seedance-pet-animal

Pets and animals as the lead · Pets and animals as the lead

The animal is the lead and a phone is the only camera. Lock the count to exactly one, keep the animal behaving like an animal, and let the payoff come from it closing in on the lens.

This Skill carries one prompt structure distilled from 19 human-verified Seedance cases on goodcase.ai. It is a sibling of seedance-prompt-library (all templates in one Skill); install this one when you only want this kind of clip. Do not invent structure from general video-generation knowledge: follow the structure below and ground the draft in one anchor case from references/cases.md.

Use when

• Selfie and vlog clips where a cat, dog or wild animal hijacks the frame, plus photoreal wildlife comedy built on one real animal behaviour.
• Chinese: Selfies and vlog clips photobombed by cats, dogs, or wild animals, plus realistic comedy carried by a single real animal behavior.

Workflow

1. Collect inputs. Ask only for what is missing: subject or product, setting, duration, aspect ratio, whether reference images / audio exist, and which language the final prompt should be in.
2. Pick one anchor case. Read references/cases.md, choose the case closest to the request, and name it in the reply. One anchor, never an average of several.
3. Fill the structure block by block. Every block below must be present in the final prompt; an empty block is where prompts go vague.
   1. Reference and subject block: lock the person with a reference image if anyone is on camera, and state that there is exactly one animal, the same one throughout
   2. Format block: duration, vertical 9:16, handheld front-camera selfie, indoor daylight, no grading and no beauty filter
   3. Camera block: arm drift, imperfect framing, autofocus hunting, no cuts, no zoom, no third-person operator
   4. Body split by seconds, each block pushing the animal one step further: notices, reaches, steals, climbs, attacks the lens
   5. The human reaction and a half-finished line written into the same beat
   6. Audio block: a list of on-set sounds, no music, no subtitles, no watermark
   7. Strict constraints to close: one person, one animal, no second animal, correct mirror physics, no camera operator
4. Apply the guidance and check the pitfalls (next two sections) before returning anything.
5. Return the finished prompt as one copy-pasteable block, the anchor case link, and a three-line checklist of what to verify in the generated video.

Guidance (from the cases)

• Write the count as a hard number and make that one animal physically continuous. The dog mirror case says Use exactly ONE small playful dog throughout the entire video plus No duplicate animal; the kitten vlog case itemises consistent fur pattern, eye color, size, whiskers, ears, paws.
• Give the animal its own behaviour paragraph. The macaque case opens an ANIMAL BEHAVIOR block with No talking, no human clothing, no human-like walking, and rests the whole joke on the monkey copying the hiker's head tilt.
• Buy realism with a list of camera defects. The cat day-in-the-life vlog asks for Natural handheld shake, Occasional autofocus hunting and Natural front-camera lens distortion, then bans No cinematic camera movements.
• Escalate beat by beat and land on the lens. The dog case closes with Its nose fills a large part of the frame, the image losing focus and regaining it; the rainy-day kitten ends with a paw at the corner of the lens and the clip cutting off mid-laugh.
• Keep the audio diegetic. The cat vlog's closing audio block lists only meows, purring, chirping and footsteps and states No background music; the dog case says Natural room ambience only.

Pitfalls

• Leaving the count open. A second animal or a duplicated reflection shows up mid-clip; the dog case pins it down with Exactly one woman. Exactly one dog. and No duplicate reflection.
• Letting the animal talk or walk like a person. The clip slides into cartoon territory; the macaque case bans it outright and puts the joke back on real animal behaviour.
• Writing full sentences for the human. The performer has to laugh and speak at once and the lip sync falls apart; cut the line to a broken half like You little—.
• Adding cinematic moves and colour grading out of habit. The phone-footage feel dies immediately; write no cinematic lighting, no color grading, no cuts, no zoom.

Language

Reply in the user's language. The prompt itself can stay in English when that is what the user's Seedance workflow expects; ask if unclear. The Chinese version of this structure follows.

Chinese: Pets and animals as the lead

The animal is the true lead, and the camera is just handed to a phone. The count is locked to exactly one, the animal only does what animals do, and the punchline is left to it inching closer to the lens step by step.

Structure:

1. Reference and subject paragraph: if a person appears, use a reference image to lock the person, then write in exactly one animal, the same one from start to finish
2. Format paragraph: duration, vertical 9:16, handheld front-facing selfie, indoor natural light, no color grading and no beauty filter
3. Camera paragraph: arm drift, slightly off-center framing, autofocus hunting, no cuts, no zoom, no third-party camera position
4. The main text is split by seconds, and each segment makes the animal advance one step further: notices, reaches out a paw, snatches, climbs onto the shoulder, lunges at the lens
5. The person's reaction and a half-finished line are written in the same beat
6. Audio paragraph: on-site sound list, no music, no subtitles, no watermark
7. Strict constraints at the end: one person and one animal, no second animal allowed, mirror physics correct, no photographer in frame

Key points:

• Write the count as one hard number, and write that one animal as physically continuous. The dog photobomb one is Use exactly ONE small playful dog throughout the entire video, plus No duplicate animal; the kitten vlog one also names item by item consistent fur pattern, eye color, size, whiskers, ears, paws。
• Give the animal its own behavior rules paragraph. The macaque one has an ANIMAL BEHAVIOR block,No talking, no human clothing, no human-like walking, and all the humor is bet on the monkey tilting its head along with the hiker.
• Realism is bought with a camera-flaw checklist. The cat day-in-the-life vlog wants Natural handheld shake、Occasional autofocus hunting、Natural front-camera lens distortion, then bans No cinematic camera movements。
• The action escalates beat by beat, and finally lands on the lens. The dog one's last segment says Its nose fills a large part of the frame, the image goes out of focus first and then finds it again; the rainy-day kitten one has a paw reaching into the corner of the lens, and the video cuts off amid laughter.
• Keep only on-site sound. The audio paragraph at the end of the cat vlog lists only meows, purring, chirping, footsteps, and writes in No background music; the dog one says Natural room ambience only。

Common pitfalls:

• Leave the count unwritten. A second animal or an extra reflection will appear in the middle of the video; the dog one pins it down with Exactly one woman. Exactly one dog. and No duplicate reflection .
• Let the animal talk or walk like a human. The video will slide toward animation; the macaque one directly bans these and pushes the humor back to real animal behavior.
• Write complete long lines for the person. The actor has to laugh while saying them, the lip sync will definitely fall apart, so change it to a half-line interrupted by laughter, like You little— this kind that breaks off halfway.
• Casually add cinematic camera movement and color grading. The phone-shot texture is gone immediately; write no cinematic lighting, no color grading, no cuts, no zoom.

Copy-ready lead-in / Copy-ready lead-in

For users who would rather paste into a chat model than run this Skill, hand them this line above the structure:

I want a handheld selfie video where my pet steals the shot. [My pet is a chubby orange cat with a small notch in her right ear.] [While I film a selfie she climbs onto my shoulder and ends up pressing her nose against the lens.] Using the prompt template below, rewrite it into one ready-to-use Seedance video prompt for me:

I want to make a handheld selfie video of a pet photobombing, [my pet is a chubby orange cat with a small notch on its right ear], [it climbs all the way up to my shoulder while I'm taking a selfie, and finally shoves its nose right up to the camera]. Please use the prompt template below to help me rewrite it into a Seedance video prompt that can be used directly:

Notes

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