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Build an Ultra-Realistic Short Film in 4K: Age your character for flashbacks

2026-08-10 · Academy lesson · Adil · recording, 1:36 · original

Topic: Assets, references & consistency · mode: Tutorial · tags: course chapter, series, one creator's experience

For the scene 6 flashback of the football drama Santiago, Adil ages the hero down to a seven-year-old from his regular character sheet through a Claude prompt, makes a warm golden-hour location and two props (an old ball in GPT Image 2, a homemade cup), then loads them into Claude for the scene.

Part of another source

This recording is almost entirely part of This is How I Made an Ultra Realistic AI Short Film Using Seedance 2.0 in 4K (Full Workflow) (2026-07-07); what is said in it is covered on that page.

What is said

  • 00:00:00 — Kid Santiago's character sheet for the scene 6 flashback
  • 00:00:28 — The flashback location: a field in an old Spanish town at golden hour, in warm tones
  • 00:00:56 — The props (old ball, homemade cup) and scene 6 generated from the assets

Threads in this video

  • refine · How do you keep a character the same across shots? — To age Santiago down for the flashback, Adil attaches his regular character sheet and asks Claude for a prompt that turns him into a seven-year-old with "Santiago" written on his shirt, then picks the kid who looks most like Santiago. (00:00:00)
  • restate · How do you keep a location, product or prop the same across shots? — For the props Adil asks Claude for a prompt for "an old ordinary sized football on plain gray background", generates it in GPT Image 2 and saves the best as an asset named "old ball", locking the football. (00:00:56)

Mentioned

Central: character sheet · Claude · Santiago (character, “Santiago”) · Santiago (production)

Also: GPT Image 2

Only in the description or credits: Build an Ultra-Realistic Short Film in 4K · Claude Fable 5 · Higgsfield Academy · Seedance 2.0

Also centred on Santiago (character, “Santiago”): Build an Ultra-Realistic Short Film in 4K: Scene 2 assets: kit, keeper, stadium · Build an Ultra-Realistic Short Film in 4K: Establishing shots and realistic hands · Build an Ultra-Realistic Short Film in 4K: Character sheets in Soul Cinema · Build an Ultra-Realistic Short Film in 4K: The Dutch angle and combining takes · Build an Ultra-Realistic Short Film in 4K: Full film and recap · Build an Ultra-Realistic Short Film in 4K: Directing the voice-over

Also centred on Santiago (production): How To Direct an AI Short Film Like a Filmmaker (Full Workflow + Prompts) · This is How I Made an Ultra Realistic AI Short Film Using Seedance 2.0 in 4K (Full Workflow) · Build an Ultra-Realistic Short Film in 4K: Thinking like a director · Build an Ultra-Realistic Short Film in 4K: The prompt-builder skill and first Seedance run · Build an Ultra-Realistic Short Film in 4K: Scene 2 assets: kit, keeper, stadium · Build an Ultra-Realistic Short Film in 4K: Write the script with story structure

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