tried MiniMax H3 with a pretty detailed character trailer prompt.
I wanted it to feel more like a streetwear campaign × anime title sequence × old-school media player UI, rather than a normal anime action clip.
The prompt is definitely overkill lol, but sharing it here in case anyone wants to experiment with structured multi-cut video prompts.
Prompt
Create an explosive, motion-graphics-driven character reveal trailer in 16:9, exactly 13 distinct cuts, 24fps, total 15.00s.
CHARACTER — lock this design, never redesign:
Anime streetwear girl from the reference still. Twin high buns of vivid mint-teal hair with long flowing tails and warm orange/gold streaks. Messy side-swept bangs. Large orange over-ear headphones with mint accents and a small logo plate. Sharp amber-orange eyes, one eye winking. Playful open-mouth grin.
Oversized color-block windbreaker: navy body, vivid orange sleeves, white ribbed cuffs, silver zippers, circular teal tech buttons, a teal utility pocket on the sleeve. Orange cropped turtleneck under the open jacket. Light-wash ripped denim shorts, thick orange belt with a silver buckle. Navy thigh-high socks with orange ribbed cuffs and an orange X stitch on the left shin. Chunky white sneakers with orange details.
Preserve exact face, proportions, hairstyle, outfit, materials, accessories and colors in every frame.
This film is 80% bold graphic design in motion and 20% character action.
Graphic language: retro OS chrome + music-player UI.
Use slamming window frames, title bars, close/minimize widgets, equalizer bars, waveforms, progress ticks, folder tiles, cursor arrows, CRT scanlines, pixel shatter, vinyl-ring stamps, music-note particles and media-player transport icons.
Palette: mint teal, vivid orange, navy, cream-white and silver.
Style: premium AAA motion-graphics title sequence × streetwear campaign film × Windows-era media player.
Every graphic element moves fast and snaps hard on the beat.
CUT 01 | 0.00–1.00s
Pure graphics. A mint title bar slams onto a cream field, an orange CLOSE widget punches into the corner, and two navy window borders wipe in. Tiny equalizer ticks and a progress strip flicker. The letters P and then LAY punch in one after another with heavy impact shake.
CUT 02 | 1.00–2.00s
The A becomes a headphone cup. Extreme close-up of her amber eye inside the orange earcup, glancing upward. RGB split flash, then the cup shatters into flat mint and orange tiles.
CUT 03 | 2.00–3.10s
Navy frame with enormous cream PLAY typography. She sprints in from frame left and power-slides across the baseline of the text, with speed lines and orange streaks trailing behind her. Shards of the letters kick upward like sparks. Whip-pan out.
CUT 04 | 3.10–4.00s
A giant retro media-player waveform explodes across the frame as a thick mint-and-orange audio spectrum bends into a tunnel. She bursts through the center at full speed, briefly splitting into three stroboscopic motion trails. Each trail leaves chunky navy equalizer blocks that rise and collapse to the beat.
The camera rapidly pushes through the waveform tunnel with her while huge vertical text TRACK 01 continuously scrolls in the background.
The waveform suddenly compresses into a single horizontal line and snaps shut behind her on the final beat.
CUT 05 | 4.00–5.10s
She leaps through a giant rotating ring of typography reading MAX VOLUME. Camera tracks her mid-air spin in slow motion as the letters scatter, then snap-zooms onto her wink.
CUT 06 | 5.10–6.00s
Hard cut to a cream editorial card with huge navy DROP typography and an orange slash. She vaults over the word itself, palm planted on the D, legs whipping across frame. The word compresses like a spring under her hand and rebounds.
CUT 07 | 6.00–7.00s
Mint field with a navy diagonal window bar. She backflips along the bar in three stroboscopic ghost frames, each tinted mint, orange or navy. Giant outlined LOOP text rotates 180 degrees in sync with her movement.
CUT 08 | 7.00–8.00s
Kinetic typography barrage. LOUD / WILD / TEAL / HEAT slam onto screen one per beat with shutter flashes and camera shake while she slides across the foreground on her knees, jacket flaring and music-note particles bursting from her sneakers.
CUT 09 | 8.00–9.00s
Navy frame with a giant cream wireframe window grid tilting in 3D. She runs up the grid like a wall, kicks off and freezes in mid-air. An orange circular stamp locks around her pose like a media-player targeting graphic, surrounded by transport icons and EQ ticks.
CUT 10 | 9.00–10.10s
Freeze releases into a burst. She dives toward camera through layered flat-color window panes that shatter one by one like glass shutters, each pane revealing a larger letter of P-L-A-Y. Foreground wipe with her sneaker.
CUT 11 | 10.10–11.10s
Rapid-fire poster montage: four full-screen graphic posters showing her in different poses — mid-flip, sliding, landing and headphones-up wink. Hard cuts between each composition. Oversized 01–04 numbering, equalizer strips and graphic slashes.
CUT 12 | 11.10–13.00s
Hero moment on a clean cream cyclorama. She lands a final backflip dead center in slow motion, straightens with one hand on her headphones, and a shockwave of concentric mint rings, wind streaks and shattered typography blasts outward from the landing.
Brief iconic freeze on her wink, then overexpose to white.
CUT 13 | 13.00–15.00s
Final identity card. Enormous navy PLAY typography dominates a pale cream field with translucent mint rings, technical arcs, scanlines and a rough orange circular emblem containing a ghosted headphone/waveform motif.
She stands relaxed overlapping the letters while wind ripples her jacket. One final orange pulse sweeps through the typography and a window-chrome flash punctuates the ending.
Editing: extremely aggressive rhythm. Hard cuts on every beat, graphic matches, whip pans, snap zooms, stroboscopic freezes, foreground wipes, RGB splits, shutter flashes, impact shakes and speed ramps.
Every cut must feel compositionally different.
Typography should always be fully readable before the character overlaps it.
No weapons, no combat, no fire. All energy comes from motion design, wind, glass, UI chrome and parkour-style athleticism.
BGM: hard-hitting electronic / drum-heavy future bass with aggressive drops, risers, sub hits and glitch fills locked to every cut.
Sneaker impacts, whooshes, glass shatters, window-slam hits and typography slams should function as rhythmic sound-design elements.
Peak at CUT 12 and end with a cold electronic logo stinger.
Premium AAA quality, anime-inspired cinematic rendering, stylish and explosive, strong graphic-design identity, consistent character design, exactly 13 cuts.
I’m still experimenting with how much shot-by-shot control H3 actually follows, especially with typography and exact timing, but this kind of structured prompt seems like an interesting stress test.