Shire Hollow — Animated Pixel-Art Middle-earth Diorama

The scene

A hobbit hole is cut into a green hill: a round door glows warm, two round windows answer it, and a chimney pipe leans out of the grass. A stone mill turns its wheel in the river beside it, and fairy lights strung along a garden fence mark the path down 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: Middle-earth (high fantasy).

What moves in it

The mill wheel turns and throws spray into the race. Fairy lights twinkle one by one along the fence, the round door breathes warm light onto the grass, and rain, splashes, smoke and the campfire flicker all run on the same thirty-second clock.

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 Middle-earth。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。