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Style frames

Before anything moved, I made one photoreal still per shot to lock the bottle, the actor and the light. Runway animated these, not the sketches, so pencil texture never leaked into the footage.

Frames5

ReferencesBottle · Actor

ToolsRunway · Photoshop

Year2026

Step 1

Lock the references

AI changes things every time you ask. So I approved one bottle and one face, and attached them to every request after that.

The locked AUREL bottle master: clear glass, gold screw cap and gold label — LockedThe bottle. Four rounds to get here.

The locked actor reference: a woman in her 30s in a linen shirt by a window — LockedThe actor. One approved face for every shot.

Step 2

From board to frame

Each storyboard became a realistic still with the same framing. These are what Runway animated.

Storyboard of the bottle on a café table in the rain — StoryboardShot 1 · The rainy city

Style frame: the AUREL bottle on a wet stone table as a blue tram passes — Style frameShot 1 · The rainy city

Storyboard of a hand on the bottle in an Alpine village — StoryboardShot 2 · The swap

Style frame: a hand on the bottle cap on a sunny stone wall in a village — Style frameShot 2 · The swap

Storyboard of the woman drinking with mountains behind — StoryboardShot 4 · The sip

Style frame: the woman drinks from the bottle in front of snowy mountains — Style frameShot 4 · The sip

Step 3

The source

The ending: the bottle back where it came from.

Style frame: the bottle on white rocks beside a clear mountain spring — The spring, where the camera pans up to the sky.

Explored

An alternate transition

Another way into the Alps I tried: the bottle on a sunny window ledge above the rooftops.

Style frame: the AUREL bottle on a sunlit window ledge above city rooftops — AlternateWindow ledge over the rooftops.