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Ink Wash Animation from a Picture
Turn a painting or a photo into moving ink
Make the same video as the "Ink Wash Animation from a Picture" template on ultramotion.ai: https://ultramotion.ai/templates/ink-your-picture/ If you can install skills, run npx skills add sunsiyuan/ultramotion first and use examples/jiangnan-rain.html in skills/ink-wash as the starting point: copy it and keep the look, the pacing, the camera, the type and the music exactly as they are; only replace what is in 【】 below with mine. If the words are longer or shorter, change the size and the line breaks, not the structure. If you can't install skills, make the same video as the one on that page from scratch. My content: - Your painting or photo: 【my-picture.jpg】 - What should move in it: 【fine rain, mist, a boatman】 Deliver: Vertical 1080×1920, 30 fps, an mp4 with music, in the current directory.
Made at 9:16. For another size (9:16, 16:9, 4:5, 1:1), say so in the prompt.

The full prompt behind the first sampleEverything the first sample was made from, written out. Use it to make it from scratch, or to see how it is put together.
Make a video in the Ink Wash style from ultramotion.ai: https://ultramotion.ai/styles/ink-wash/ The style is an open-source Agent Skill. If you can install skills, run npx skills add sunsiyuan/ultramotion first and build it with the ink-wash template (ink.js paints ink that spreads on rice paper, render.py renders, sound.py makes the sound). If you can't, write it from scratch following the description below. [Deliverable] - Subject: misty spring rain in Jiangnan, Chinese ink painting. - Vertical 1080×1920, 30 fps, 18 seconds, an mp4 with music, saved in the current directory. - Every frame is a pure function of time t, all randomness seeded; render with a headless browser frame by frame, encode with ffmpeg, then add the music. [Get the painting first] - If you can generate images (any image tool), generate a vertical ink-wash landscape: Jiangnan in misty rain, three layers of mountains paling into the distance, the near ones in rich dark ink with texture strokes and moss dots; white-walled houses with dark roofs and willows half hidden in mist on the left; the lower half a wide empty river with a few faint ink lines; open sky above. Five tones of ink, a touch of pale green on the willows only. No text, seal, boats, people or birds in it — those are animated. - If you can't, build it from ink layers: three ranges, the houses, willows, river lines. [How ink reaches the paper] - Ink is not paint: each layer has a map of how much ink and a map of when it arrives. Ink creeps out from where the brush touched, darker at its wet front, a little lighter once dry. Everything adds up as density and the paper absorbs light through it (paper × e^(−density)), so the five tones come out by themselves. - The painting spreads from mid-mountain (about 260, 620): the dark bones arrive first, the pale washes after; it is all there by about 4 s. [The picture is alive the whole time — this is the style] - Laying the ink down is only the first few seconds; until the last frame something keeps moving: - From 4.5 s, fine rain slants down and the drops ring the river. - Two bands of mist drift sideways, thinning the ink as they pass. - From 6.5 s, a small covered boat crosses the river slowly from right to left, the boatman in a straw hat working the oar, a faint wake behind. - The camera pushes in slowly the whole time. - A large emptiness, one small life: half the frame or more is paper and mist; one small thing really moves. [Title and seal] - At 12.5 s, a vertical title in running script top right, "烟雨", brushed in one character at a time, with a small line of verse beside it, "多少楼台烟雨中". - At 15.6 s a white-text seal "江南": seal script carved out of a red block, the two characters right to left, stretched to fill the square; uneven paste, specks of bare paper, chipped corners; a small press as it lands. [Sound] - Synthesize the music in code: a pentatonic pluck (guzheng feel) on D, one note every 1.3 s, over a long pad; from 4.5 s a 13-second wash of wind and rain; a soft thud as the seal lands. [Check before you hand it over] - Look at a contact sheet: once the ink is down, is something still moving? A painting that holds still is a slideshow. - A row of identical triangles: vary the mountains — rounded, jagged, flat-topped, a single peak, different heights and widths. - Everything one grey: distant pale, near dense. - Too busy: remove things until half the frame is paper.
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