Make an AI Animated Short: Scene 2 — The Cowboy Chase

2026-08-10 · Academy lesson · Adil · recording, 1:46 · original

Topic: Video generation & shot direction (also: Image generation & editing) · mode: Tutorial · tags: course chapter, series, one creator's experience

In scene 2 of his animated short, Adil makes a French-graphic-novel cowboy chase: a Soul Cinema keyframe, Claude given the keyframe and the scene 1 prompt, and Seedance given the prompt, the keyframe and the previous video to keep the story consistent.

Part of another source

This recording is almost entirely part of How To Make an AI Animated Short Film (Full Workflow) (2026-04-09); what is said in it is covered on that page.

What is said

• 00:00:00 — Scene 2 plan and the French graphic novel keyframe in Soul Cinema
• 00:00:30 — Key phrases and batches; Claude with the previous prompt; Seedance with the previous video
• 00:01:36 — The finished cowboy chase scene

Threads in this video

• restate · When a generation fails, should you generate more takes, fix the prompt or start over? — Adil runs a few batches of the Soul Cinema keyframe and picks the strongest one. (00:00:30)
• restate · Which LLM should be used to write video prompts? — Adil uploads the new keyframe to Claude together with the prompt of the previous animation, so Claude knows what happened in scene 1 and keeps the style, the character and the teleport effect. (00:00:30)
• refine · How do you keep a character the same across shots? — Adil feeds Seedance 2.0 the prompt, the keyframe as a style reference and, most importantly, the previous scene's video; he says this keeps the story consistent across scenes, carrying the portal effect, the characters and the style. (00:01:00)

Mentioned

Central: Claude · Make an AI Animated Short · Seedance 2.0

Also: keyframe · Soul Cinema

Only in the description or credits: Higgsfield Academy

Also centred on Make an AI Animated Short: Make an AI Animated Short: Scene 6 — Clay Hell · Make an AI Animated Short: The full film, and the workflow behind it · Make an AI Animated Short: Scene 7 — The Wedding Crash · Make an AI Animated Short: Scene 5 — The Manga World · Make an AI Animated Short: Scene 3 — The Low-Poly Arena · Make an AI Animated Short: Scene 4 — The Cyberpunk Rooftop

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