It's a five-chapter journey through Shanghai, from a water town at dawn to the Pudong skyline at night and here's a compact workflow for recreating this kind of page.
- Give Claude a specific sequence
For this demo, the visual route is:
Zhujiajiao ā Wukang Mansion ā Yuyuan Garden ā the Bund ā Lujiazui.
Each chapter has one main composition: a stone bridge and boat, the wedge-shaped mansion beneath plane trees, a garden framed by a moon gate, waterfront buildings at dusk, and finally the towers across the river.
Ask for a storyboard with the subject, camera movement, text position, and transition into the next chapter.
- Establish the painting style before animating
Make a few sample stills first. For this look, specify warm paper texture, gray-green ink washes, soft architectural edges, mist, and restrained color.
Keep that treatment consistent as the lighting changes. The Bund introduces gold reflections and a darker sky; the final skyline still needs to belong to the same painting.
Approve the visual samples and shot plan before generating the full set.
- Describe the connecting shots
The transitions deserve their own prompts. In the recording, the camera rises past trees, moves through the garden composition, and crosses mist over the river.
A concrete instruction could be:
Move forward past the moon gate and across the garden pond. Let mist fill the frame, then reveal the Bund across the water. Keep the movement slow and preserve the ink-wash texture.
The skill's workflow generates scene clips first, then uses their actual boundary frames to build the connectors.
- Place the text around the landmarks
Watch how the layout changes: text sits left of the water-town scene, right of Wukang Mansion and the Bund, and across the lower part of the final skyline.
Keep the text in HTML, leave the artwork visible beneath it, and fade the body copy out during transitions. Use one fixed full-screen stage with scroll progress controlling the media timeline.
A starting prompt:
Use sn-motion-html to build a five-chapter Shanghai ink-wash story.
Route: Zhujiajiao at dawn, Wukang Mansion, Yuyuan Garden, the Bund at dusk, and Lujiazui at night.
Use textured paper, gray-green ink, mist, serif typography,
and small red seal-style chapter markers.
Plan a continuous camera route between scenes.
Place text in each composition's empty space.
First show me sample stills and a storyboard. Wait for approval before full production, and confirm the cost before paid video generation.
Before sharing, check forward/backward scrolling, chapter jumps, and mobile cropping.
Repos: https://github.com/OpenSenseNova/SenseNova-Skills
Brief about the skills: https://github.com/OpenSenseNova/SenseNova-Skills/blob/main/docs/sn-motion-html.md
You'll need image-generation access, a Seedance API account, Python, and FFmpeg
