Hogsmeade Hollow — Animated Pixel-Art Harry Potter Diorama

The scene

A castle with two tower cones and a steep slate roof sits on a wet islet over a black lake. Three tall windows burn gold, an arched gate glows amber, carved pumpkin lanterns swing on a string above a hearth, and a cat sits close to the fire.

It is the same brief every time — one rainy night, one fire, one set of glowing windows — with the world swapped out underneath: Harry Potter (wizarding fantasy).

What moves in it

Rain falls in three depths with splashes where it lands. Smoke drifts sideways off the chimney, sparks arc up from the hearth and die, pumpkin lanterns swing and lay their glow on the wet ground, and the firelight flickers across the castle wall. A waterfall pours off the headland into the lake under the moon, and every warm source lays a shivering reflection down the water.

The prompt it came from

The scene is generated end to end from a single written brief. This is the exact prompt, unchanged across the whole shelf:

Make me an animated pixel-art Halloween diorama, built to be the looping cover for a 10-hour lofi music video. Build the palette on strong warm/cold contrast: a cold, rainy night against warm pockets of firelight and glowing windows. Bring it to life with great effects: rain, fire sparks, drifting smoke and flickering light. It should look crisp full-screen at 1080p and loop smoothly for hours.

How it loops

The scene is drawn on a 320×180 buffer and scaled up by whole pixels — 6× fills 1080p exactly, so it stays crisp full screen. Every animated system (rain in three depths, splashes, drifting smoke, fire sparks, the flicker of firelight on the walls, swinging lights, ripples) is periodic over one 30-second cycle, so the frame returns to itself exactly and the loop can run for hours with no seam.

Play

Open it full screen and leave it running. Click or press F for fullscreen, T to hide the wordmark.

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中文简介

同一份 prompt（一个雨夜、一堆篝火、一扇发光的窗），把世界换成 Harry Potter。320×180 绘制、整像素放大到 1080p，30 秒一个循环且逐像素闭合，可以整夜不间断播放。