MiniMax H3 Paper-Craft Epic: Rasputin in Fifteen Seconds

The story of Rasputin told in 15s with Paper Epics

made with H3 and the JSON prompt below 👇

{
  "archetype": "Cinematic Narrative",
  "duration": "15s",
  "prompt": {
    "concept": {
      "title": "RASPUTIN",
      "description": "15-second pure motion-graphics summary of the life and death of Rasputin told in exactly four visual acts. No voice-over. Everything is built from tactile paper cut-outs, cardboard, ink silhouettes and layered collage. Transitions between the four acts are hard stop-motion style jumps: elements are abruptly repositioned frame-by-frame as if moved by hand.",
      "duration": "15-second continuous paper cut-out sequence"
    },
    "camera_direction": {
      "shot_type": "Mostly locked wide with occasional slow lateral drifts",
      "forbidden": ["No smooth cinematic camera moves", "No morphing transitions", "No dissolves", "No fancy digital effects"],
      "camera_journey": "Starts locked on a dark Siberian landscape. Between each act the frame freezes and the entire composition jumps in hard stop-motion steps to the next configuration. Final act ends on a static wide of the icy river at night."
    },
    "visual_style": {
      "overall": "Tactile stop-motion paper theater — everything feels hand-cut and physically moved",
      "inspired_by": [
        "Classic stop-motion cut-out animation",
        "Paper collage historical drama",
        "Graphic novel dark biography sequences rendered in physical materials"
      ],
      "color_palette": [
        "Deep frozen blues and charcoal blacks",
        "Faded imperial gold and blood red",
        "Sickly candlelight yellows",
        "Icy white for the river"
      ],
      "materials_and_texture": "Torn paper edges, visible cardboard corrugation, thick ink silhouettes, layered overlapping cut-outs, soft paper shadows, slight hand-made imperfections, fine film grain"
    },
    "storyboard": {
      "total_beats": 4,
      "beats": [
        {
          "id": "01",
          "time": "0.0–3.5s",
          "description": "Wide shot of a dark, frozen Siberian landscape. A tall, wild-haired silhouette (Rasputin) walks out of the snow in stepped frames. Hard cut to a luxurious palace interior: the same figure stands over a small sick child. The child’s paper form brightens slightly as Rasputin raises his hands."
        },
        {
          "id": "02",
          "time": "3.5–7.5s",
          "description": "Hard stop-motion jump. Rasputin is now at the center of the imperial court. Elegant aristocratic silhouettes surround him, some bowing, some recoiling. He grows larger in the frame. Wine glasses, food and shadowy excess appear around him in abrupt layers. His power is absolute."
        },
        {
          "id": "03",
          "time": "7.5–11.5s",
          "description": "Hard stop-motion jump. A group of dark aristocratic figures plot in a corner. They lure the Rasputin silhouette into a private room. A glass of poisoned wine is offered. He drinks. Nothing happens. A revolver appears. Multiple shots are fired in sharp, single-frame bursts. He still stands."
        },
        {
          "id": "04",
          "time": "11.5–15.0s",
          "description": "Hard stop-motion jump to a frozen river at night. The battered Rasputin silhouette is dragged and thrown into the icy water in three heavy frames. The water closes over him. Final static hold: the dark surface of the river under a cold moon, a few paper ripples remaining."
        }
      ]
    },
    "negative_prompt": [
      "No voice-over or narration",
      "No smooth animation or fluid motion",
      "No morphing or dissolving transitions",
      "No photorealistic humans or 3D characters",
      "No modern digital effects",
      "No extra text or subtitles",
      "No logos or watermarks",
      "No camera shake",
      "No continuous camera movement across acts"
    ]
  }
}

Hope you enjoy it along with these 5 templates for motion graphics! 🫡