Macaque Maintains Eye Contact with a Moving Camera

Format

Text Parameterized

Inputs

image_1 (image) · Required video_1 (video) · Required duration (text) · Optional · Default: 8 seconds

Outputs

Generated_video (video)

Replace the ${…} placeholders with your values before using this prompt. See parameters and defaults below.

Subject
A single Japanese macaque matching image_1 exactly, seated in the same fixed position on the snow-covered rock beside the steaming winter hot spring. Preserve the macaque’s identity, facial proportions, fur, anatomy, scale, posture, and placement. Keep its body anchored and stationary, with its eyes open. The macaque’s face must remain aimed directly at the camera lens throughout the entire shot.

Action
For the full ${duration:8 seconds}, use video_1 to control all camera movement and timing. The macaque’s head must continuously track the camera on every frame.

As the camera moves through 3D space, rotate the macaque’s head at the neck so the front of its face, nose, and both eyes remain aimed directly at the center of the camera lens. Treat the camera as a continuously moving look-at target for the head.

Track the camera’s actual position frame by frame, including right or left movement, rising or lowering, circling, passing around the subject, acceleration, deceleration, and sudden whip movements. The head must point toward the camera’s physical position, not merely follow its general direction of travel.

Do not allow any frame in which the head remains facing its previous direction while the camera moves elsewhere. There must be no intentional reaction delay. During rapid camera movement, rotate the neck quickly enough to keep the face aimed at the lens. The eyes must reinforce the same target and remain focused directly into the lens.

Do not let the body follow the camera. Keep the shoulders, chest, torso, arms, hands, hips, and legs locked in their image_1 positions. Only the neck and head may track the camera. Let neck fur compress and shift naturally as the head rotates. Snowfall, steam, and water may have subtle natural secondary motion.

Camera
Use video_1 as the absolute camera reference. Copy its complete camera trajectory and temporal behavior, including position, direction, speed, acceleration, deceleration, pauses, orbiting, lateral and vertical movement, whip movements, angle changes, and final position. Do not alter the camera path to accommodate the macaque.

The camera drives the relationship; the macaque’s head reacts to the camera. At every frame, orient the macaque’s face along the direction vector from the head to the camera, so the facial centerline points directly toward the lens. Maintain continuous spatial continuity and physically coherent foreground, midground, and background parallax.

Style
ARRI Alexa 35 cinematic naturalism: soft overcast winter illumination, cool natural color, realistic damp fur, detailed falling snow, hot-spring steam, natural reflections, and atmospheric depth.

Constraints
The shot must be exactly ${duration:8 seconds}. Let video_1 determine all camera choreography and movement timing; do not impose separate timestamped action phases.

Highest-priority constraint: the head-to-camera lock must never break. The macaque’s head must face the camera lens on every frame from beginning to end, regardless of camera speed, direction, angle, or position. The camera position is the permanent look-at target for the head. Keep the eyes open and looking directly into the lens at all times.

No looking past the camera, fixed forward-facing head, delayed head turn, head lag, anticipation, overshoot, undershoot, gaze drift, missed tracking during whip movements, or temporary loss of eye contact. Keep the body absolutely stationary, with no torso rotation or body tracking. Only the head and neck may follow the camera. If exact head-to-camera orientation conflicts with natural head inertia, prioritize exact orientation.

Preserve subject identity, anatomy, scene structure, stable lighting direction, and coherent shadows. No morphing, cuts, teleportation, text, logos, distortion, facial deformation, duplicated anatomy, flicker, jitter, tracking artifacts, or frame warping.