Treehouse village dusk-to-night flight
Treehouse village animation: a single flight from sunset to starlight through lantern-lit trees. Copy the prompt into Claude and make it yours.
The camera starts far from a giant tree just after sunset, then flies in beneath the crowns and cranes up past bridges and hanging pods. Lanterns and windows light in a wave, a red cable car glides by, and the dusk deepens to night. It ends on the whole tree glowing under the Milky Way.
Edit the place name kicker, the final line, the lantern and window light colour, the dusk horizon glow and the cable car paint. In 9:16, it suits travel and hospitality brands, game worlds, children's story trailers and Reels or TikTok posts about places to stay.
Use it for
- Eco lodge promo clip
- Game world trailer opener
- Bedtime story channel intro
Specs
- Length: 16 seconds
- Format: vertical 9:16 (1080x1920), 30 fps
- Built with: Three.js in HyperFrames
- Category: 3D
What happens, beat by beat
- 0 to 2.0 s, hook. The mother tree from about 300 m, sun just set right behind its trunk: a hot amber horizon band and a soft halo behind the crown. One light burns in the…
- 2.0 to 3.85 s, rise. Fly in under the crowns, then crane up from 26 to 44 m past bridges and hanging pods.
- 3.85 to 5.7 s, lanterns. Settle beside a rope bridge leading to a hanging pod. Its round window glows (overshooting, then easing back), its eave lanterns pop, then the bridge lanterns light one by one toward…
- 5.7 to 7.55 s, cable car. A glossy red cabin glides down a sagging cable, window lit, swaying. The camera target tracks it.
- 7.55 to 9.4 s, spiral. Straight down from about 335 m with a slow 32 degree roll. The village lights tree by tree along its spiral, centre outward, over about one second.
- 9.4 to 11.25 s, door. Close on a pod's arched plank door. It swings open (9.85 to 10.6 s) onto a warm little room; the porch rail is strung with fairy lights. Push 9.5 to 8.2…
- 11.25 to 16 s, hero. Pull back out under the crowns, then low and wide looking up at the mother tree under stars and the Milky Way. From 12 s a wave of light climbs the…
Build the world as real geometry (1 unit = 1 m)
- Mother tree. Trunk swept along a leaning, wavering centreline, radius 6.2 m tapering to 1.25 m, with buttress flutes at the base. Bark from a procedural canvas height field (fissures…
- Village. 16 smaller trees on an Archimedean spiral (radius 24 to about 64 m, about 1.15 turns), each with a deck at about 30 m, a pod, and a rope…
- Pods. Lathe body in clearcoated plank wood with warm sheen, lathe cone roof in mossy shingles, brass finial, a round window with its own emissive material, an extruded arched door…
- Crowns as leaf cards. No solid spheres. Each clump is hundreds of alpha-tested quads with a canvas leaf texture, normals bent outward from the clump centre so it lights like…
- Forest sea. The same cards, jittered out to 1 km.
How the prompt opens
Make a silent 16-second, 9:16 (1080x1920, 30 fps) Three.js film: one continuous camera flight through a village built in giant trees, from sunset to starlight, ending on the whole tree glowing under the Milky Way with [your place name, e.g. an invented village called "Canopy"] and [your line, e.g. "Home is up."]. Swap in your own name, line and colours.
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