PERU - 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.
Scene 1: Machu Picchu in the morning
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 Machu Picchu in the morning: the stone terraces and ruins stepping up the ridge in the centre as flat grey and green paper planes, Huayna Picchu peak rising sharp behind them, farther Andes ridges in two paper planes, the river valley as a dark plane far below. A pale gold sun disc and cut-paper cloud strips. Light from the right, soft. No other elements. Palette: moss green, stone grey, cream, sky blue. 16:9.
Scene 2: Lake Titicaca at sunrise
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 Lake Titicaca at sunrise: one golden reed boat with a curved prow front centre carrying a seated rower in a knitted hat, the lake as flat deep blue water planes, one reed island with a small reed hut behind, far mountains in two paper planes. A large orange sun disc and cut-paper cloud strips. Light from the left, warm. No other elements. Palette: deep blue, reed gold, cream, orange. 16:9.
Scene 3: Rainbow Mountain
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 Rainbow Mountain in Peru: the striped mountain rising in the centre as flat paper bands of rust, mustard, teal and cream, farther bare peaks in two paper planes behind, a stony path plane winding up from the front edge. Front left one walker in a poncho stands still, back to camera. A pale sun disc and cut-paper cloud strips. Light from the right, cool. No other elements. Palette: rust, mustard, teal, cream. 16:9.
Scene 4: Cusco, the cathedral over the plaza
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 Cusco in the afternoon: the twin-towered cathedral standing in the centre over the Plaza de Armas, the plaza as a flat stone plane with one fountain in front, the city roofs as terracotta paper blocks climbing the hills, the Andes ridges in two paper planes behind. A large mustard sun disc and cut-paper cloud strips. Light from the left, warm. No other elements. Palette: terracotta, stone grey, cream, mountain green. 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 image, pixel-true, and holds. 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 blue paper morning sky, nothing else on screen. 00:00.3-00:00.9 The pale gold sun disc rises into its place on the right; the torn white cloud strips slide in from the left and right edges one at a time and settle. 00:00.9-00:01.6 The far Andes ridges rise from the bottom edge in two paper planes, farthest first, and the dark river valley plane slides in below. 00:01.6-00:02.6 The stone terraces and ruins of Machu Picchu build alone from the bottom up, terrace by terrace, and lock on the ridge. 00:02.6-00:03.3 Huayna Picchu peak rises behind the ruins and locks, then the near green slopes slide in. 00:03.3-00:03.8 Last, the foreground cliff edge with its trees slides up from the bottom and locks. 00:03.8-00:04.9 LIVING HOLD. The composition is complete and nothing changes position. Only three gentle motions: the gold sun glow breathes softly, the near trees sway a little, the cloud strips drift very slowly. Paper-cut motion, small and calm. 00:04.9-00:05.0 Settle: identical to the attached image. AVOID Camera movement, cross-fades, morphing, elements changing shape or colour, extra elements not in the image, people walking, vehicles moving, text, watermarks, music, any frame after 00:04.9 that differs from the attached image.
3. Put it together
- Cream background (#eeecdd), two 16:9 panels: the animation on top, the still below. Labels "Google Omni Flash" and "Chat GPT" in Lato Bold.
- Four scenes of 5 seconds, hard cuts, about 1.3 seconds of hold at the end.
- 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.