THE FLYING TESLA METHOD

How I put a flying Tesla in London.How I put a
flying Tesla
in London.

Tesla showed its new Roadster driving up a wall and hopping over cars. I took it round London and made it look like phone footage people filmed. The car sheet, the location prompt, the full prompt for the tunnel shot, and the rules that stopped it looking fake.

Made on Higgsfield with GPT Image 2.5, Seedream 5.0 Pro and Seedance 2.5. Spec work, not affiliated with Tesla.

The reel.

Every shot is one Seedance 2.5 generation with two images attached: a sheet of the car, and a photo of the place with no car in it. The prompt does the rest. Most of the work was getting the car to move the way the real one does.

01

Lock the car first.

The car is brand new, so no model knows what it looks like. I gave GPT Image 2.5 three of Tesla's press photos and asked for three real-looking photos of it parked: front three-quarter, side and rear three-quarter. Three views, not six. More angles confused it, and a grey studio sheet made the car look rendered in every shot after.

The car sheet: three photos of the white Roadster parked on concrete
The car sheet

AThe car sheet

GPT Image 2.5 Sunburst · quality max · 2K · 16:9 · attach three real photos of the car

Three real photographs of the same car from the reference images, placed side by side in one wide image with thin white gaps between them: left, front three-quarter view; middle, side profile facing left; right, rear three-quarter view. It is exactly the car in the references: a low two-door wedge coupe, satin white upper body with crisp angular facets, black lower body and a black sill sweeping up from the front wheel to the rear, a long bronze-tinted glass canopy, a thin white front light bar with small corner headlights, one thin full-width red rear light bar, a small white rear plate reading RDSTR, a black rear panel with four round nozzles, black angular wheels with bronze accents. Photographed for real, not rendered: parked on a plain pale concrete floor in front of a plain pale grey concrete wall, soft overcast daylight from above, soft natural contact shadows, the grey sky reflected dully in the paint, a little road dust on the tyres and lower sills, true colours, shot on a full-frame camera with a 50mm lens, natural depth of field, slight grain. The same light, floor and camera distance in all three photos. No people, no text, no labels, no logos except the RDSTR plate.

02

Empty London.

Every location is a photo of the place with nobody and no car in it, made on Seedream 5.0 Pro. Put the car in the location photo and it stops moving like a car. Write it as an unedited iPhone photo: the lens, the noise, the horizon slightly off, flat grey light. And get the traffic right, because we drive on the left.

An empty Thames road tunnel with a broken-down van
The tunnel
Westminster Bridge traffic seen from the pavement
The bridge
A south London terraced street from a first-floor window
The street
  • Give it a reason: build the problem into the photo. The tunnel has a broken-down van with oncoming traffic beside it, so nobody can get round.
  • Leave room: no railing on the side the car climbs, and an empty space where it needs to go.

BThe empty tunnel

Seedream 5.0 Pro · 2K · 9:16 · no reference images

An unedited vertical iPhone photo taken from the front passenger seat (left side) of a right-hand-drive UK car stopped in the old two-lane road tunnel under the Thames in London, looking forward through the dusty windscreen down a straight section. UK traffic drives on the left: our lane is the left lane. Directly ahead in our lane there is an empty gap of about one car length, then a broken-down white panel van stopped dead with its hazard lights flashing orange, about three car lengths from us. Beyond the van our lane is completely empty and clearly visible for a long way down the straight tunnel. The right-hand lane carries a steady stream of oncoming headlights, so nobody can pull out around the van. On the LEFT the curved tiled wall comes straight down to a low concrete kerb beside our lane: no walkway, no railing on the left, just off-white glazed tiles stained grey with grime curving up into the ceiling. On the right, beyond the oncoming lane, a narrow raised walkway with a metal railing. A strip of warm orange lights along the top of the ceiling. The dashboard edge and a phone mount at the bottom, the edge of the steering wheel at the bottom right. No people visible. Real phone camera: warm orange cast, sensor noise, slight blur, JPEG compression. No text, no logos, no readable signs.

03

Copy the real car.

My first rounds were rubbish. I described how the car works and Seedance guessed: rocket jets, flying off at speed, parked the wrong way up. The fix was to watch Tesla's real demo frame by frame and only ask for moves the car actually did, at the speed it did them.

