The Smoke Break
Find an accomplice
Prompt 1
THE SMOKE BREAK · PART 1 OF 2 · FORMAT & REFERENCES FORMAT: same duration and aspect ratio as @Video 1 / two-lead replacement / one continuous handheld shot, keep original timing REFERENCES: @Video 1 is the camera, timing, composition and motion-capture master. It is uploaded muted. Treat it as a motion-capture track. It contains two LEADS: the LEAD IN THE WHITE NIKE TRACK JACKET — the black cat who dances, lights the cigarette, opens the jacket and blows out the smoke — and the OPENER IN THE LIGHT BLUE PUFFER VEST — the orange-and-white cat who dances at the very start. Each new lead's body follows the lead it replaces pose-for-pose, frame by frame: the same head position in frame, the same shoulder line, the same elbow angle, the same hand position, the same knee bend and foot placement, at the exact same moment, speed and direction. Keep everything else exactly as it is: the same continuous handheld camera move, framing and distance, the same rooftop with its metal railing, chimneys and tiled edges, the same city view at dusk, the same people around them and everything they do, the same light, grain and color grading. Do not inherit the two original cats' heads, fur, eyes or paws. @Image 1 defines ONLY the new LEAD IN THE WHITE NIKE TRACK JACKET. It can be a person, a cat, a dog or any animal. Preserve this subject's face, eyes, eye condition, hair or fur color, fur pattern, ear shape, nose, skin or fur texture and any unique features — a different or cloudy eye, a scar, a mole, a missing ear tip, special markings — exactly as shown in @Image 1. Do not inherit the background, floor, furniture, lighting or clothes from @Image 1. [optional: short description of your lead, and any unique feature with its exact side, e.g. "black cat, the cat's LEFT eye is cloudy and blind"] @Image 2 defines ONLY the new OPENER IN THE LIGHT BLUE PUFFER VEST. It can be a person, a cat, a dog or any animal. Preserve this subject's face, eyes, eye condition, hair or fur color, fur pattern, ear shape, nose, skin or fur texture and any unique features exactly as shown in @Image 2. Do not inherit the background, floor, furniture, lighting or clothes from @Image 2. [optional: short description of your opener, and any unique feature with its exact side]
Tutorial
DENIZ AKKABAK · SWAP TUTORIAL · @DENIZ.AKKABAK
The Smoke Break
How to put anyone — you, a friend, a cat or a dog — into the lead of a one-take rooftop dance, down to the cigarette, the unzip and the smoke.
A TUTORIAL BY DENIZ AKKABAK · @DENIZ.AKKABAK
PIPELINE SEEDANCE 2.5 FORMAT MATCHES THE REFERENCE GENRE MUSIC-VIDEO SWAP
Twenty-eight seconds, one handheld take, no cuts to hide behind. The lead dances, walks off, lights a cigarette, unzips his jacket and blows the smoke straight at the lens — and every one of those beats has to land on the same frame as the original. Getting Lil Rıfkı through it took three fixes: bodies with human proportions so the arms could actually reach, paws that stay paws even when they hold a lighter, and the cigarette written out as a numbered sequence the model can’t skip. All three are baked into this prompt, and it no longer cares whether your lead is a person or a pet.
THE PIPELINE AT A GLANCE
- 01
Get the reference
Download the reference video from the prompt’s page on lootprompt.com and make sure it’s silent. This file is your @Video 1.
- 02
Cast your leads
Two photos, two roles. @Image 1 is the lead in the white track jacket, @Image 2 is the opener in the blue vest. People or animals.
- 03
Generate
Attach all three in order, paste both parts of the prompt, match duration and aspect ratio to the reference, render once.
STEP 01 — LOOTPROMPT.COM
Download the Reference — It Is Your @Video 1
The prompt never describes a single dance move. It points at @Video 1 and says follow it frame by frame — every swing, every spin, every step of the cigarette sequence, the whole handheld camera path. Without the reference attached as a real file, there is nothing to follow.
