This atmospheric dark fantasy artwork depicts a worried astrological witch in a star embroidered robe and pointed hat, standing in a shadowy dark autumn forest. A towering, menacing antlered forest entity with glowing red eyes looms behind her, while a fiery red solar eclipse glows in the sky above next to a glowing crystal ball on a rune carved stone pedestal. The scene uses deep moody tones of burgundy, dark purple, and black, with a tense, foreboding mystical horror atmosphere.

Startled celestial witch looks back over her shoulder — AI video by @CaylaCatz

@CaylaCatz · 10/11/2026

Entry in the Haunted Halloween Chronicles theme on BudgetPixel.

Escaping your fate is not easy : Take Two : Good thing she is a roller derby renegade. You never know what skills you're going to need in a getaway! Whatever was behind her is a lot less scary than what's in front of her, lol. I'm working on improving my video prompts. Let me know what you think on this one. Took a few tries/corrections. No editing on a video editor, just a 10-second Muse roll including sound so it's all in the prompt. I found out I had to list every action change because things kept going wrong. the hat still disappeared but at least she is skating the right way so I'll take that as a win. My start image https://budgetpixel.com/p/92008

This atmospheric dark fantasy artwork depicts a worried astrological witch in a star embroidered robe and pointed hat, standing in a shadowy dark autumn forest. A towering, menacing antlered forest entity with glowing red eyes looms behind her, while a fiery red solar eclipse glows in the sky above next to a glowing crystal ball on a rune carved stone pedestal. The scene uses deep moody tones of burgundy, dark purple, and black, with a tense, foreboding mystical horror atmosphere.

Tags: dark fantasy, witch art, solar eclipse, horned forest demon, occult illustration, crystal ball, spooky haunted forest, celestial witch, gothic fantasy, magical artwork, antlered monster, eerie atmosphere, astrological wizard, dark surrealism, fantasy horror

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CaylaCatz

meta ai final prompt (the music bit was earlier in the conversation): Make a video with this as the start image. The woman looks like she does in the original image, late 20s. Her pointed witch hat stays on her head the entire time. Greek deity Epiales is behind her. Sequence in exact order: 1. start scene she is looking away from the Greek deity Epiales towards the camera as if she hears something behind her, she is facing towards the camera 2. she turns her head looking up behind her over her shoulder 3. she spots the Greek deity Epiales behind her reaching towards her with his hand 4. she flips over his hand in the air so he misses her, athletic flip, lands on her skates 5. she does a 180 degree turn to face the camera fully 6. she skates AWAY from the deity towards the camera, escaping 7. she skates on the path away from the deity 8. she hits a root bump in the dirt 9. she flips over the root in the air 10. she lands on her feet on her skates 11. she keeps skating towards the camer

CaylaCatz

thank you. It did take a few tries with Muse which is why I ended up breaking it down step by step action. That helped a lot. Meta also suggested I add extra reference images on the faces. meta explained to me, when it's making afilm, it doesn't remember. So whenever the face is hidden for a second -- like when you turn around -- when you see the face again, it might be a different face. By giving it an additional reference face, it knows to use that face again when the face is visible again. I didn't do that because I didn't have another picture, just the starter pic. So I emphasized that the face has to stay the same look and age as the starter pic and that helped to keep the face and age. It had a bad tendency to make her younger

CaylaCatz

laughing, I better go practice my backflips then. I also think it was confused because she turned around. In horror movies, people keep going upstairs even tho they know the serial killer is up there. I'd be heading out the door or locking myself into the bathroom and calling for help!

crabmouse

I haven't used muse before! Usually I find the more prompts I give a video the more it gets confused- and with something like pixverse I need to get lucky, but with seedream it's good at understanding. What prompt did you use for this one?

CaylaCatz

(finishing meta ai prompt. STarting from 11) : 11. she keeps skating towards the camera successfully escaping away from Epiales. 10 seconds. 16:9 same size as image. Music: epic cinematic metal rock vibe mixed quieter, lower volume background, heavy drums and electric guitars.

CaylaCatz

thank you! Don't insult the deity! They get mad ... well unless you have an Attack Girlfriend Witch. Then maybe you'd be safe!

crabmouse

Now that I've used Muse video this is especially good- muse is fun and cheap, but not good at listening.

JMN

Turns out backflips confuse the hell out of nightmare gods to the point that they forget to steal your soul!~😋

panos

Whoa!!! That was SOME move there!!!!! Eat it Επιάλης!!! (Well, final cut of the video turned out all right, imo)

panos

You're wellcome! Well, as you know vy now, i'm kibd of irreverent. Lands me in all sorts of trouble...