Butterfly Eyes Prompt: The Eye Transition AI Video

One complete 15-second cinematic sequence. Vertical 9:16. Photorealistic live action. No music.
Three locked-off setups: A 0.00-7.00 butterfly approach, eye-match in darkness, long portrait reveal. B 7.00-10.00 short rear knee-length shot, two quick fingertip hops. C 10.00-15.00 tight facial close-up, butterfly walking on the cheek. Hard cuts at 7.00 and 10.00 only. No other shots, transitions or camera moves.
@image1 - CHARACTER AND COSTUME ONLY
Both panels show the same woman: portrait for face, full body for costume. Preserve her exact face, green eyes, fair freckled skin, natural makeup, small gold hoop earrings and long wavy centre-parted hair, dark burgundy-red roots blending into copper-orange ends.
Costume: black robe with wide bell sleeves, emerald velvet lining, lowered hood, silver bird-and-vine sleeve embroidery; white shirt, green-and-silver striped tie, black waistcoat with pale piping and silver buttons, short black pleated skirt with pale hem stripe, black belt with silver buckle, chains and black pouch.
The hood never rises. Hair never shortens or changes colour. Details never change sides; front details never appear on the back. Do not use the grey background, white divider, reference pose or split layout. No extra jewellery.
@image2 - CORRIDOR ONLY
Dark emerald panelled walls with gilt mouldings, black doors with brass handles, receding arches, diagonal black-and-white marble checkerboard floor, brass candle sconces, candle chandeliers along the centre, closed far double door. Oval gilt mirror and console on the left, framed prints on both walls, brass umbrella stand on the right. Fixed positions; off-frame furniture never moves into view. No carpet, moving doors, invented furniture, other people or recording devices, including in the mirror.
BUTTERFLY
Exactly one matte-black butterfly: fine scales and veins, short plain black hindwing tails, two slender antennae. Broad forewings with fine ridged veins catching a faint warm sheen. Each forewing carries one round eyespot in its upper outer part: a pale cream outer ring, a thin black ring, and an olive-green centre with a tiny dark pupil, like a staring eye. The two eyespots are the dominant, most readable feature; seen together they look like a pair of eyes. Everything else is dark black-brown: no bands, stripes, blue, red or pale patches, nothing on the hindwings. The eyespots are flat scale patterns, not 3D eyeballs. Same design and fingertip size throughout. Eyespots glow only in the eye-match; never in B or C.
CAMERA
ARRI ALEXA 35 colour, spherical primes, 24 fps, 180-degree shutter, fine grain. Rigid tripods: zero translation, pan, tilt, roll movement and zoom. No drift, lens breathing, push-in or reframing.
A: corridor centreline near the entrance, lens 1.53 m high, horizontal axis toward the far door, roll 0, 50mm close-focus prime. Her mark about 0.85 m away, centred on the optical axis, medium shot from mid-chest up. Perspective never changes. Screen-space match cut: the butterfly’s depth is set by its screen size.
B: centreline behind her, lens 1.15 m high, level toward the far door, 35mm, hair to knees, centred. Fixed 8-degree Dutch angle, horizon lower on the left, from the first frame.
C: directly in front, lens at eye height, 75mm portrait lens, roll 0, top of head to just below the chin.
Framing and anatomy outrank estimated distances.
SETUP A - 0.00-7.00
Registration (percent of the 9:16 frame, X from left, Y from top): final butterfly body X50% Y34%, wingspan about 38% of frame width, perfectly centred and symmetrical. Screen-left eyespot centre X41% Y31%, screen-right eyespot centre X59% Y31%, level, as far apart as her eyes. Her iris centres replace these exact points by placement, never by stretching her face.
0.00-0.50 - Empty corridor in warm candle light, sharp. No person or butterfly.
0.50-1.10 - Focus slowly drifts off the distant architecture.
1.10-1.90 - The butterfly appears deep in the corridor near X50% Y40%, wings beating, approaching. Focus tracks it; the corridor is soft by 1.90.
