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Add a creature with a reference image

Add AI VFX to Real Footage

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Add a creature with a reference image

<<<video_1>>>: Original clip — young man with curly dark hair and a moustache, rings on his fingers, wearing an open light grey pinstriped short-sleeve shirt over a black tee, standing in a sunlit rooftop parking lot in Almaty, gesturing and talking directly to camera; behind him the beige Hotel Kazakhstan tower with its crown-shaped top, a Soviet apartment block at left, parked cars and green trees, low handheld angle with a slow push-in, warm low-sun daylight. Preserve the man's identity, face, moustache, wardrobe, rings, performance and exact lip-sync, plus the framing, lens character and handheld motion of the original take exactly. Change only the background behind him: add many large reptiles climbing the hotel tower, and prepend a 1-second telephoto opening that snaps out to the original composition. <<<c948711f-7529-43e5-979b-feb727a46a31>>>: Reference of a real large monitor lizard — pebbled scaly skin, long claws, heavy tail, true reptile anatomy. Appearance, scale-texture and color reference only; ignore the photo's background and lighting, do not use it for the environment. Photoreal. 16:9. 8s. Warm low-sun evening daylight, soft long shadows, gentle film grain — grade matched to the source plate. NON-IP — generic large monitor lizards, not based on any brand or character. SFX and source dialogue only. One continuous shot, no cuts. For the first 1 second hold on a long telephoto lens (~300mm look, compressed perspective) framed tight on the upper facade of the beige Hotel Kazakhstan tower: dozens of large photoreal monitor lizards, each roughly car-sized, swarming up the building en masse — claws hooking window ledges and concrete, heavy tails dragging, pebbled scales catching the low sun, bodies overlapping as they crawl higher, real soft-edged contact shadows on the facade. At the 1-second mark the camera snaps a hard, fast zoom-out / quick pull-back, decompressing perspective and craning down to land exactly on the source composition — a 100% match of the original framing: the low handheld angle with the man in the foreground, tower behind, same headroom and horizon. From 1 second onward play the man's preserved take: he speaks directly to camera, lips matching the source exactly, saying clearly: \"I can put something behind me that definitely shouldn't be there. Insane right?\" — keep his performance, gestures, timing and lip-sync precisely as in the source, smiling and completely unfazed and oblivious to the creatures, while the source's own slow handheld push-in continues. Behind him the lizards keep steadily climbing the tower for the rest of the shot, more of them crawling into frame on the facade. Keep the lizards integrated into the plate: same warm key from screen-right and same color temperature as the man, real contact shadows where claws grip, matching atmospheric haze and depth of field so they sit at true distance, fully photoreal real scale detail and true reptile anatomy, never CG, plastic or cartoonish. Lock-down: the man's face, identity, moustache, wardrobe, rings, expression, gestures and lip-sync are unchanged; from 1s onward the framing, lens and handheld push-in are a 100% exact match of the source — only the lizards on the tower are added. SFX and source dialogue only: open with a quick burst of distant claw scrapes and scuffs on concrete and glass and scattered low reptilian hisses over faint city ambience; at the 1s zoom-out the man's preserved voice comes in and stays dominant — \"I can put something behind me that definitely shouldn't be there. Insane right?\" — the scrapes and hisses continuing softly underneath, a low structural rumble far in the background.
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