Character Sheet → Multi-Shot AI Drama

Character reference sheet → multi-shot scene with a consistent character.

Category: motion · Difficulty: Advanced · ~Time: 20 min

What you'll make

A short, multi-shot dramatic scene (3–5 clips) starring the same character across angles and beats — wide establishing shot, medium two-shot, close-up reaction. Use it for an AI short film, a webtoon-style episode, or a story-driven ad. Character consistency is the whole game here, which is why we drive it from a reference sheet.

Models used

🎬 Video — Seedance 2.5 reference-to-video (resolve live; e.g. bytedance/seedance-2.5/reference-to-video)
🎬 Video (drafts) — Seedance 2.0 Fast reference-to-video (cheapest, for blocking shots)
🎨 Image — Seedream 4.5 sequential / Nano Banana Pro (resolve live), for the source sheet
💬 LLM — Claude, to break a logline into a shot list + per-shot prompts

Steps

Build the character sheet — run the Character Reference Sheet recipe to get multi-pose, multi-expression reference images of your character.
Upload the references — ask the agent to upload the sheet (or your best 1–3 frames) so they become URLs → maps to atlas_upload_media.
Write the shot list — "Turn this logline into 4 shots with camera, blocking, and emotion for each." → maps to atlas_chat with Claude.
Block each shot cheaply — feed the reference + a shot prompt → maps to atlas_generate_video with Seedance 2.5 reference-to-video (seedance-2.0-fast first).

Tip: ask the agent to atlas_search_docs for the model first — reference-to-video expects specific reference-image fields and counts.
Final render + assemble — re-run keepers at full quality, then ask for an ffmpeg concat in story order with simple cuts.

Prompt starters

Use the attached character references. Shot 1, wide establishing: she stands
at the edge of a rain-soaked rooftop at night, city lights below, coat moving
in the wind. Slow push-in. Keep her face, hair, and outfit exactly as the
reference. 5 seconds, cinematic, 2.39:1.

Use the attached character references. Shot 3, close-up: same woman, a single
tear, eyes flick up as thunder cracks. Handheld micro-movement, shallow focus.
Match the reference identity precisely. 4 seconds.

Tips & variations

Repeat the phrase "keep face, hair, and wardrobe identical to the reference" in every shot — drift compounds across clips.
Keep lighting and lens language consistent shot-to-shot (same color grade, same focal feel) so cuts don't jar.
For dialogue beats, hand the close-ups to a lip-sync pass with the Talking Avatar recipe.