Every New Year, Grandma cooks a carp. This year her grandson makes friends with it, and when she comes with the pot he looks exactly like the lucky picture on the wall.
Style Chinese New Year woodblock print (Yangliuqing nianhua)14 keyframes2 ghost framesModel Qwen-Image 2.1 · fast
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14 keyframes. 2 ghost frames — the one-change-per-edit steps between them — are hidden; switch them on at the bottom left.
01
New Year's Eve in Grandma's courtyard: a big green water vat, and on the wall a New Year picture of a boy hugging a red carp.
02
The New Year picture: a round-cheeked boy hugging a huge red carp.
03
Grandma lowers a big live carp into the water vat.
04
Later, her grandson Bao leans over the vat, nose to nose with the carp, smiling.
05
Grandma appears in the kitchen doorway with a big steaming cooking pot, her eyes on the vat.
06
Bao grips the vat and looks back at her in alarm.
07
He heaves the carp out of the water in a splash.
08
Bao hugs the carp and glares at her; Grandma frowns at him from the doorway.
in between
AH08a Grandma steps out toward him with the pot.AH08b Bao clutches the carp and faces Grandma, wide-eyed, as she comes on.
09
Against the wall beside the picture, Bao strikes the painted boy's pose with a sly smile.
10
Side by side: the painted boy with his painted carp, and Bao, copying him, with the real one.
11
Grandma stops dead and stares at Bao beside the picture, the pot held still at her belly.
12
She bursts out laughing and sets the pot down on the paving.
13
Bao lowers the carp back into the vat while Grandma watches, smiling.
14
The courtyard again, quiet: the carp leaps for joy in its vat.
Cast, props & sets
GrandmaBao, her grandsonThe New Year carpThe cooking potThe New Year picture (the plant)Set: the courtyardSet: the courtyard with the picture on the wallPlate: the vat (a crop of the set)Plate: the wall and the picture (a crop of the set)Plate: by the kitchen door (a crop of the set)
Thrown away (85)
candidates/grandma_t1.png — ground shadow under the feet (stray detail copied into every frame)candidates/boy_t1.png — no red tie on the tuft: mismatch with the picturecandidates/boy_t3.png — tuft without the red tie; stiffcandidates/carp_t2.png — black face patch, blue tail: off the picture's carpcandidates/carp_t3.png — black face patchcandidates/pot_t2.png — lid floats above an open pot, water visiblecandidates/pot_t3.png — food inside and a red handle: not plaincandidates/picture_t3.png — two tufts: the boy's hair differs from Bao's sheetcandidates/picture_t4.png — fish head covers his cheek, 3/4 face: the pose is harder to copycandidates/courtyard_t1.png — three walls in perspective, doorway centred: no space for the picture between vat and doorcandidates/courtyard_t3.png — doorway centre-right: collides with the picture's placecandidates/courtyard_t4.png — side walls, yellow smudges on the right wallcandidates/P_vat-carp_t3.png — carp head drawn over the vat rim at the right: the rim is brokencandidates/cel-boy-lean_t1.png — made with the v1 vat mask (dado bricks cut into the mask): superseded by the v2 maskcandidates/cel-boy-grab_t1.png — v1 mask: grey brick patch cut into his hands at the vat edge; vat rim redrawn/lost; dark smear on the vat right edgecandidates/cel-boy-grab_t2.png — v1 mask: grey brick patch cut into his hands at the vat edge; vat rim redrawn/lost; dark smear on the vat right edgecandidates/cel-boy-grab_t3.png — v1 mask: grey brick patch cut into his hands at the vat edge; vat rim redrawn/lost; dark smear on the vat right edgecandidates/cel-boy-grab_t4.png — v1 mask: grey brick patch cut into his hands at the vat edge; vat rim redrawn/lost; dark smear on the vat right