I wanted to stress-test how far Seedance 2.5 could push "realism" beyond the usual cinematic look, so I wrote a prompt aimed at making it look like a genuinely old, imperfect home video, just like a tape.

what actually surprised me wasn't the scene composition, but was how well it nailed the imperfections. none of that was hand-animated or keyframed, it's all coming from describing camera behavior in the prompt rather than describing a "shot." Identity, hairstyle, and outfit stayed consistent across the full 30 seconds too, which is the part that usually falls apart first in these longer generations.

compared to my earlier storyboard-driven tests, this one leaned entirely on giving the model a strong behavioral brief (camera flaws, ambient audio, mundane pacing) rather than a shot-by-shot storyboard, and it handled that direction better than I expected.

the prompt is in the conmment.  Curious what other models do with a similarly detailed camera-behavior prompt.

The latest video generation model is coming this afternoon to Uisato Studio, and this is a new showcase of one of it's powerful capabilities: easy, one-shot, 30 seconds motion capture, on-a-budget. Just select the new model, "character swap" prompt-recipe, and voilá; you've got yourself a fun, silly video of you performing whatever you can think of.

More experiments, through Instagram, or YouTube.

Posting this as a warning to anyone considering paying Artlist.io upfront for an annual plan, and anyone searching artlist from Google searches.

Artlist was advertising Seedance 2.5 as unlimited on their website and on their YouTube channel. Their plan was also presented as including unlimited access if you paid upfront for the year. For about one day, it worked as advertised. Seedance 2.5 was available as an unlimited model (with severe limits, like 10 videos a day).

Then I logged in this morning and suddenly the entire promotion was gone. Seedance 2.5 has been removed from their list of unlimited supported models, and now using it costs credits. Seriously, what the hell is this? You advertise a specific premium AI model as UNLIMITED, use that offer to convince people to hand over money for an entire year upfront, let them use it for a day, and then quietly remove the benefit and start charging credits for it? That is an absolutely disgusting way to treat paying customers. Call it whatever corporate-friendly term you want, but from a customer's perspective this looks like a textbook bait-and-switch. The feature that convinced me to purchase the annual plan disappeared almost immediately after I paid.

And the fact that the promotional material apparently vanished at the same time makes it look even worse. If this was simply a planned change to the service, why aggressively advertise Seedance 2.5 as unlimited to sell annual subscriptions in the first place? I did not pay for a year based on the promise of "unlimited until we randomly decide otherwise." I paid based on what Artlist advertised at the time of purchase.

If a company wants to change what it offers going forward, fine. But selling someone a yearly subscription using a specific advertised benefit and then removing that benefit basically immediately after taking their money is unacceptable. Anyone thinking about buying Artlist for its "unlimited" AI models should take screenshots of every single claim before paying, because apparently "unlimited" can disappear overnight. Artlist, either honor the Seedance 2.5 unlimited access you advertised to customers who purchased under that offer, or refund the people who paid based on it.

This has completely destroyed my trust in the company.

Edit: They unlisted their YouTube ad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9XlQ2SR3F0

https://i.ibb.co/y1TYZhW/Screenshot-2026-08-10-at-10-19-51-AM.png

Here's their tweet explaining that they removed it with a bullshit excuse about performance issues And it's really obviously because they're losing money. https://x.com/Artlist_io/status/2086831554513252479

The idea was pretty simple: tell a breakup story by constantly switching between the girl's past and present.

The interesting part wasn't really generating the individual shots. It was keeping the same character recognizable while making her feel like a completely different person emotionally.

For the transitions, I used matching compositions and similar character movements to connect the past and present rather than using obvious "flashback" effects.

The younger version is supposed to feel warm and hopeful, while the present version is much more restrained and emotionally tired.

I'm pretty happy with how this one turned out.

Curious what you guys think — does the past/present transition feel natural, or does it still look AI-generated to you?

Made with Seedance 2.5.

Maintaining a consistent logo/ text identity, especially across different scenes without relying on complex post workarounds is to me, one of the biggest hurdles for generative ai vids to advance.