Open this prompt’s page on lootprompt.com and hit Download under the video — that’s the reference, ready to use. You can also save the reel from my Instagram post (@deniz.akkabak). It goes into the references as @Video 1. Lil Rıfkı and MC Feyyaz are in it, and that’s exactly right: the prompt keeps their moves and throws away their faces. The rest of the crew stays as it is.
@VIDEO 1 — THE REFERENCE, THREE MOMENTS
STEP 02 — AUDIO OFF
Make Sure It’s Silent — or Seedance Won’t Render
A music video carries a copyrighted track, and Seedance checks the audio of every reference you attach — a copyrighted song gets the generation blocked before a single frame is made. If your file has any sound on it, strip it before uploading. The rhythm lives in the movement, not the audio.
AUDIO CHECK — BEFORE YOU UPLOAD
Mute the clip and export a new file. On iPhone: Photos → Edit → tap the speaker icon so it’s crossed out → Done. In CapCut or any editor: mute the clip, export.
Attach the silent file, not the original. Same length, same frames — only the audio track is gone.
Add the music at the end. The render comes out silent — lay your track back in the edit, or pick a song when you post.
STEP 03 — CASTING
Cast Your Leads — People or Pets
Two photos, two roles, and the order is the casting. @Image 1 takes the lead: the dance, the cigarette, the unzip, the smoke. @Image 2 takes the opener: the first seconds of the video in the blue puffer vest. Each slot takes a person, a cat, a dog — anything with a face. Mix them if you like: you in the lead, your dog opening the show.
Pick photos the way a casting director would: one subject per photo, face toward the camera, both eyes visible, good light, head and shoulders in frame. For people, a clear front-facing portrait works best. Use a photo of yourself, or of someone who’s happy to be in the video.
REFERENCE INPUTS — THE LEADS IN THIS VERSION
Name one-sided features from the subject’s point of view. Lil Rıfkı is blind in his left eye, and a one-take dance is nothing but head turns and spins — the exact moments a model mirrors a face. If your lead has anything one-sided — an eye, a scar, a mole, a folded ear, a patch — fill in the [optional] line with the side as the subject sees it: “the cat’s LEFT eye is cloudy and blind.” Nothing to add? Delete the bracket lines.
STEP 04 — SEEDANCE
Generate — One Prompt, Three References
Open Seedance in reference-to-video mode. Attach the three files in exactly this order, set the duration and aspect ratio to match the reference, paste both parts of the prompt one after another, and render.
REFERENCE INPUTS — ATTACH IN THIS ORDER
- 01
@Video 1
The silent reference. Camera path, moves, the cigarette sequence, the rooftop and the crew.
- 02
@Image 1
Your lead — white track jacket, cigarette, unzip.
- 03
@Image 2
Your opener — blue puffer vest, the first seconds.
