The craft, minus the 246 pages.
A growing shelf of field guides and articles on making AI video that doesn't look like AI video. Plain words, real film craft, every concept aimed at the prompt box. New pieces land here as they're written — start at the top.
4 published · more on the way. Free character gallery → Freebies
The Five C's, for the prompt box
The 1965 cinematography bible, rewritten for the prompt box. Shot sizes, the 180° line, screen direction, masters and coverage — the forty words that make the models behave.
The clean-source protocol, for image-to-video
Why Seedance and Pippit clips come back broken, and the two-stage fix: the control board guides the source frame — it never touches the video model. Includes the depth stack and a bilingual (English/Mandarin) prompt template.
The quickstart, from idea to first clip
The shortest reliable path from a thought to a posted shot in Seedance 2.0. Seven numbered steps with copy-paste blocks — one set for your AI chat, one for the prompt box. The on-ramp for everything else here.
Directing the scene, with references and multi-shot
Stop describing, start directing. Seedance 2.0's @reference system, character and scene images, multi-shot planning, atmosphere layers, and long-form chaining — built around the five planning questions that set your whole approach.