How to make an AI anime videoOne picture, one sentence of motion
First frame
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Draw the first frame
Describe the character, the place and how it is drawn in the image generator. Any anime look you can put in words works.
Motion prompt
“An express train races through the little station without stopping. Its wind tears the clear umbrella inside out and out of her hand, and rain and blue hydrangea petals whirl around her. She watches the umbrella tumble away down the platform, then tips her face up into the rain and laughs. Fixed camera. Sound: rain, <the train's roar and a long horn>, <the umbrella snapping>, her laugh. No speech.”
Seedance 2.5 · 8 s · 480p · sound on
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Say what moves
Add the picture as the start frame. Write one action, one camera move and the sound you want.
1
Draw the first frame
Describe the character, the place and how it is drawn in the image generator. Any anime look you can put in words works.
2
Say what moves
Add the picture as the start frame. Write one action, one camera move and the sound you want.
3
Generate the clip
Seedance 2.5 makes 4 to 30 seconds with sound. Change one line and run it again if something drifts.
First frame prompt
Vertical anime film still in a gentle hand-drawn style with soft watercolor backgrounds: a young woman in her twenties with a short black bob and a moss green cardigan stands on a small rural train platform in summer rain, holding a clear umbrella, looking down the track as a two-car local train approaches with its headlight on. Blue hydrangeas along a wooden fence, wet concrete reflecting the sky, green hills in mist. Clean thin line art, soft cel shading. No text, no signs with writing, no logos.
The clip
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Generate the clip
Seedance 2.5 makes 4 to 30 seconds with sound. Change one line and run it again if something drifts.
First frame, drawn from her character sheet
Motion prompt for a fast shot
“She speeds down the hill toward the sea, hair and sleeves whipping in the wind, the power lines and houses rushing past, the camera tracking alongside her.”
First frame prompt
Use the character from these two images, with the same face, hair, glasses, cheek bandage and outfit. Draw her riding a bicycle fast down a steep hill road toward the sea in summer, leaning forward with a big grin, the inner tube looped over her shoulder, her hair and the tied overall sleeves blowing back. Power lines, a guardrail and small houses line the road, tall white clouds over a bright blue sea. Wide anime film shot, clean line art, cel shading, bright clear colors. No text, no signs.
A 30-second anime openingSix shots, one character, one track
Press play. Each shot was made from two references, the character sheet and that shot's drawn key frame, plus its own line of motion. The track was made in Audio and the shots joined in Studio.
Shot 1 · 0:00 to 0:04
“The camera flies fast and low over the dawn sea toward the rocky island, gulls whipping past the lens and waves bursting white on the rocks, and ends on the white lighthouse with a small figure in a yellow jacket at its door.”
Seedance 2.5 · 4 s · 480p · sound off
The character sheet. Every prompt names it @Image1 and the shot's key frame @Image2.
0:00 / 0:30
Music prompt
Instrumental opening theme for a hopeful coming-of-age TV anime set on a small island by the sea. 150 BPM. Starts with a bright piano and glockenspiel motif for four seconds, then driving drums, bass and bright electric guitars come in, strings swell into a soaring melody, a short drum fill at 20 seconds, and a big final chord that rings out at the end. No vocals.
Your photo, in an anime clipRedraw it first, then make it move
Add your photo to the image generator and ask for an anime redraw. Then use the redraw as the start frame of the clip.
PhotoAnime
Clip
Redraw prompt
Redraw this photo as a 2D anime illustration, not a painting and not a realistic portrait. Give both women anime features: larger expressive eyes, simplified noses, clean black line art, flat cel shading with hard two-tone shadows. Keep who they are: one with long black box braids and a mustard yellow cardigan, one with short copper red hair, freckles and a denim jacket, both laughing and holding iced coffees, leaning into each other for the selfie. Keep the rooftop, the water towers and the sunset city behind them, with a soft painted orange sky. No text.
Motion prompt
They knock their cups together so hard the coffee splashes over the rims, and both burst out laughing, one tipping her head back. The wind blows their hair across their faces. Handheld selfie shake. Sound: <the clack of the cups>, laughter, city wind. No words.
Have a video instead of a photo? Take one frame, redraw it the same way, and describe the motion from your video in the clip prompt.
Simple pricing that scales with you.
Pick the plan for how much you post. Every model on every plan. Unused credits roll over. Cancel anytime.
Plans start at $19 a month. The $19 plan makes about 25 four-second anime clips with sound at 480p a month, with commercial use and no watermark.
It depends on the model, the length and the quality. A 4-second Seedance 2.5 clip at 480p with sound costs 20 credits, and a 5-second one at 720p costs 55. The $19 Creator plan has 500 credits a month, enough for 25 of the 4-second clips. The 8-second 480p train clip on this page costs 39 credits, about $1.48 on that plan. The exact cost shows before you generate.
Make the first frame in the image generator: describe the character, the place and the anime look. Add that picture as the start frame in the video generator, write what moves and where the camera goes, and generate. You can also skip the picture and describe the whole scene in the video prompt.
Seedance 2.5 is the default. It makes 4 to 30 seconds with sound and keeps the look of your start frame. Kling 3.0 makes 3 to 15 seconds and can cut between several shots in one clip. Try the same frame on two of them and keep the one you like.
Yes, through one frame. Take a frame from your video, redraw it as anime in the image generator, then animate that picture and describe the motion from your video. The new clip follows your motion prompt, not every move of the original.
One Seedance 2.5 clip runs up to 30 seconds. For something longer, make several shots and join them in Studio, where you can also add a music track.
Make a character sheet first. Draw a key frame for each shot with the sheet as a reference, and name what must stay the same, like the yellow jacket and the compass. Then give Seedance 2.5 both pictures as references for the clip: the sheet for the character, the key frame for the place and the look. The opening on this page was made that way.
Seedance 2.5 and Kling 3.0 can make sound with the picture, such as rain, footsteps and speech. For an opening theme, make the music in Audio, up to 3 minutes, and lay it under your shots in Studio.
Yes. Describe the look in your prompt, like watercolor backgrounds, thick ink outlines or late-90s cel shading. Every paid plan includes commercial use and exports without a watermark.
