Clockmaker repairs a sleeping automaton
- Model Anima
- Portrait 2:3
- 1024 × 1536 · XL
- 8 steps
- Max quality
- iPhoneiPadMac
Prompt and Settings
An elderly clockmaker with rolled sleeves repairs a sleeping brass automaton bird, fitting a gear with tweezers, in a narrow workshop packed with drawers, springs, oil lamps, velvet trays, and dust motes, portrait 2:3 view over the workbench with close foreground tools, low lamp light pooling on metal, hand-drawn illustration with sepia ink, muted gouache, precise mechanical shapes, worn wood grain, and gentle storybook atmosphere.
- Seed
- 385097197
- Steps
- 8
- Quality
- Max
- Size
- 1024 × 1536
- Made With
- Private Diffusion on a Mac with Apple Silicon
Why This Prompt Works
The repair gesture gives the scene a precise action, while the automaton bird provides a distinct subject for Anima to interpret. The over-the-workbench view carries the vertical composition by layering tools in front, hands in the middle, and workshop drawers behind. Low lamp light pooling on metal defines the glow, and the sepia ink, muted gouache, and worn wood details guide the model toward a crafted illustration style.
Recreate It in Private Diffusion
- Paste the prompt into Studio and choose Anima.
- Set Size to XL and Aspect Ratio to Portrait 2:3.
- Type 385097197 into Seed. On a Mac, switch off Randomize first.
- Set Steps to 8.
- Switch on Max quality (slower).
Those are the settings that made this picture, and they run on your own iPad or Mac with 16 GB or more, with nothing uploaded.