edgecandidates/cel-boy-return_t1.png — v1 mask: grey brick patch cut into his hands at the vat edge; vat rim redrawncandidates/cel-boy-return_t2.png — v1 mask: grey brick patch cut into his hands at the vat edge; vat rim redrawncandidates/cel-boy-return_t3.png — v1 mask: grey brick patch cut into his hands at the vat edge; vat rim redrawncandidates/cel-boy-return_t4.png — v1 mask: brick patch at the vat edgecandidates/cel-boy-lean_t2.png — facing drawn as a BACK view: the back of his head to us, face unreadable in the want beat (preflight facing-drawn-as-back); t2/t4 hands off the rimcandidates/cel-boy-lean_t3.png — facing drawn as a BACK view: the back of his head to us, face unreadable in the want beat (preflight facing-drawn-as-back); t2/t4 hands off the rimcandidates/cel-boy-lean_t4.png — facing drawn as a BACK view: the back of his head to us, face unreadable in the want beat (preflight facing-drawn-as-back); t2/t4 hands off the rimcandidates/cel-grandma-vat_t2.png — doubled dark vat edge beside her (mask ring redrawn)candidates/cel-grandma-vat_t3.png — doubled dark vat edge; carp tail drawn over her handscandidates/cel-grandma-step_t1.png — v1 box 935-1215 too narrow: her front, pot and foot sliced by a hard vertical edge at the box sidecandidates/cel-grandma-step_t2.png — v1 box 935-1215 too narrow: her front, pot and foot sliced by a hard vertical edge at the box sidecandidates/cel-grandma-step_t3.png — v1 box 935-1215 too narrow: her front, pot and foot sliced by a hard vertical edge at the box sidecandidates/cel-grandma-step_t4.png — v1 box 935-1215 too narrow: her front, pot and foot sliced by a hard vertical edge at the box sidecandidates/cel-grandma-vat_t4.png — v1 staging (superseded)candidates/cel-boy-grab_t1.png — v2 box right edge (W 588) sliced his body and trousers with a hard vertical cutcandidates/cel-boy-grab_t2.png — v2 box right edge (W 588) sliced his body and trousers with a hard vertical cutcandidates/cel-boy-grab_t1.png — made with the v2 mask (box right edge at W 588: slices his body); superseded by v3candidates/cel-boy-grab_t3.png — made with the v2 mask (box right edge at W 588: slices his body); superseded by v3candidates/cel-boy-grab_t2.png — made with the v2 mask by the killed pass 4 (skipped by resume in pass 9: resume keys on prompt+images, not the mask); box sliced his bodycandidates/cel-boy-grab_t4.png — made with the v2 mask by the killed pass 4 (skipped by resume in pass 9: resume keys on prompt+images, not the mask); box sliced his bodycandidates/cel-grandma-stare_t1.png — drawn full-figure at doorway scale, not waist-up: a different shot sizecandidates/cel-grandma-stare_t2.png — pot sliced by a hard vertical edge at the mask sidecandidates/cel-boy-grab_t2.png — the whole mask box came back re-tinted darker (a visible rectangle)candidates/cel-boy-grab_t1.png — vat rim redrawn and flattenedcandidates/cel-boy-return_t1.png — vat redrawn with a second body/silhouette behind him; rim lostcandidates/cel-boy-return_t2.png — vat redrawn with a second body/silhouette behind him; rim lostcandidates/cel-boy-return_t3.png — vat redrawn with a second body/silhouette behind him; rim lostcandidates/cel-grandma-step_t1.png — v2 box: the pot sliced by a hard vertical edge at the box left side (x 860)candidates/cel-grandma-step_t2.png — v2 box: the pot sliced by a hard vertical edge at the box left side (x 860)candidates/cel-grandma-step_t3.png — v2 box: the pot sliced by a hard vertical edge at the box left side (x 860)candidates/cel-grandma-step_t4.png — v2 box: the pot sliced by a hard vertical edge at the box left side (x 860)candidates/cel-grandma-laugh_t1.png — the pot on the paving sliced by the mask edge (x 860)candidates/cel-grandma-laugh_t2.png — the pot on the paving sliced by the mask edge (x 860)candidates/cel-grandma-laugh_t4.png — the pot on the paving sliced by the mask edge (x 860)candidates/cel-boy-grab_t1.png — v4 mask (rim ring excluded) split the carp at the rim: its head floats above the rim, detached from the bodycandidates/cel-boy-return_t1.png — v4 mask: the carp split at the rim ring; patch of redrawn water; t1 eye area smearedcandidates/cel-boy-grab_t2.png — v4 mask (rim ring excluded) split the carp at the rim: its head floats above the rim, detached from the bodycandidates/cel-boy-return_t2.png — v4 mask: the carp split at the rim ring; patch of redrawn water; t1 eye area smearedcandidates/cel-boy-grab_t3.png — v4 mask (rim ring excluded) split the carp at the rim: its head floats above the rim, detached from the bodycandidates/cel-boy-return_t3.png — v4 mask: the carp split at the rim ring; patch of redrawn water; t1 eye area smearedcandidates/cel-boy-grab_t4.png — v4 mask (rim ring excluded) split the carp at the rim: its head floats above the rim, detached from the bodycandidates/cel-boy-return_t4.png — v4 mask: the carp split at the rim ring; patch of redrawn water; t1 eye area smearedcandidates/cel-boy-grab-tuft_t2.png — a dark blue rectangle painted behind the tuft (mask box re-tinted)candidates/cel-boy-grab-tuft_t3.png — a dark blue rectangle painted behind the tuft (mask box re-tinted)candidates/cel-boy-grab-tuft_t4.png — a dark blue rectangle painted behind the tuft (mask box re-tinted)candidates/cel-boy-return-shoulder_t2.png — a cream patch painted over the shouldercandidates/cel-grandma-vat3_t1.png — the carp lies flat across the rim: reads as resting, not going incandidates/cel-grandma-vat3_t3.png — the carp lies flat across the rim: reads as resting, not going incandidates/cel-grandma-vat3_t2.png — L1 count 0 (false) and the same staging as t4 with the hand on the fin; t4 clearercandidates/cel-boy-picture-face_t2.png — reads as a plain smile, not slycandidates/cel-boy-picture-face_t3.png — reads as a plain smile, not slyghosts/cel-grandma-vat3.png — all 4 v3 takes slice her back at the box right edge (x 470): box widened to 575 (v4)candidates/cel-boy-picture-carp_t1.png — eye or head shape further from the sheet than t2 (t1 eye small, t3/t4 head pale)candidates/cel-boy-picture-carp_t3.png — eye or head shape further from the sheet than t2 (t1 eye small, t3/t4 head pale)candidates/cel-boy-picture-carp_t4.png — eye or head shape further from the sheet than t2 (t1 eye small, t3/t4 head pale)candidates/cel-grandma-vat4_t1.png — carp lies on the rim / head out of the water: reads as resting, not going in (t3 dives)candidates/cel-grandma-vat4_t2.png — carp lies on the rim / head out of the water: reads as resting, not going in (t3 dives)candidates/cel-grandma-vat4_t4.png — carp lies on the rim / head out of the water: reads as resting, not going in (t3 dives)candidates/cel-boy-return-carp_t1.png — head shape/eye further from the sheet than t2candidates/cel-boy-return-carp_t3.png — head shape/eye further from the sheet than t2candidates/cel-boy-return-carp_t4.png — head shape/eye further from the sheet than t2candidates/W-leap2_t1.png — t2 has the clearest arc with the tail still at the watercandidates/W-leap2_t3.png — t2 has the clearest arc with the tail still at the watercandidates/W-leap2_t4.png — t2 has the clearest arc with the tail still at the watercandidates/cel-boy-back_t1.png — walks forward/left rather than backing; or the carp head covers his face (t3)candidates/cel-boy-back_t2.png — walks forward/left rather than backing; or the carp head covers his face (t3)candidates/cel-boy-back_t3.png — walks forward/left rather than backing; or the carp head covers his face (t3)
