Spring will not let the garden rest, so Winter waits outside the gate — and Jan's bulb, the one his mother left him, never flowers.
Style Art Nouveau poster (Alphonse Mucha)18 keyframes5 ghost framesModel Qwen-Image 2.1 · fast
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18 keyframes. 5 ghost frames — the one-change-per-edit steps between them — are hidden; switch them on at the bottom left.
01
A clay pot on a sunny windowsill; in it, one fat golden bulb that has never sprouted.
02
The walled garden in full bloom and hot gold light; Spring, crowned with blossom, stands in the middle with her arms flung wide. Beyond the wall the fields are white with snow.
03
Jan, the young gardener, waters the dry bulb on the windowsill.
04
At the iron gate: beyond the bars, outside the garden, Winter waits in the cold, crowned with icicles, looking away.
in between
AE05a Spring comes to the gate and reaches for it.
05
Thorny briars have grown over the gate and through its bars; Spring stands beside it. Winter is barely visible behind the thorns.
in between
AE06a The garden wide again: the gate is choked with briars; the roses and lilies have gone brown and droop.
06
The whole garden is sick: brown drooping flowers, the gate barred with briars, the pond thick with green scum.
in between
AE07a At the window, Spring appears beside Jan as he waters the bulb.
07
Jan has set his watering can down on the sill and turns to Spring with his hands held out, asking for her help.
08
Spring laughs and holds her hand over the pot; golden sunlight pours from her palm onto the bulb.
09
The windowsill again: the bulb has shrivelled, small and dark and bent.
10
At the gate, Jan tears the thorny briars away with both hands; Winter waits behind them.
11
The gate stands open, the torn briars hanging from it. Winter waits in the gateway; Jan stands back by the pillar.
12
In the open gateway Winter turns to Jan with a tired smile and holds out her hand.
13
Winter steps into the sick garden, arms spread; Spring storms away across the lawn, glaring back at her; Jan watches from the cottage door.
in between
AE11a Winter stands just inside the open gate, her arms spread wide over the garden, while Jan watches from the lawn.
14
Frost and snow over the whole garden; everything is white and asleep. Winter stands with her arms spread; Jan watches from the lawn.
15
All winter, at the window: Jan, in a coat and scarf, sits by the sill watching the shrivelled bulb.
in between
AE12a The windowsill in the cold: snow in the pot, and one green tip pushing up from the bulb.
16
A single white snowdrop has flowered from the bulb, in the snow.
17
Spring comes home in soft spring light: Winter holds the open gate, and the two smile at each other.
18
The same windowsill as the beginning, in soft spring light: the snowdrop in flower in the clay pot.
Cast, props & sets
The border (held in every frame)Set: the gardenThe pot and his mother's bulbSpringWinterJanSet: the garden (with his mother's pot on the sill)
Thrown away (116)
candidates/border_t1.png — weaker than t2candidates/border_t3.png — weaker than t2candidates/border_t4.png — weaker than t2candidates/garden_t1.png — cottage too near, crowds the right halfcandidates/garden_t2.png — inner vine border / pot sill too nearcandidates/garden_t4.png — inner vine border / pot sill too nearcandidates/pot_t1.png — smaller bulbcandidates/pot_t3.png — bulb has roots showing (t3, judge FAIL)candidates/spring_t1.png — weaker than t2candidates/spring_t3.png — weaker than t2candidates/winter_t1.png — weaker than t2candidates/winter_t3.png — weaker than t2candidates/jan_t1.png — weaker than t2candidates/jan_t3.png — weaker than t2candidates/garden-pot_t1.png — taller pot than the canonical bowlcandidates/garden-pot_t3.png — taller pot than the canonical bowlcandidates/border2_t1.png — ferns intrude further into the window / asymmetriccandidates/border2_t3.png — ferns intrude further into the window / asymmetriccandidates/border2_t4.png — ferns intrude further into the window / asymmetriccandidates/gate_t2.png — beyond the gate reads green-blue, the snow lostcandidates/gate_t3.png — outside half-green; gate heaviercandidates/sill_t1.png — pink blossom pattern painted into the window glass — a flower beside "it never flowers"candidates/sill_t2.png — pink blossom pattern painted into the window glass — a flower beside "it never flowers"candidates/window_t1.png — v1 crop cut the sill at the frame edge (superseded by window2)candidates/window_t2.png — v1 crop cut the sill at the frame edge (superseded by window2)candidates/window_t3.png — v1 crop cut the sill at the frame edge (superseded by window2)candidates/window2_t1.png — bulb smaller / sill lower; t3 cleanestcandidates/window2_t2.png — bulb smaller / sill lower; t3 cleanestcandidates/AE02_t1.png — HEADLESS: the mask top (y 130) cut Spring at the neck — the model drew her taller than the box (judge DOUBT, right)candidates/AE02_t2.png — HEADLESS: the mask top (y 130) cut Spring at the neck — the model drew her taller than the box (judge DOUBT, right)candidates/AE02_t3.png — HEADLESS: the mask top (y 130) cut Spring at the neck — the model drew her taller than the box (judge DOUBT, right)plates/sill-plain.png — local inpaint of the glass motif smeared the window frame bars (colour masks caught the warm frame) — do it as a masked editcandidates/AE02v2_t1.png — dress bleeds into the pond rimcandidates/AE02v2_t3.png — smaller, crown cut by the mask top edgecandidates/AE03_t2.png — spout aimed past the potcandidates/AE03_t3.png — figure crowds the window, can over the sill edgecandidates/AE04_t1.png — fainter behind the barscandidates/AE04_t3.png — fainter, hair blends with the barscandidates/sill2_t1.png — equivalent; t2 keeps the curtain edge like the originalcandidates/sill2_t3.png — equivalent; t2 keeps the curtain edge like the originalcandidates/AE05a_t1.png — crown smaller, face lowercandidates/AE05a_t2.png — face hidden by hair (turned away)candidates/AE07a_t1.png — face hidden, cut at the mask edgecandidates/AE07a_t2.png — hair cut by a vertical mask seam at x~930candidates/garden-sick1_t1.png — left roses still pinkcandidates/garden-sick1_t2.png — muddier, foreground a dark masscandidates/window-shrivel_t1.png — less shrivelled than t2candidates/window-shrivel_t3.png — less shrivelled than t2candidates/gate-open_t1.png — DOUBLE gate: the open gateway shows two leaves (judge FAIL "2 gates", right 3/3) — AE04 is one leafcandidates/gate-open_t2.png — DOUBLE gate: the open gateway shows two leaves (judge FAIL "2 gates", right 3/3) — AE04 is one leafcandidates/gate-open_t3.png — DOUBLE gate: the open gateway shows two leaves (judge FAIL "2 gates", right 3/3) — AE04 is one leafcandidates/AE05_t2.png — Winter hidden by the briars (judge FAIL "1 woman" right)candidates/AE05_t3.png — Winter fainter than t1candidates/gate-open2_t2.png — leaf drawn edge-on and thin — reads as a polecandidates/gate-open2_t3.png — leaf tall and double-archedcandidates/AE07b_t1.png — hands less open / less legible than t2candidates/AE07b_t3.png — hands less open / less legible than t2candidates/AE08_t1.png — less shrivelled than t3candidates/AE08_t2.png — less shrivelled than t3candidates/AE12_t1.png — a vertical mask seam at x=730 cuts him (he leans past the mask edge to the sill)candidates/AE12_t2.png — a vertical mask seam at x=730 cuts him (he leans past the mask edge to the sill)candidates/AE12_t3.png — a vertical mask seam at x=730 cuts him (he leans past the mask edge to the sill)candidates/AE09a_t2.png — Winter hidden behind his arm (judge FAIL right)candidates/AE09a_t3.png — Winter fainter than t1candidates/AE07_t1.png — no hand toward the potcandidates/AE07_t3.png — hand palm-up at her waist, not toward the potcandidates/AE12v2_t1.png — soft seam at the scarf; smallercandidates/AE12v2_t3.png — arm crowds the potcandidates/AE14_t1.png — a second gate leaf drawn at the right postcandidates/AE14_t3.png — a second gate leaf at the right postcandidates/sill-snow_t1.png — snow edge rougher than t2candidates/sill-snow_t3.png — snow edge rougher than t2candidates/garden-open_t1.png — TWO gate leaves (the medium has one) — judge DOUBT rightcandidates/garden-open_t2.png — TWO gate leaves (the medium has one) — judge DOUBT rightcandidates/garden-open_t3.png — TWO gate leaves (the medium has one) — judge DOUBT rightcandidates/garden-open2_t2.png — t2 leaf edge-on in the middle of the gateway; t3 leaf smallercandidates/garden-open2_t3.png — t2 leaf edge-on in the middle of the gateway; t3 leaf smallercandidates/AE12a_t2.png — no shoot at allcandidates/AE12a_t1.png — tip tiny, hidden by the bulb's bent topcandidates/AE09b_t1.png — WINTER GONE from the gateway (3/3: a masked add/keep inside the same mask erased her; judge passed t1 — counted Jan as a woman) ; t1 green meadow outside, t3 blankcandidates/AE09b_t3.png — WINTER GONE from the gateway (3/3: a masked add/keep inside the same mask erased her; judge passed t1 — counted Jan as a woman) ; t1 green meadow outside, t3 blankcandidates/AE10_t1.png — body frontal — reads as standing, not leavingcandidates/AE10_t3.png — smaller, face half hiddencandidates/AE11a_t1.png — arms less spreadcandidates/AE11a_t3.png — smaller, dress blends with the pathcandidates/AE13_t1.png — smaller bell than t3candidates/AE13_t2.png — smaller bell than t3candidates/AE09b2_t1.png — Winter a pale ghost squeezed behind Jan, clipped by the mask edge at x 405 (judge FAIL/DOUBT right) — the gateway is too narrow with Jan in itcandidates/AE09b2_t2.png — Winter a pale ghost squeezed behind Jan, clipped by the mask edge at x 405 (judge FAIL/DOUBT right) — the gateway is too narrow with Jan in itcandidates/AE09b2_t3.png — Winter a pale ghost squeezed behind Jan, clipped by the mask edge at x 405 (judge FAIL/DOUBT right) — the gateway is too narrow with Jan in itcandidates/AE09b3_t2.png — Jan faces RIGHT, away from her (nose right)candidates/AE09b3_t3.png — Jan faces RIGHT, away from hercandidates/AE15_t1.png — equivalent; t2 soil closest to AE01candidates/AE15_t3.png — equivalent; t2 soil closest to AE01candidates/AE09v3_t1.png — hand shorter of him than t2candidates/AE09v3_t3.png — hand shorter of him than t2candidates/AE07v2_t1.png — the beam comes from the sky onto her hand, not from hercandidates/AE07v2_t3.png — glow at the bulb only, the pouring reads lesscandidates/AE07b-can_t2.png — spout into the potcandidates/AE07b-can_t3.png — spout into the potcandidates/garden-open2-shriv_t1.png — smaller / less legible at wide scale than t2candidates/garden-open2-shriv_t3.png — smaller / less legible at wide scale than t2candidates/garden-sick2-briars_t2.png — a solid mass — the gate unreadablecandidates/garden-sick2-briars_t3.png — mask rectangle visible at the top edgecandidates/AE07b-can2_t1.png — spout touches the pot rimcandidates/AE07b-can2_t2.png — spout curls into a hookcandidates/AE11a-jan_t1.png — HEADLESS 3/3: the mask top (y 250) cut his head — my own rule #57 broken (the model draws the figure bigger than "the same small size")candidates/AE11a-jan_t2.png — HEADLESS 3/3: the mask top (y 250) cut his head — my own rule #57 broken (the model draws the figure bigger than "the same small size")candidates/AE11a-jan_t3.png — HEADLESS 3/3: the mask top (y 250) cut his head — my own rule #57 broken (the model draws the figure bigger than "the same small size")candidates/AE11a-jan2_t2.png — smaller, face less legiblecandidates/AE11a-jan2_t3.png — taller than Winter (cap above the wall)candidates/AE10-jan-door_t3.png — near-frontal face, looks at the viewer, not at Spring or Wintercandidates/AE07b-can3_t1.png — two handles: a top arch AND a side loopcandidates/AE07b-can3_t2.png — two handles: a top arch AND a side loopcandidates/AE10-gate-briars_t1.png — only a few thin specks: does not read as briars at frame scalecandidates/AE10-gate-briars_t2.png — scattered floating fragments, a bar washed out
