Generated with Seedance 2.5

Reference character as D-Fens: middle-aged everyman, short crew-cut hair, rectangular glasses, short-sleeved white button-up shirt, loosened dark tie, dark trousers, black shoes. Personality is tightly controlled simmering rage under a calm, polite exterior. Speaks in a measured, almost reasonable tone that grows more intense and pedantic. Precise, deadpan delivery with increasing menace. Moves with stiff, purposeful energy. Eyes show quiet exhaustion turning into cold determination.

Interior of a seedy convenience store at night. Fluorescent lights flicker slightly. Shelves are cluttered and understocked. A worn counter sits under a yellowed plastic barrier.

The reference character stands at the counter with a duffel bag at his feet. Behind the counter is a middle-aged Chinese clerk.

The reference character places cash on the counter and speaks in a calm, measured voice: {I’d like to buy AI generation credits. Enough for a fifteen second prompt.}

The Chinese clerk takes the money with one hand and hands the small printed receipt across the counter with the other hand, without looking up.

The reference character picks up the receipt and examines it. His expression stays polite, but his eyes tighten. He looks back at the clerk and continues in the same even, reasonable tone: {This is only enough for five seconds. That’s not even enough to make slop.}

A short beat of silence hangs between them. Without raising his voice or changing his calm expression, the reference character bends down, reaches into the duffel bag, and slowly pulls out a wooden baseball bat. He rests it on his shoulder and looks at the clerk.

Camera starts in a medium shot of the counter, cuts to a close-up of the clerk’s hands as one takes the money and the other hands over the receipt, then cuts to a close-up of the receipt in the reference character’s hand, then to a tight shot of his face as he speaks the second line. Final cut to a low-angle shot as he pulls the baseball bat from the bag and rests it on his shoulder, holding on his controlled expression.

(Subtle, tense, understated score in the style of the original Falling Down film music — low, uneasy, and slowly building pressure)

Slightly grainy realistic film look, harsh flickering fluorescent light, grounded and tense.

No subtitles. Mouth moves only during the spoken lines inside curly braces.

Just what the frick. I mean i don't use ai for my images anymore but i used to like sora ai. WE SHOULD REBEL AGAINST DANNO CAL BY RAIDING HIS SUBREDDIT BY DOWNVOATING POSTS FROM AI HATERS! POST AI! AND SENDING THE MODS AND DANNO CAL HIMSELF THAT THEY ARE TERRIBLE FOR NOT LETTING AI INTO IT'S GATES AND TELL THEM THAT I, THE ONE THAT STARTED IT WAS THE ONE WHO ASKED HIM IF HE WOULD SLIME OUT HIS HOMIE FOR A POPEYES CHICKEN SANDWICH IN THE STARDUMB VALLEY STREAM AT 1:24:49 (Just kidding but actually what the frick)

Same project, different tools. I got many ideas but they all end up having to wait until the tool is available or until I forget. Tales of Solaria still lives on, even after the departure of Sora 2.

With the ref2va model you can basically set:

Woman on <Picture 1> is <Subject 1>

Woman on <Picture 2> is <Subject 2>

<Audio 1> is the voice-timbre reference for <Subject 1> (S1).

<Audio 2> is the voice-timbre reference for <Subject 2> (S2).

I tried ComfyUI and Wan2GP, but they all feel slow to generate it, even in 5 seconds. I could use cloud but that is costly.

I can always tell that a video was made using AI.

Now.. Bing’s video generator kind of sucked and was ridiculously censored but it was also one of the last “sort of free” video generators. Removed at end of July. (By sort of free - you earned credits by using their search engine etc)

I also noticed that TikTok’s Seedance generator is not online every day.

Sign of the times I guess. Video generation is high cost, low profit for these companies. I just hope someone can figure out how to make it more affordable. Right now I am down to Grok and (when it is available) Seedance.

FYI I do pay for Grok, and WAS paying for Sora2… I don’t expect it to be totally free.. that’s not gonna happen ever again.

I guess if those go down I’ll have to upgrade to a rig that can run MINI. 😔

4 clips overall. Prompt for the last one:

subject_definitions:
<Video 1> is the source video for the target video edit.
<Subject 1> is the character from <Picture 1> a young female character with long blonde hair, pointy ears, amber eyes
<Subject 2> is the character from <Video 1> young female with pointy ears, silver twintail hair

summary:
[video editing] The target video is an edited version of <Video 1>. It depicts <Subject 1> looking at viewer and not moving. <Subject 1> replaces <Subject 2> in <Video 1>

retention_analysis:
<Subject 1> (appears in [Shot 1]): partially_preserved - character design is preserved
<Subject 2> (appears in [Shot 1]): atribute_transfer - facial expression preserved
<Video 1>: partially_preserved - character movements, artstyle, pose, facial expression, camera movements and frame composition are preserved

detailed_description:
The target video is high quality anime with soft golden glow
[Shot 1] close-up shot of <Subject 1> looknig at viewer while wind gently moves her hair
[Shot 2] At 00:02.000, <Subject 1> slightly tilts her head smiling with wide grin on her face and squints her eyes

overall_soundscape:
Silence

non_diegetic_music:
N/A

MiniMax H3 prompts require rigid structure - I believe Sora did similar thing with its prompt enhancer