally truck with a black roll cage, oversized knobby tires and roof lights races along the crumbling edge straight toward the camera, kicking up dust. Low angle, hard late-afternoon sun, towering red sandstone mesas behind, deep blue sky. Exactly one vehicle. Original vehicle design, no logos, no badges, no license plate, no text anywhere.

   • resolution: 2k
   • aspect ratio: 9:16
   • model: base

   1.5 credits · 1 take, 1.5 credits

2. 

   Step 2

   Same truck, six more stills

   Qwen Image 2.1

   PromptCopy prompt

   Use the orange off-road rally truck from image 1 (same shape, color, roll cage, roof lights, knobby tires). New shot, cinematic blockbuster film still, photoreal, vertical frame, side view from low in the gap: the truck is airborne, flying across a wide gap where the highway has collapsed into a dark bottomless pit, all four wheels in the air, broken road slabs and rocks falling into the pit beneath it, the far side of the road ahead, dust trailing from its tires, deep blue sky and red mesas. Exactly one vehicle. No logos, no text, no license plate.

   • resolution: 2k
   • aspect ratio: 9:16
   • model: base
   • references: Frame one as image 1

   9 credits · Exact prompt of shot s5 (the jump); s2-s7 share the opening reference line. 6 stills x 1.5 credits, 1 take each

3. 

   Step 3

   Motion + sound

   Seedance 2.5

   PromptCopy prompt

   The orange truck in the image (same exact shape and color) flies through the air over the dark pit where the road has collapsed, wheels spinning, broken slabs and rocks falling away beneath it into the darkness, dust streaming off the tires, then it arcs across toward the far side. Camera tracks the jump in slow motion. Exactly one vehicle; it keeps its exact shape. Sound effects only, no music, no speech: wind rush, engine howl, rocks falling.

   • resolution: 1080p
   • aspect ratio: 9:16
   • duration: 5
   • thinking: on
   • generate audio: on

   720 credits · Exact prompt of shot c5 (the jump). 9 takes x 80 credits (16 credits/s at 1080p); a second jump take nose-dived into the pit and was dropped

4. 

   Step 4

   The finished cut