Prompt 1
THE SMOKE BREAK · PART 1 OF 2 · FORMAT & REFERENCES
same duration and aspect ratio as @Video 1 / two-lead replacement / one continuous handheld shot, keep original timing
@Video 1 is the camera, timing, composition and motion-capture master. It is uploaded muted. Treat it as a motion-capture track. It contains two LEADS: the LEAD IN THE WHITE NIKE TRACK JACKET — the black cat who dances, lights the cigarette, opens the jacket and blows out the smoke — and the OPENER IN THE LIGHT BLUE PUFFER VEST — the orange-and-white cat who dances at the very start. Each new lead's body follows the lead it replaces pose-for-pose, frame by frame: the same head position in frame, the same shoulder line, the same elbow angle, the same hand position, the same knee bend and foot placement, at the exact same moment, speed and direction. Keep everything else exactly as it is: the same continuous handheld camera move, framing and distance, the same rooftop with its metal railing, chimneys and tiled edges, the same city view at dusk, the same people around them and everything they do, the same light, grain and color grading. Do not inherit the two original cats' heads, fur, eyes or paws. @Image 1 defines ONLY the new LEAD IN THE WHITE NIKE TRACK JACKET. It can be a person, a cat, a dog or any animal. Preserve this subject's face, eyes, eye condition, hair or fur color, fur pattern, ear shape, nose, skin or fur texture and any unique features — a different or cloudy eye, a scar, a mole, a missing ear tip, special markings — exactly as shown in @Image 1. Do not inherit the background, floor, furniture, lighting or clothes from @Image 1. [optional: short description of your lead, and any unique feature with its exact side, e.g. "black cat, the cat's LEFT eye is cloudy and blind"] @Image 2 defines ONLY the new OPENER IN THE LIGHT BLUE PUFFER VEST. It can be a person, a cat, a dog or any animal. Preserve this subject's face, eyes, eye condition, hair or fur color, fur pattern, ear shape, nose, skin or fur texture and any unique features exactly as shown in @Image 2. Do not inherit the background, floor, furniture, lighting or clothes from @Image 2. [optional: short description of your opener, and any unique feature with its exact side]
PROMPT — PART 2, PASTE DIRECTLY AFTER PART 1
THE SMOKE BREAK · PART 2 OF 2 · BODIES, WARDROBE, THE CIGARETTE & LOCKS
BODIES AND HANDS:
If a lead is a person, it is that person with a natural human body, human hands and a natural face, at the same height and build as the lead in @Video 1.
If a lead is an animal, it is an anthropomorphic version of that animal with the SAME HUMAN BODY PROPORTIONS as the lead in @Video 1 — the same height, the same long arms and legs, the same shoulder width — with that animal's real head, full fur and real paws. A paw can move, point, open, wrap and grip like a hand, but it always keeps animal anatomy: a rounded fur-covered paw with short round toes and toe beans, no long fingers, no knuckles, no fingernails, no bare skin, covered in the same fur color as the animal's body. When a paw grips something, the short toes curl around it and the fur stays on.
WARDROBE:
The new lead wears the white Nike track jacket and black track pants with white side stripes, closed until the unzip in the CIGARETTE MOMENT and wide open after it.
The new opener wears the light blue puffer vest over grey sleeves.
CIGARETTE MOMENT — the new lead performs this complete sequence exactly as the lead in @Video 1 does, at the same moments, in this order, nothing skipped:
1. It walks away from the camera with its back turned, then turns around toward the lens.
2. It picks up a cigarette and places it between its lips.
3. It cups both hands or paws around its mouth and lights the cigarette with a lighter; a small flame flickers and the tip starts to glow orange.
4. With the cigarette in its mouth, it walks toward the camera.
5. It unzips the white track jacket and pulls both sides wide open, revealing its chest — the subject's own natural chest: bare human chest if a person, the animal's own fur if an animal, matching the rest of its body.
6. It takes a long drag, lifts the cigarette from its lips and blows out a big visible cloud of white smoke that catches the dusk light.
7. With the jacket open, it goes back into the dance with the same moves as the lead in @Video 1.
VIDEO PROMPT:
Recreate @Video 1 with only the two leads replaced. The new opener copies every move of the original opener at the start 1:1. The new lead copies every arm swing, point, shoulder hit, spin, lunge, head bob and step of the original lead 1:1, with the same limb, the same reach and the same power; the motion comes entirely from @Video 1, nothing invented, softened or simplified. The CIGARETTE MOMENT is the key beat and is performed completely and clearly. Everyone else on the rooftop stays exactly as in @Video 1. Any unique facial feature of a lead stays on the correct side of the face in every head turn and spin, exactly as in its reference image, never mirrored. The dusk light rims the leads, their clothes and the smoke the same way it lit the originals. Photorealistic, natural faces, real fur physics where there is fur, believable balance, raw handheld music-video energy.
Camera lock: frame-by-frame copy of @Video 1 — the same continuous handheld path, the same shake, the same whip moves and close passes, the same speed and duration. No cuts, no stabilization, no slow motion, nothing shortened or extended.
