Yonatan Dor (Dor Brothers) Joins Us!

01 · ▶ on the show at 7:09

PJ Ace's Seedance 2.0 teasers

By PJ Ace

Some of the big hitters were already allowed to post their Seedance 2.0 work, and PJ Ace was one of the first, with teaser scenes from original work rather than borrowed IP. Chris liked the approach of putting scenes out as little teasers and trailers. Having used the model himself, he called it the Nano Banana moment for video, with Omni reference taking video, image and audio inputs at once for remarkable control. His read on Kling 3.0: better for emotion, conversation and lip sync, while Seedance wins on physics, action and sport.

“I can confirm after actually using it myself that essentially this is the Nano Banana moment for video.”Chris Branch · ▶ 8:17

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02 · ▶ on the show at 11:19

Apex

By The Dor Brothers

The most viral AI film of the moment. A mother races to reach her daughter Sophia as a so-called geomagnetic storm hits, with a Cybertruck chase and AI versions of Kash Patel and Donald Trump. Threads online insisted the lead actress was real and only the VFX were AI. Chris messaged the Dor Brothers to say we were watching, and Yonatan Dor joined to open the project: character sheets, flickering lights hiding a frame-to-frame join, and a third hand removed with Seedance's own editing. We played it again at the end so Andrew could see it.

“You really want to have all the angles because, if you're running or jumping or whatever, you want to make sure it knows how it looks like on every angle.”Yonatan Dor · ▶ 17:35

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03 · ▶ on the show at 29:00

Football club VFX ad (club not named)

Chris's proof that Seedance 2.0 will change spec ads, and this one wasn't even a spec. It's a real commission for a smaller football club: the closing shots of the players are real footage, but around 75% of it, all the VFX at the start, was made in Seedance. Chris's point is that smaller clubs can now afford the kind of VFX reels only the giants could before. If you love sport and want Gen AI work, contact your local club, just make sure your tiny team can back it up.

“Smaller clubs now could afford to have amazing VFX reels that only the giant clubs could ever afford previously.”Chris Branch · ▶ 30:38

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04 · ▶ on the show at 31:36

Seedance 2.0 emotion test

By Stefan

Stefan, a creator Chris met at Adobe, signed up through CapCut, so unlike Chris he could post his Seedance 2.0 tests. This one, his third feature on the show in three weeks, tested emotion: a woman screaming as her town is bombed, then running for a plane before it's payback time. The chat praised the facial expressions. Andrew spotted her running, stopping and running again and wondered whether that was prompted or the model worked it out. As the Dor Brothers had just shown, the answer is often in post.

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05 · ▶ on the show at 36:57

Beat-synced edits (not AI)

Not AI at all. People keep asking Chris for the most valuable skill in the Seedance era, and his answer is editing, so he pulled three one-minute edits, each built from hundreds of clips cut to the beat, with the kicks, snares and transients lined up to every cut. One used the table tennis scene from Marty Supreme, the moment that made Chris grab the series, and another cut Kung Fu Panda to a beat. Andrew's hotel wifi froze, so he caught only the first ten seconds of each.

“Probably helped that they really picked a fire beat to edit to each time as well.”Chris Branch · ▶ 43:58

06 · ▶ on the show at 44:16

The Betrothed

By Uncanny Harry

Chris's favourite of the early Seedance 2.0 wave, because of the thinking behind it: instead of ripping off Marvel, Uncanny Harry built on a story that is out of copyright and in the public domain. Lady Amelia Ashfield, promised to a mysterious lord, is courted on board a ship and begged to start a new life in America, before something rises from the water. Chris loved that the VFX shots held the same non-photoreal style, with consistent characters, lip sync and audio, all put together in a few days. Earlier, Yonatan Dor had called Harry the Guy Ritchie of AI.

