Character Idle Loop Animation Prompt
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Character Idle Loop Animation Prompt A detailed prompt for generating a 10-second seamless idle animation loop of a hooded character, with precise camera orbit, sequence timing, and 2.5D hand-drawn style instructions.
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Character @ Image1:
The character's entire appearance - a purple hooded long cloak with a pure black void inside the hood, the face completely invisible, two round pale clasps at the collar, dark segmented heavy pauldrons and iron gauntlets, a wide leather belt with square pouches, a purple tabard with a dark red-purple hanging drape, black greaves and heavy armored boots with pale toe caps, the stocky hulking build, and a long dark metal staff / pole weapon carried across the right shoulder - is defined solely by the @ Image1 character sheet. Read it directly from the image; do not re-describe or reinterpret the look in text. The inside of the hood stays a pure black void and never shows a face or eyes; the pole weapon, the heavy armor and the cloak stay fully consistent with @ Image1 throughout. Stance: keep the standing pose from @ Image1 - stocky and slightly hunched, feet apart and planted, the right arm raised with the iron gauntlet gripping the staff carried on the right shoulder, the left hand at the hip. Performance intent: video-game character idle loop - heavy, imposing, a silent sentinel's presence; since the hood has no face and cannot make expressions, all the "life" is carried by the heavy breathing, the sway of the cloak, and the turning of the hood.
Camera & Scene @ Image1:
Realistic cinematic photography feel, fixed prime lens with a fixed focal length - no zoom of any kind, no pushing in, no pulling out; the subject's size in frame and the camera-to-subject distance stay completely constant from first frame to last. The entire clip is ONE single uninterrupted camera move: the camera performs a smooth orbit around the character at a constant radius and constant angular speed, a clockwise 360° horizontal circle in one continuous take - turning at an even pace, never speeding up or slowing down, never pausing, stuttering, segmenting, jump-cutting or re-framing. Camera height fixed, lens always aimed at the character, the character locked dead-center in frame, framing a constant complete full-body shot (from the top of the hood down to the boots, fully in frame with a safe margin all around). The orbit smoothly and continuously passes through (does not stop at) each angle: roughly 2.5s true profile, roughly 5.0s true back, roughly 7.5s the other true profile, and at exactly 10.0s it returns precisely to the starting front position - the final image coincides exactly with the first frame, seamless loop. The character never moves from his spot. The background never changes - a clean pure-white seamless backdrop, with a soft shadow on the ground. Soft, even frontal light with a touch of warm orange rim light; soft highlights on the heavy armor and the metal staff drift slowly as the camera circles.
Reference:
@ Image1 is the sole anchor for the character's appearance and the painting style (character sheet - preserve strictly, fully consistent throughout, no detail loss).
Sequence:
[0.0s–2.0s] (camera at the front) Idle loop: the breathing is heavy and slow - the broad shoulders and chest rise and fall visibly and slowly with each breath, the purple cloak and drape swaying very slightly with it, the hood fabric stirring gently; the staff-gripping gauntlet's fingers slowly re-settle once, the staff held steady on the shoulder; the weight shifts very slowly and solidly between the feet. The pure black void of the hood faces the camera.
[2.0s–5.0s] (camera passing the true profile, moving toward the true back) The hood turns slowly to one side, scanning the surroundings like a silent sentinel (the inside of the hood staying a pure black void, never revealing a face); the cloak and drape follow with a soft delayed sway, the staff on the shoulder staying steady.
[5.0s–8.5s] (camera moving from the true back - the heavy silhouette of the cloak's back, the back of the belt, the staff carried on the shoulder - toward the other true profile) Carrying the momentum of the previous turn, he slowly turns the hood to the other side and keeps scanning; then his chest heaves one deep breath and releases it heavily, the shoulders rising and dropping visibly, the cloak sweeping in one wide slow billow before settling back. The body keeps its idle micro-motion.
[8.5s–10.0s] (camera back at the front) The hood turns back to face the camera, breathing rhythm, staff grip and cloak returning to the starting state - the image matches the first frame exactly, forming a seamless loop.
No displacement, no attacking action anywhere; the camera runs in one continuous even take that never stops, each turn carried naturally by inertia into the next. Mood → heavy, imposing, silent.
Sound: heavy slow breathing tightly synced to the rising chest and shoulders, the faint clink of the armor plates, the creak of the leather belt and pouches, the low rustle of the heavy cloak cloth, an occasional light tick of the metal staff against the pauldron. Ambient sound design and foley only, no background music.
Style:
2.5D rendering: a 3D rig drives the motion, the outer layer is entirely covered in hand-drawn 2D marker (feutre) + gouache brushwork, the 3D rig is never exposed. Cel-shaded flat color, 2–3 value steps, absolutely no black outlines, no contour lines of any kind (cel shading, no black outline). Visible marker strokes and brush blocking, thick gouache texture, paper grain. The body pose is locked to @ Image1 (no jitter, no warping, no re-posing), the inside of the hood always a pure black void that never shows a face or eyes; the heavy armor, the staff and the cloak stay rigid and stable in structure, the staff straight and always held steady on the shoulder, the cloak billowing naturally without clipping; the belt pouches and armor-plate details never lost; framing and subject size constant across the whole clip. Restrained motion blur, on-twos stepped-frame rhythm for a hand-drawn breathing feel. No music, ambient sound effects only. Palette: anchored to @ Image1 - pure white background, purple cloak and tabard, dark red-purple drape, dark grey-black heavy armor, brown leather belt, black staff.
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