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GREECE - PAPER CUTS (PROMPTS)

GREECE - PAPER CUTS (PROMPTS)

Copy a prompt, paste it into your tool, change the city.

1. The four stills

Any GPT Image 2 tool. Attach one reference picture in the paper-cut style (the picture above works), then paste a prompt. Size 16:9.

Santorini, Oia at sunset

Scene 1: Santorini, Oia at sunset

Paper-cut collage illustration in the exact style of the reference image: flat layered cut-paper shapes with soft drop shadows, torn and scissor edges, matte paper texture, muted documentary palette. Wide view of Oia in Santorini at sunset: three blue-domed white churches stepping down the cliff in the centre, the white cube houses stacked around them as flat paper blocks, the caldera cliff as one dark paper plane below, the sea as flat deep blue water planes, the volcano island as one low paper plane on the horizon. A large orange sun disc and cut-paper cloud strips. Light from the right, warm. No other elements. Palette: white, cobalt blue, sunset orange, cliff brown. 16:9.
Athens, the Acropolis at golden hour

Scene 2: Athens, the Acropolis at golden hour

Paper-cut collage illustration in the exact style of the reference image: flat layered cut-paper shapes with soft drop shadows, torn and scissor edges, matte paper texture, muted documentary palette. Wide view of the Acropolis in Athens at golden hour: the Parthenon with its row of marble columns standing on the flat rock summit in the centre, the rock as layered ochre paper planes below it, the city as low white paper blocks spread around the base, Mount Lycabettus as one paper plane on the right horizon. A large pale gold sun disc and cut-paper cloud strips. Light from the left, warm. No other elements. Palette: marble white, ochre, olive green, dusty blue. 16:9.
Meteora at dawn

Scene 3: Meteora at dawn

Paper-cut collage illustration in the exact style of the reference image: flat layered cut-paper shapes with soft drop shadows, torn and scissor edges, matte paper texture, muted documentary palette. Wide view of Meteora at dawn: one great grey rock pillar rising in the centre with a monastery of stone walls and red tiled roofs perched on its flat top, farther rock pillars as two paper planes behind, the green valley floor as flat paper planes below, a single dark cypress on the right. A pale pink sun disc and cut-paper cloud strips. Light from the right, soft. No other elements. Palette: rock grey, tile red, valley green, dawn pink. 16:9.
Mykonos, the windmill in the late afternoon

Scene 4: Mykonos, the windmill in the late afternoon

Paper-cut collage illustration in the exact style of the reference image: flat layered cut-paper shapes with soft drop shadows, torn and scissor edges, matte paper texture, muted documentary palette. Wide view of the Mykonos windmills in the late afternoon: one white round windmill with a thatched cone roof and four white sails standing on a low hill in the centre, the white cube houses of Little Venice as flat paper blocks on the left, the sea as flat blue water planes on the right, the hill as one ochre paper plane. A large gold sun disc and cut-paper cloud strips. Light from the left, warm. No other elements. Palette: white, aegean blue, ochre, gold. 16:9.

2. The animation

Google Omni Flash 1.1 (Higgsfield, Google Flow or the API). Image to video, 16:9, 5 seconds, 720p. Start frame = a plain sky frame in the still's sky colours. End frame = the still. Rewrite the TIMELINE nouns with the layers in your still, back to front.

STYLE
Paper-cut collage motion graphic. Every element in the attached image is a separate flat cut-paper layer with torn edges, a soft drop shadow and matte paper texture. Documentary title-sequence feel. Colours, shapes and composition stay exactly as in the attached image. NOT smooth 3D, NOT glossy, NOT photoreal.

REFERENCE
The attached image is the final frame. The video ends on this exact composition; only the three living-hold motions keep moving.

CAMERA: ONE STATIC SHOT, NO CUTS
Locked-off camera, no zoom, no pan, no parallax. 16:9.

TIMELINE (5 seconds)
00:00-00:00.3  Only the torn teal and peach paper sunset sky, nothing else on screen.
00:00.3-00:00.9  The big orange sun disc rises into its place on the left; the torn cloud strips slide in from the left and right edges one at a time and settle.
00:00.9-00:01.6  The volcano island planes rise on the horizon, then the deep blue sea planes slide in from the left one strip at a time, each settling with a tiny paper wobble.
00:01.6-00:02.3  The dark caldera cliff planes rise from the bottom left; then the white cube houses stack in on them from the top right corner downward, leaving the centre open.
00:02.3-00:03.0  The white church with its big blue dome assembles alone in the centre: the white walls rise, the blue dome drops onto them and locks, the small cross pops up.
00:03.0-00:03.7  The upper white church drops into its place above, white walls first, then its blue dome and cross; last, the white bell tower with its small blue dome rises in the front left and locks.
00:03.7-00:05.0  LIVING HOLD, 1.3 seconds of natural motion. The composition is complete and nothing changes position. Three clearly visible natural motions: the gold water strips shimmer, the sea planes roll slowly, the cloud strips drift very slowly. They keep moving through the final frame; the picture never freezes.

AVOID
Camera movement, cross-fades, morphing, elements changing shape or colour, extra elements not in the image, people walking, vehicles moving, text, watermarks, music, a still or frozen final second.

3. Put it together

  1. Cream background (#eeecdd), two 16:9 panels: the animation on top, the still below. Labels "Google Omni Flash" and "Chat GPT" in Lato Bold.
  2. Four scenes of 5 seconds, hard cuts, about 1.3 seconds of hold at the end.
  3. One music bed under all of it, with each clip's own sound effects kept underneath. We build it in code; any editor with two video tracks does the same.