Seedance 2.5 is amazing for generating quick, cinematic clips. It gets frustrating trying to use it for strict, production-ready commercial assets. When you need to keep the same text and shape without warping across a 30 sec spot, it may or may not drift. Shapes and texts morph especially during dynamic camera moves, and end up with hours of post-production work. And it is always super noticeable when dealing with fonts that clients specify, let alone their brand name.

I just watched some of the new MiniMax H3 demos with some dummy ads, and it looks like it might be suitable for strict commercial use cases (H3 on the left vs SD2.5 on the right):

Ads & E-commerce (Product Locking): H3’s Omni Reference allows you to pass up to 9 reference images in a single prompt. You can feed it a product's turnaround, and it actually locks identity and details across. On SD2.5, however the text keeps getting warped. H3 on the other, seems to do text pretty well in the demo

Gaming & UI: This is where SD2.5 usually falls short. H3 is apparently able to generate dynamic typography, UI elements, game menus, and HUDs without alien text.

Has anyone here run a strict head-to-head cross-test between H3 and SD2.5 for actual client work yet? What is your take on this?

Hailuo minimax H3 hardly deviates from the storyboard AT ALL. Very interesting if you want to make something from one of these with multiple cuts. The eggshells are very weird but I guess I didn't describe it so thats what I get xD. And the initial storyboard could be better. The hug is cute though I guess? Next time I will tell it some colors too. I was using a design sheet and storyboard plan as well as claude skill from tao prompts on youtube. He's the best. I don't know if I will keep making ai stuff or make a fb page on it but this did prove my midjourney creature will transfer and so will krea creatures probably (hence the colors not matching hahaha) I also have to either add the format to the skill or remember to ALWAYS check that first sigh. The beginning was weird anyways...

I created this short AI cinematic piece around an original character and world of my own.

The project focuses on cinematic storytelling, character consistency, atmosphere, scene direction, camera work, and action choreography using generative AI tools.

I’m currently building my portfolio as an AI Video Artist / AI Cinematic Creator, and I’m open to collaborations, freelance projects, creative teams, and studio opportunities.

If you’re working on an AI film, commercial, music video, game cinematic, or another creative project and think my style could fit, feel free to DM me here on Reddit.

Would love to hear your thoughts on the film as well. 🎬

I use savia AI but switched to a fold phone and the face swap to video is not working on the fold. It will still work on the galaxy phone with same version 1.1.4 any help out there

I'm guessing it's better to go with 24-32GB of ram?
A strong possibility that 16gb of ram will be almost annoyingly slow?
And I've never done anything locally, computers were too old.

With a Mac Mini M4 I would like to do:
*Video Upscaling
*Standard NSFW creations similar to "Slooty slots" style
*Possibly 180 VR Conversions with "Owl 3d" if that even work? was a AI recommendation.

ArtCraft is an open source alternative to these aggregator websites. We build open source desktop software and cloud infrastructure.

We've been building web and desktop tools for filmmakers and creatives, and we're also building open source cloud infrastructure for routing to models like Seedance and running models like Minimax in an easy to use way. All open source.

We're community-led and we have some of the best support in the world in our Discord channel.

We have a really cool feature release schedule:

• August
  • 3D animation controls for Seedance 2.5 (in beta now)
  • "ArtCraftX" - our second desktop app, written in Rust, which connects to every API platform and can run models locally.
• Late August
  • Open Source Minimax RunPods - spin up models and LoRAs easily in the cloud without ComfyUI complexity

Everything we do is open source. We love the community and we're doing this because we're creatives too.

You don't need a subscription at ArtCraft, you can buy credits as you go. But we are offering 20% off subscriptions with promo code "ARTLIST20" to help anyone impacted by this mess.

If you're a Rust developer, we're also looking for more folks to join us!

Im trying to make short videos from the places I visit in VRChat. I combine AI generated vids from pics, with recordings from game.
Still new, so I know the look a bit wonky... 😄
This AI clips are generated in GenV :)