  • Suction: fans in the floor hold it to any surface. The tyres always touch it and the roof always points away from it. It climbs a curved wall slowly, in about five seconds.
  • Jets: four thin, bright jets fire straight down. It rises level, hangs, then sinks slowly, with fog where they hit the ground.
  • One move per shot: every time I asked it to land at an exact spot past something, it landed short. So the tunnel shot never lands. It drives off over the van instead.
  • Reactions: people react late and talk to who they are with. The dad has been stuck for twenty minutes, so he doesn't say wow. He says "you're having a laugh."
04

The tunnel prompt.

This is the full prompt for the tunnel shot, with only two images attached: the car sheet and the empty tunnel. It describes how the car moves once, then what happens second by second, then who is in the car and what they would really say.

Over the van

CThe tunnel shot

Seedance 2.5 · omni reference · image 1 the car sheet, image 2 the empty tunnel · 9:16 · 10 seconds · draft first

Vertical iPhone video, real handheld footage filmed by a young woman in the front passenger seat of her dad's right-hand-drive car, stopped in the old tiled road tunnel under the Thames behind a broken-down van, through the dusty windscreen, dashboard edge at the bottom. Not cinematic: road vibration, orange sodium light, noisy shadows, autofocus hunting, heavy phone compression.

Image 1 is the car, exactly as in the photos: a low white wedge coupe, black lower body, bronze-tinted glass, one full-width red rear light bar, four round rear nozzles, plate RDSTR. Same shape and size in every frame, lit orange by the tunnel lights, grime on its sills. Image 2 is the location: this tunnel, the broken-down white van with its hazards on a few car lengths ahead in our lane, oncoming headlights in the right lane so nobody can get round it, the curved tiled wall on our left coming down to a low kerb with no railing.

How this car moves: fans in its floor suck it onto any surface, so it can drive up a curved wall and along a ceiling upside down, tyres always touching the surface and roof always pointing away from it. It moves slowly and steadily, like a car crawling in traffic. It never leaves the surface and there are no jets.

0-2s: the white car is stopped straight in our lane right in front of us, its rear and RDSTR plate facing us. The van is ahead of it.

2-5s: it steers left onto the curved tiled wall and climbs it slowly, following the curve round until it is upside down on the ceiling.

5-10s: upside down, tyres on the tiles, it drives steadily away from us along the ceiling, passes over the top of the van and carries on down the tunnel until it is small in the distance, its red light bar glowing. Below it the van and the jam stay exactly where they are.

The filmer's breath catches as it climbs. Once it has passed over the van, her dad, a London man in his fifties in the driver's seat on the right, only his hand on the wheel at the bottom right of frame, flat and deadpan: you're having a laugh. She laughs, breathy, close to the mic. Natural, not acted.

Sound, as an iPhone mic records it inside a car in a tunnel: engines idling, the van's hazards ticking, the rising howl of its fans echoing off the tiles, its tyres rumbling on the ceiling and fading away. No music.

05

Upside down, the right way.

Every bay is full, so it parks on the ceiling and gets a ticket. Seedance kept parking it roof-first, the right way up. What fixed it was describing what you would actually see from the floor: the side of the car turned upside down, the tyres at the top against the concrete, the glass hanging at head height, and the plate reading upside down. Paste this line in wherever the car is upside down.

The ticket

DThe upside-down line

Paste into any Seedance prompt where the car sits on a ceiling

It is completely UPSIDE DOWN: we see its whole side profile turned upside down, its four tyres at the top pressed flat against the concrete ceiling, its black lower body and sill near the ceiling, and its white roof and bronze-tinted glass at the bottom, hanging down toward the floor at head height. Nose to the left. Its RDSTR plate, when seen, reads upside down. It looks exactly like a normal parked car photographed with the picture turned upside down. It does not move at all.

06

The finish.

It is meant to look like someone's phone, so don't grade it pretty. The only polish is resolution and a little texture, the same on every shot.

  • Drafts: run two to four at 480p, pick the best, and finalise only that one at 1080p.
  • 4K: Topaz on Higgsfield, 2160p, 9:16.
  • Texture: a light sharpen and a fine grain after the upscale, nothing else.
  • Sound: keep the sound Seedance gives you. Each clip's own mic noise is what makes it feel filmed.

TAKE IT WITH YOU

Every prompt, one file.

The car sheet, the empty tunnel, the tunnel shot and the upside-down line, ready for your own car.

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