👋 Hi everyone! Just want to apologise for the radio silence from me the past week, I've been very busy with these videos and have been looking after my sick 5 month old daughter so It's been a handful 😅. I have compiled some really awesome animation styles in this latest video, I mostly used Seedance 2.5 but more recently I have been testing out the new Minimax H3 , H3 MAX and H3 MAX TURBO models and they are looking great for animations. The great thing about the MAX models in particular is they are really cheap and incredibly fast, so I would recommend trying them out. Also a huge thanks for your animation style recommendations from my last post! I managed to include some in this video 😁. I'll be looking at doing a 'Volume 2' of this animation series, so if anyone has any more creative animation styles they would like to share then please do so, I really appreciate it. 👉 I've also created a animation styles prompt document which includes all the animation styles if you want to try them out. Thanks! 🤩 📘 💡 Prompt document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V3En-pWsczDDycTYqjwSJc3c88gANlB7/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=109448758079468035019&rtpof=true&sd=true https://youtu.be/RbAwwMte270

I created the entire action sequence first as a 3D previs using a Clay Render — focusing purely on choreography, camera movement, timing, composition, and scene continuity. No textures. No polished lighting. No distractions. Just the core mechanics of the scene. For action sequences, I find this approach especially useful: if the scene already feels cinematic in a simple clay render, the final visuals only make it stronger. Previs → Clay Render → Final Visual Sedance 2.0.

Sedance 2.5 1080p I tried to create one proper cinematic shot using AI — and in the end, nothing really worked out 😅 I went through tons of generations, different settings, references, and approaches. I even used a Clay Render to give the AI a more accurate understanding of the scene geometry, composition, and camera movement. In the end, I’ve already spent around $200 experimenting, and I still haven’t managed to get the shot I actually wanted. I used the prompt from the attached TXT file together with 4 key visual frames as references for the generation. I ran a lot of tests and iterations, trying different approaches, settings, and workflows. After all that experimentation, I still consider the final result very disappointing and far below my expectations, especially considering the amount of time and money spent.

This iconic action scene turned out to be incredibly difficult to recreate — even when you have the original sequence right in front of you as a reference. At first, it seems simple: the shots already exist, the camera movement is there, the timing is known. You just need to repeat it. In reality, it’s the opposite. A very interesting experiment — and definitely one of the more challenging scenes I’ve tried to reimagine with AI.

I created this video using Seedance 2.0, The goal was to test how far I could push AI video while keeping a strong cinematic language — controlled camera movement, composition, atmosphere, lighting, and consistency between shots. Most of the work was about experimenting with prompts, reference frames, camera behavior, and multiple generations until the shots started to feel like parts of the same film. Created with Seedance 2.0. Would be interesting to hear what you think about the result.