Sora 2 Prompt Examples

A glass of iced tea tips over on a wooden picnic table in slow motion. As it falls, the ice cubes tumble out first, bouncing once before sliding; the liquid follows in a sheet, splashing against a folded newspaper whose pages darken as they absorb it. Sunlight refracts through the falling glass, throwing caustic patterns across the table.

A demolition ball swings into an old brick chimney. On impact, the bricks nearest the strike shatter and blow outward while the upper section hesitates, tilts, then collapses straight down through its own dust cloud. Pigeons scatter from the roofline a half-second before the impact, and the dust drifts left on a light wind.

A candle burns at the center of a dark room as a window blows open. The flame leans hard away from the gust, guttering almost to blue, then recovers and steadies as the curtain falls back. Wax that pooled at the rim spills over and streaks down the candle's side, hardening as it goes.

A busy Tokyo pedestrian crossing at night in the rain. Dozens of umbrellas move in interleaving streams without colliding; their surfaces catch the color of each neon sign they pass under, shifting from pink to cyan. A cyclist waits at the curb, one foot down, raindrops gathering and dropping off his brake lever. The camera crosses with the crowd at walking height.

Inside a watchmaker's workshop, a magnified view of a mechanical watch being assembled. Tweezers place a gear no larger than a grain of rice onto its post; it settles with a barely visible wobble, then meshes with its neighbor as the escapement begins to tick. Each tick sends a tiny synchronized twitch through the gear train.

A chef flips a crêpe in a small kitchen. The batter disc rises, rotating one and a half times, its edge flexing in the air; it lands slightly off-center, and the chef nudges the pan to recenter it. Butter at the pan's edge foams and browns, and steam curls up through a shaft of window light.

A lighthouse beam sweeps across a foggy bay at night. Where the beam passes, the fog becomes a bright rotating cone filled with drifting droplets; where it has passed, darkness closes back in. A small fishing boat appears in silhouette for exactly the moment the beam crosses it, then vanishes again.

Morning sun rises over a frost-covered meadow. As the light advances across the grass, the frost melts in a moving line: crystals sparkle, then bead into droplets that slide down each blade, bending them slightly. A spider web strung between two stalks sags progressively as its frost turns to water.

A subway car emerges from a tunnel onto an elevated track at sunset. The interior lighting fades against the sudden orange flood; passengers' faces turn warm and shadows swing across the car as it curves. Windows flare with lens streaks, then settle as the train straightens out.

A paper boat sails across a puddle that reflects a full-size ocean sky. When a real raindrop lands, it creates a wave that, at the boat's scale, is enormous: the boat climbs the swell, its paper hull darkening at the waterline, and crests just before the wave collapses into ripples.

A lone astronaut discovers a glowing cave on Mars. Her headlamp beam mixes with the cave's own bioluminescent blue; every bootstep dislodges fine red dust that falls slower than Earth gravity would allow, drifting sideways in the thin air. Her breath fogs the inside of her visor in rhythm with the suit's audible respirator.

In a library after closing, books lift from the shelves one by one and fly in a slow orbit around the reading lamps. Their pages fan open, and loose bookmarks flutter down like leaves, landing in a growing pile on the central table. The lamps dim slightly each time a book passes through their light.