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AI Short Film – Full Prompt Library: Seedance 2.0

2026-04-08 · blog how-to · Higgsfield · original

Topic: Video generation & shot direction (also: Assets, references & consistency) · mode: Tutorial · tags: prompts shared, one creator's experience

This Higgsfield blog post gives every prompt for an AI animated short in eight styles, from anime and claymation to a live-action ending, made with Seedance 2.0. It starts with consistent assets: a multi-angle prop sheet of the watch, made in Nano Banana Pro, keeps the prop the same across all eight styles. Most 15-second Seedance 2.0 scene prompts are written as labelled, timed beats, often ending with a style line for 2.35:1 widescreen at 24fps, and the previous scene's video is fed in as context to keep the story consistent.

What is said

  • Scene 8: The Restaurant Ending (live-action cinematic)

What is said

★ — how much it matters to the source.

  • ★★ Higgsfield publishes the full prompt library of the AI animated short from its YouTube tutorial on making one, with every clip and the exact prompt that made it. · Seedance 2.0
  • ★★ Before generating any scenes of the short, Higgsfield advises creating a character keyframe and a prop sheet of the watch, since the watch appears in every scene and getting it right first saves time. · keyframe
  • ★★ Higgsfield offers the Claude skill it used to have Claude write Seedance 2.0 prompts from a plain-English description; it is linked in the YouTube tutorial's description. · Claude, Seedance 2.0 · also in: Seedance 2.0 — Complete Prompting Guide (Full Prompt Library)
  • ★★ Most scenes of the short get a keyframe generated in Soul Cinema from a short prompt naming the style and the action, such as "Cartoon, highly stylized, a man waking up in the bedroom", which sets the scene's visual style. · Soul Cinema, keyframe
  • ★★★ Higgsfield makes a multi-angle prop sheet of the watch in Nano Banana Pro ("multiple orthographic views (front, side, back, top), exploded view"), saying the views keep the watch consistent across all eight styles of the short. · Nano Banana Pro
  • ★★ In the first Seedance 2.0 scene prompt, the keyframe image is named as both the character reference and the visual style reference, with the watch image as a second reference. · Seedance 2.0
  • ★★★ Higgsfield writes most 15-second Seedance 2.0 scene prompts of the short as labelled, timed beats ("Opening frame (0–4s)", then the next beat from 4 seconds), many closing with a style line giving 2.35:1 widescreen and 24fps. · Seedance 2.0
  • ★★★ For the cowboy chase scene, Higgsfield feeds the previous scene's video into Seedance 2.0 as context to keep the story of the short consistent. · Seedance 2.0
  • ★★ The later scene prompts open with "Extend @video1. Continue exactly from the white flash of the last frame", so each new style picks up from the previous scene's teleport flash. · Seedance 2.0
  • ★★ For the low-poly arena scene, Nano Banana Pro edits the Soul Cinema keyframe to give the hero brown hair and a black suit matching Scene 1, keeping everything else, with no new generation needed. · Nano Banana Pro, keyframe, Soul Cinema
  • ★★ When a style keyframe shows another character, the Seedance 2.0 prompt names the image as a visual style reference only, forbids using its character and asks for a new character in that style. · Seedance 2.0
  • ★★ For the manga scene, Higgsfield first generates the hero as a black-and-white manga character sheet in Nano Banana Pro, and that sheet is the reference image Seedance 2.0 gets for the scene. · character sheet, Nano Banana Pro, Seedance 2.0
  • ★★ Higgsfield says Seedance 2.0 generated the manga scene's speech bubbles with question marks and its kanji sound effects automatically. · Seedance 2.0
    • check: generates speech bubbles with question marks and kanji sound effects automatically — doubtful
  • ★★ The final live-action restaurant scene has no Soul Cinema keyframe: Seedance 2.0 gets only the watch prop sheet, the Scene 1 video and a text description. · Seedance 2.0, Soul Cinema
  • ★★ Higgsfield says Anna, the hero's date, was never visually described anywhere in the short and Seedance 2.0 invented her completely. · Seedance 2.0
  • ★★ For the wedding scene, a Soul Cinema keyframe of a couple kissing a 2D character is edited in Nano Banana Pro to swap in the Scene 1 hero, with nothing else in the scene changed. · Soul Cinema, Nano Banana Pro

Threads in this video

  • refine · How do you keep a location, product or prop the same across shots? — Higgsfield makes a multi-angle prop sheet of the watch in Nano Banana Pro ("multiple orthographic views (front, side, back, top), exploded view"), saying the views keep the watch consistent across all eight styles of the short.
  • refine · How do you direct a multi-shot sequence? — Higgsfield writes most 15-second Seedance 2.0 scene prompts of the short as labelled, timed beats ("Opening frame (0–4s)", then the next beat from 4 seconds), many closing with a style line giving 2.35:1 widescreen and 24fps.
  • restate · How do you make a clip longer? — For the cowboy chase scene, Higgsfield feeds the previous scene's video into Seedance 2.0 as context to keep the story of the short consistent.
  • refine · Which image model should be used for keyframes, edits, text and outfits? — For the low-poly arena scene, Nano Banana Pro edits the Soul Cinema keyframe to give the hero brown hair and a black suit matching Scene 1, keeping everything else, with no new generation needed.
  • refine · How do you keep a character the same across shots? — For the manga scene, Higgsfield first generates the hero as a black-and-white manga character sheet in Nano Banana Pro, and that sheet is the reference image Seedance 2.0 gets for the scene.

Mentioned

Central: AI animated short with a teleporting watch · keyframe · Nano Banana Pro · Seedance 2.0 · Soul Cinema

Also: character sheet · Claude · Seedance 2.0 Claude skill

Also centred on AI animated short with a teleporting watch: How To Make an AI Animated Short Film (Full Workflow) · Seedance 2.0 Just Went Global! (2) · Make an AI Animated Short: The concept: one story, eight animation styles

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