AUDIO: silent. No music, no voices, no sound effects.
CONSISTENCY: The @Image 1 subject is always the lead in the white Nike track jacket; the @Image 2 subject is always the opener in the light blue puffer vest; they never swap roles or clothes. Same identities from first frame to last. Unique features present on the correct side whenever the face is visible. Everyone else, the rooftop, the city view, the light, the camera and the timing identical to @Video 1.
NEGATIVE PROMPT: no original black cat, no original orange-and-white cat, no swapped roles, no swapped clothes, no identity change, no species change, no mirrored face, no eye change, no missing or moved unique features, no human hands on an animal lead, no long fingers on paws, no fingernails on paws, no bare skin on paws, no hands switching between paw and human hand, no short animal arms, no four-legged walking, no move different from @Video 1, no simplified or softened moves, no wrong arm on a move, no skipped cigarette pickup, no missing flame, no unlit cigarette, no missing smoke exhale, no jacket that stays closed, no jacket closing again after the unzip, no changes to the other people, no cuts, no stabilized camera, no slow motion, no shortened or missing moments, no change to the rooftop or city view, no daylight, no flicker, no cartoon, no cheap CGI, no on-screen text, no watermark.
STEP 05
Anatomy — Why It Holds Together
- 01
Motion capture, two leads only
@Video 1 is a “motion-capture track” with “two LEADS,” named by wardrobe and job. Everything else — “the same people around them and everything they do” — is locked as it is, so the model spends all its attention on two bodies instead of a crowd.
- 02
Silhouette over silhouette
“The same head position in frame, the same shoulder line, the same elbow angle.” Naming the body parts one by one is what turns “dance like this” into an exact copy.
- 03
Human proportions for animals
“The SAME HUMAN BODY PROPORTIONS … the same long arms and legs.” A real cat’s front legs can’t reach where a man’s arms go; this line is the fix that made the moves finally match.
- 04
Paws that stay paws
“A paw can move, point, open, wrap and grip like a hand, but it always keeps animal anatomy.” Without it, paws drift into human hands every time they hold something — exactly when the camera is closest.
- 05
The numbered beat
The CIGARETTE MOMENT is written as seven numbered steps with “nothing skipped.” Models happily compress a long action; a numbered list makes every step a checkpoint.
- 06
One prompt, any subject
“It can be a person, a cat, a dog or any animal,” and BODIES AND HANDS branches cleanly: natural human body for people, human-proportioned animal for pets. Step 5 even handles the chest either way.
- 07
The camera lock and the insurance
“The same continuous handheld path, the same shake … No cuts, no stabilization.” The NEGATIVE list closes the rest: “no skipped cigarette pickup,” “no hands switching between paw and human hand,” “no changes to the other people.”
THE RESULT
Output — Lil Rıfkı, Rooftop Session
Check yours against the reference moment by moment: the opener hits the same first moves, the lead’s arms reach the same points on the same beats, the cigarette is picked up, lit with a visible flame, the jacket opens and stays open, the smoke comes out big and clear, and the rest of the rooftop hasn’t changed. If a pet lead’s hands turn human in a close-up, don’t rewrite the prompt — push the PAWS lines harder in the optional description. If the moves drift, cut the reference where someone passes close to the lens and render the halves separately; the pass hides the join.
ONE ROOFTOP. ONE TAKE. ONE SMOKE BREAK.
Attitude is choreography. Borrow the moves, bring your own face.
Swap the rooftop for any one-take performance — a dance circle, a walk-out, a stage entrance — and swap the photos for whoever you want in the lead: yourself, your best friend, your dog. The skeleton carries all of it: one muted reference treated as motion capture, one image per role, a rule for bodies and hands that works for people and animals alike, and a numbered beat for the one moment that has to land.
WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PROMPTED BY DENIZ AKKABAK · @DENIZ.AKKABAK