“I loved how the VFX shots even kept in the same style, because it wasn't a photorealistic sort of style.”Chris Branch · ▶ 48:45

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07 · ▶ on the show at 52:35

Grandmother's wedding photos in Seedance 2.0

By Paige Piskin

While everyone else made IP battle scenes, Paige, a LinkedIn creator Chris knows from a group they're both in, fed photos of her grandmother's wedding into a Seedance 2.0 Omni reference prompt, which takes up to 10 images plus video and audio for 15 seconds of output, to see how true it would stay. Her grandmother couldn't believe how real it looked. Andrew could see magazines bringing classic issues to life, and Chris's point was that ideas once too costly to try can now start with a single prompt.

“Everyone's doing IP infringing battle scenes and then she's like, how can I upload my grandma's photos to give her a real crazy awesome experience.”Chris Branch · ▶ 53:48

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08 · ▶ on the show at 1:07:30

Planet Earth's one wish (spec ad)

Chris called this possibly one of the best concepts of the year and refused to say anything before it played, because a spec ad lives on its twist. Planet Earth is asked what it would wish for, and the ad closes on a quiet line: we can't fix everything that's wrong with our planet, but we can leave a smaller footprint. Andrew loved it and asked whether it was commissioned. Chris believed it was a pure spec ad. Flory8 in the chat: Earth is beautiful, too bad it's populated.

“This may be one of the best concepts of the year.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:07:42

09 · ▶ on the show at 1:09:04

Ramen monster ad

Found on an Asian social media platform, where Seedance had been out a few weeks longer, as proof that even a corner shop or, in this case, a ramen brand can make social content like this. Chris reckons a monster-led ad like this is half a day's work for one person, and every scene looks good. The smart move is that the monster only grunts, because lip sync is still the weak spot. Andrew thinks animation and the unbelievable will win over the mainstream before realistic AI people do, and Eric in the chat loved the colours.

“Just having him do grunts and stuff is a great little problem solve.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:10:53

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10 · ▶ on the show at 1:14:51

Heisenberg in the Matrix

The one IP mash-up Chris allowed this week, and he called it creative slop: Walter White from Breaking Bad dropped into the Matrix, arguing chemistry and physics with the rules of the system. It got a pass because it isn't a shot-for-shot remake with the faces swapped, it tells its own story. Chris's feeds are full of this stuff, and he thinks brands face a choice: embrace the fandom and the UGC, or sue the platforms allowing it. With a Chinese company behind the model, suing could be harder.

“What they haven't done is shot for shot remake, just you replace the characters. They've actually given an original storyline and narrative.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:15:14

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11 · breaking news · ▶ on the show at 1:19:23

Seedance 2.0 magic orbs

A Seedance 2.0 clip shared earlier that day that Chris felt hadn't been appreciated enough, maybe because of its ASMR-style voiceover. Travel to another world and choose one magical orb: water, earth, ice, poison and more, each with its own VFX. Chris confirmed the sound effects are generated in Seedance too, and it listens to every word of a sound prompt, usually first or second go. Andrew caught himself picking an orb, which is exactly why it works as social content. Swap the voice and it's a ready-made post.

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12 · breaking news · ▶ on the show at 1:34:18

Becoming Quicksilver with a driving video

Andrew once predicted it wouldn't be long before you could put yourself in a movie, and the hosts assumed IP holders would have to license generative worlds first. Seedance 2.0 skipped all that: take a driving video, add a still of yourself, and you're Quicksilver running around the walls. Three months earlier it was unfathomable, Chris said. It raised the question of where copyright lands when famous scenes are modified, and the bigger worry of deepfakes, which has both hosts talking about family code words.

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13 · breaking news · ▶ on the show at 1:43:47

Kill Bill-style Seedance 2.0 fight

Chris's pick to show where Seedance 2.0 is furthest ahead: action. He remembered when models wouldn't allow blood at all, and now you can prompt a fight against multiple enemies and barely question the physics, though it's far from perfect. Asked how many prompts it took, Chris worked out the 41-second piece could be three 15-second generations, or shorter snippets edited by hand. Its real edge is direction: give it angles, a swell, a sound effect or a voice and it listens, making the cuts for you.

“That exact prompt run through any other model right now wouldn't come even close.”Chris Branch · ▶ 1:46:12

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