A man runs through old Bangalore with his baby on his chest, trying to get to a school. At the door the baby vanishes, he is in school uniform, and the whole scene collapses. Dream by Abhishek.
Style Flat grey graphic novel (1980s black-and-white printed comic: ink line and four flat greys)12 keyframes2 ghost framesModel Qwen-Image 2.1 · fast
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12 keyframes. 2 ghost frames — the one-change-per-edit steps between them — are hidden; switch them on at the bottom left.
01
A man runs toward us down a wide white road under huge trees in the evening, a baby in a carrier on his chest. Two auto rickshaws and a scooter drive away from us down the left of the road.
02
Closer: his face is anxious. The baby on his chest looks out, calm and quiet.
03
The street from the side: the man stands at the edge of the road, peering left down it, one hand half-raised, palm down, as an auto rickshaw drives off to the left.
04
He runs on to the right under the big trees, the baby on his chest. The auto has gone.
05
An old stone school with pointed arches, a clock tower and a SCHOOL sign over its entrance, under a light morning sky. The man stands below the tower, looking up at the clock.
06
Over his head, the tower clock reads nine o'clock in the morning light (the evening streets are an intended dream discontinuity).
07
In front of the arched entrance under the SCHOOL sign, he looks up at the clock again.
08
Seen from inside the entrance: he comes through the stone arch toward us, the baby on his chest.
09
The same moment: the carrier on his chest is suddenly empty. The baby has vanished (intended).
in between
AI09b The same pose, and now he is in a school uniform: white shirt, dark tie, short trousers (intended).
10
Still himself, in school uniform, he stands in the arch with his palms turned up, puzzled.
in between
AI11a Cracks run across the whole picture, and across him.
11
The picture falls apart into torn pieces of paper: the dream collapses (intended).
12
A white end card: Abhishek's Dream (or Nightmare?), dream by Abhishek.
Cast, props & sets
The dreamer (a stylised figure, not a likeness)His baby, eight months oldThe dreamer with the baby in a chest carrierThe dreamer in school uniformAn auto rickshawSet: the big white roadSet: the roadsideSet: the old stone school in the morning, the clock at nineSet: inside the entrance arch, morning outside
Thrown away (50)
candidates/man_t1.png — skin white/unshaded vs light-grey spec; heavier hair; shirt darker than mid greycandidates/man_t2.png — skin left white (M3 skin light grey not met)candidates/baby_t1.png — slightly worried brow; drawn shadow under the baby on the papercandidates/baby_t2.png — downturned mouth reads as about to crycandidates/street_t2.png — vanishing point pushed left, road dominated by a hard kerb band; less open middlecandidates/street_t3.png — denser trunk clutter on the right; wall gateways crowd the middlecandidates/roadside_t1.png — road recedes diagonally to the left: not side-on, travel direction ambiguouscandidates/roadside_t3.png — kerb curves into the corner; the road bends, no clear left-right lanecandidates/school_t1.png — clock face small (~54 px), too small for the clock beatcandidates/school_t3.png — building recedes at a steep angle; entrance small at far rightcandidates/auto_t2.png — body squat, front wheel small and detached-lookingcandidates/auto_t3.png — kept as alternate; t1 has the clearer canopy silhouette (no defect)candidates/entrance_t1.png — a person standing outside on the terrace (count person 0 failed); the steps rise UP away from the doorcandidates/entrance_t2.png — a person outside + a swung door leaf at the right (open-door redraw risk)candidates/man-baby_t2.png — dark smudges on the trousers at the mask bottom; baby frowningcandidates/man-baby_t3.png — dark smudges on the trousers at the mask bottomcandidates/man-uniform_t1.png — arms mid grey; knee socks drawn up to the knee (less bare knee than t3)candidates/man-uniform_t2.png — arms mid grey; kept t3 for its cleaner arm outlinescandidates/S2-auto_t3.png — white blotches on the road around the auto (mask-edge fill artefact)candidates/S2-auto_t2.png — no defect; t1 chosen (sits nearer the left edge, leaving the right half open)candidates/cel-run_t2.png — brows lowered: reads angry, not anxiouscandidates/cel-run_t3.png — brows lowered: reads angry, not anxiouscandidates/cel-runon_t1.png — runs LEFT (front leg and face to the left): breaks the RIGHT screen directioncandidates/cel-runon_t2.png — runs LEFT (front leg and face to the left): breaks the RIGHT screen directioncandidates/cel-arrive_t2.png — no defect; face turned further away (less readable than t1)candidates/cel-arrive_t3.png — baby frowning (reads upset)candidates/cel-lookagain_t1.png — baby slid to his side, brow worriedcandidates/cel-lookagain_t2.png — baby slid off-centre to his right sidecandidates/cel-enter_t1.png — figure too tall for the box: head cut by the mask top at y200 (headless class, AE); ~620+ px vs the archcandidates/cel-enter_t2.png — figure too tall for the box: head cut by the mask top at y200 (headless class, AE); ~620+ px vs the archcandidates/cel-enter_t3.png — figure too tall for the box: head cut by the mask top at y200 (headless class, AE); ~620+ px vs the archcandidates/cel-confused_t1.png — head cut at the mask top; knitted brows read angrycandidates/cel-confused_t2.png — knitted brows + downturned mouth read angry, not confusedcandidates/cel-confused_t3.png — knitted brows read angry, not confused; figure larger than the re-pinned enter scalecandidates/W1-autos_t1.png — no scooter (A2 two-wheelers); near auto oversizedcandidates/W1-autos_t2.png — no scooter (A2 two-wheelers); near auto oversizedcandidates/cel-hail_t3.png — head cut by the mask top (headless class)candidates/cel-hail_t2.png — no defect; t1 face reads the look LEFT more clearlycandidates/cel-enter_t2.png — brows lowered: reads angrycandidates/cel-enter_t3.png — no defect; t1 face and stride read bettercandidates/cel-confused_t1.png — head sunk low / face small and partly hidden in the zoom; figure smallest (~500 px)candidates/cel-confused_t3.png — brows still knitted at the centre: reads cross, not puzzledcandidates/cel-empty_t2.png — no defect; carrier narrower than the full one (reads as a different carrier)candidates/cel-empty_t3.png — no defect; t1 slack shape reads empty more clearlycandidates/cel-swap_t2.png — faint line across the neck under the jaw (mask-edge seam)candidates/cel-swap_t3.png — faint line across the neck under the jaw (mask-edge seam)candidates/cel-hail_t1.png — horizontal seam across the trousers at the kneecandidates/cel-hail_t2.png — baby slid to his side; hand palm-up offeringcandidates/cel-runon_t2.png — back leg sliced at the mask edgecandidates/cel-runon_t3.png — profile with lowered brows (reads cross); baby to the side