1.90-2.50 - It drifts right and descends toward X60% Y42%. Broad readable wingbeats: wings fold narrow hiding the eyespots, open wide revealing them, body rising and dipping. No straight line, landing, hover or unreadable flutter. Body within X40-64%.
2.50-2.80 - It curves back to the centre toward X50% Y34%, slowing, still airborne.
2.80-3.05 - One slower final opening: the butterfly hangs dead centre, perfectly frontal and symmetrical, upper wing surfaces flat to the lens at fullest spread, the two round eyespots stare into the lens like a pair of eyes, centred on the registration points, faint drift.
3.05-3.22 - At fullest spread all light snaps off, no fade. Two short irregular electrical flashes, the second weaker, showing only a faint silhouette and the two eyespot centres glowing olive-green, fixed in place.
3.22-3.34 - True black: only the two olive-green luminous points. Hide the butterfly-to-person swap and focus reset here. Nothing moves. No morph or wing dissolve.
3.34-3.60 - Faint light reveals her face already around the two points, now glowing irises. Corridor still black. No blink or movement.
3.60-3.85 - Warm light returns smoothly and quickly; the glow fades into natural green irises. A lighting change, not a crossfade.
3.85-7.00 - Long portrait hold: centred, frontal medium shot from mid-chest up, head level, copper hair over her shoulders. One shoulder subtly raised, chin slightly lifted, eyes into the lens. Her faint knowing, almost villainous smirk grows very slowly. Subtle breathing and one slow blink around 5.50. No head movement or gesture. Corridor soft. No butterfly.
SETUP B - 7.00-10.00
Back to camera, centred, weight on one leg, hip pushed out, long hair down the robe. Head turned screen-left in clean profile throughout; never turns to camera; no hair crosses the profile. Left hand raised beside her face above the shoulder, not overlapping it, index, middle and ring fingertips slightly apart; bell sleeve falls toward the elbow. Right arm across the waist, hand on her left hip. Profile and fingertips both in focus. Constant light.
7.00-7.50 - Butterfly already on the left index fingertip, wings half-open.
7.50-8.30 - First hop: brief flutter, short low arc to the middle fingertip; takeoff, flight, foot contact, small settling wobble.
8.30-8.60 - A short settle on the middle fingertip.
8.60-9.40 - Second hop to the ring fingertip, full short arc and balancing spread showing both eyespots.
9.40-10.00 - Stays on the ring fingertip, settles half-open.
It never leaves the hand. She never lowers her hand, walks or grasps it.
10.00 - Hard cut from butterfly on the ring fingertip to butterfly already on her right cheek. No travel animation, wipe, zoom or dissolve.
SETUP C - 10.00-15.00
Head nearly frontal. Her right cheek, screen-left, unobstructed: hair tucked behind that ear, gold hoop visible. Butterfly on the outer cheek below the cheekbone, wings below the eye and above the jaw, body angled down and outward away from nose and mouth. Eye, freckled cheek and contact sharp; focus fixed.
She gazes at a distant point screen-left, about 15 degrees off the lens, past the butterfly. Calm, distant, neutral. No smirk or reaction.
10.00-11.00 - Wings slowly open and partly close, feet planted.
11.00-12.20 - Three or four small alternating steps down and outward, never sliding; one balancing wing opening. She blinks once.
12.20-13.20 - Wings open broadly showing both non-glowing eyespots, then partly close. Nothing covers the eye.
13.20-14.20 - A few steps toward the outer lower cheek, above the jaw. No hop or takeoff.
14.20-15.00 - Settles half-open. Same gaze. End on the held close-up, no fade.
Legs alternate naturally; feet never drift or dent skin. No contact with eye, nose or lips.
LOOK AND SOUND
Warm candle light, soft on skin, rich shadow on the robe. Distinct velvet, embroidery, metal, hair and wing scales. Natural pores and freckles; no beauty filter or waxy skin. Only A has the blackout; B and C keep constant light.
Room tone, papery wing sounds, fabric rustle. One electrical snap and sputter in A. Silence in the true black. Room tone continues across both cuts. No music, speech or whooshes.
No extra people, duplicate butterflies, changing face, hair or costume, extra fingers, text or watermarks.