▲ 12 r/reAPIOfficial+3 crossposts

Sunny plans world domination. Sora ate the RAM. — Seedance character comedy

A Pinky and the Brain-inspired music video with my characters Sunny and Sora. About 75% is Seedance via a custom ComfyUI node calling several API providers; the final dance and “Narf” are MiniMax H3. I made the music too. Which character sells the joke better?

u/alecubudulecu — 29 days ago
▲ 4 r/seedance_video+2 crossposts

ComfyUI pipeline: trained character LoRA → Seedance API → Klein skin upscaling

Sunny’s base images came from a ZiT LoRA I trained using ComfyUI Trainer. Video generation used the Seedance API inside ComfyUI, followed by skin upscaling with our custom Flux 2 Klein 9B nodes.

This comparison explores two prompting approaches: a borrowed UGC prompt versus detailed drama and micro-expression direction.

Which delivery feels more natural, A or B? I’m sharing both prompts so we can discuss what the directions actually change. The scripts differ too, so this compares approaches rather than isolating one variable.

Prompts:

A — borrowed UGC prompt by u/Fresh-Resolution182: https://www.reddit.com/r/Seedance_AI/comments/1w5v1p6/

B — my drama-direction prompt: https://www.reddit.com/r/Seedance_AI/comments/1w7kw5i/

Made in ComfyUI using the Seedance API. Independent AI experiment; no affiliation with LANEIGE.

u/alecubudulecu — 1 month ago

Playing with micro expressions.

Just trying out micro expression and prompting for natural speech.

u/alecubudulecu — 1 month ago

Storyboards

When I give SD 2.5 a storyboard … it adopts the art style of the storyboard. I’ve tried promoting to only use it for kinetic reference and action direction. But it keeps copying the art style. Any suggestions?

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u/alecubudulecu — 2 months ago

Stabilizing My Wife.

I used a depth map again on renders based on my wife’s model, continuing the song experiment I posted recently.

The main test here was the tracked-object stabilization, and I think it came out surprisingly well. Both clips use the same song and lyrics—one in Romanian and one in Korean. The Korean lip-sync didn’t turn out particularly well, but that wasn’t the focus of this experiment.

https://reddit.com/link/1vrah92/video/f9fp7swt71kh1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1vrah92/video/eyyu6swt71kh1/player

Bonus points if you recognize the recent artist who inspired this. 🙂

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u/alecubudulecu — 2 months ago

Stabilizing My Wife.

I used a depth map again on renders based on my wife’s model, continuing the song experiment I posted recently.

The main test here was the tracked-object stabilization, and I think it came out surprisingly well. Both clips use the same song and lyrics—one in Romanian and one in Korean. The Korean lip-sync didn’t turn out particularly well, but that wasn’t the focus of this experiment.

https://reddit.com/link/1vrah5w/video/nwa897os71kh1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1vrah5w/video/zvzcx6os71kh1/player

Bonus points if you recognize the recent artist who inspired this. 🙂

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u/alecubudulecu — 2 months ago

Stabilizing My Wife.

I used a depth map again on renders based on my wife’s model, continuing the song experiment I posted recently.

The main test here was the tracked-object stabilization, and I think it came out surprisingly well. Both clips use the same song and lyrics—one in Romanian and one in Korean. The Korean lip-sync didn’t turn out particularly well, but that wasn’t the focus of this experiment.

https://reddit.com/link/1vrah5k/video/63qrwvas71kh1/player

https://reddit.com/link/1vrah5k/video/fi4ulvas71kh1/player

Bonus points if you recognize the recent artist who inspired this. 🙂

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u/alecubudulecu — 2 months ago

Wife Goes Multilingual!

I used a depth map again on renders based on my wife’s model, continuing the song experiment I posted recently.

The main test here was the tracked-object stabilization, and I think it came out surprisingly well. Both clips use the same song and lyrics—one in Romanian and one in Korean. The Korean lip-sync didn’t turn out particularly well, but that wasn’t the focus of this experiment.

Bonus points if you recognize the recent artist who inspired this. 🙂

https://reddit.com/link/1vraap0/video/4ggi68db61kh1/player

u/alecubudulecu — 2 months ago
▲ 169 r/seedance2pro+1 crossposts

That’s my girl!

That’s my girl! Character trained on images of my wife. Depth maps based on recordings of her. Then added enhancements with seedance.

u/alecubudulecu — 2 months ago

Shocked suddenly the big H isn’t the worst company ever.

For the longest time everyone went nuts how evil the big H is. How scummy their marketing and pricing is.

Now that the rest of the market is doing similar with SD2.5 … suddenly “you know who” isn’t the worst guy anymore. Not saying they ok. But I’m not seeing thousands of posts complaining about them anymore.

At least they clearly state the unlimited use is for a finite time. Right along the sales flyer. Not in fine print or obscure messaging.

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u/alecubudulecu — 2 months ago

where did myGPTs go?

desktop app - Mac and pc - as well as iOS .... can't seem to find where "myGPTs" are. I have almost 100 different GPTs I use through web app.... and primarily use them as my interface with chatgpt... but for a few days now since updating the app I can't find them.

gpt is saying they were removed, and now to use the web only. I'm PRAYING that's not true..... that'll be a sh!tshow for me.

I pay for the service, and this is pretty much the main function I need. I use Claude for everything else.

https://preview.redd.it/qze6aydq6nhh1.jpg?width=564&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4779090f79528eee0a3fdc9780b1ec4c42b2023

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u/alecubudulecu — 2 months ago
▲ 2 r/iCloud

Videos edited won't sync to Icloud

videos I did quick edits/crop/clip - when I try to sync to iCloud/shared folders - it just hangs in "PREPARING" state. I have about 30+ videos now.... the photos app says syncing... for 3 weeks+.

I have plenty of space in iCloud (\~1.5TB... the videos are like 50MB each).
connection is fine.

I've restarted my device. logged out/in... and did a factory reset and tried with new videos. (old ones gone). even push to Airdrop doesn't work.

only thing I've found is if I REVERT to original, then sync... works. which is horrible.

Any suggestions? I saw some posts that this was an issue about 5 years ago.... but I'd assumed it was fixed by now... seems like a pretty critical feature failure.

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u/alecubudulecu — 2 months ago

Degrading video quality

When extending video with last-first frame. The video quickly degrades with each new frame input as first frame. It’s following the style and tone of THAT frame … and slowly drifting from the original quality.

How yall deal with this?

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u/alecubudulecu — 3 months ago
▲ 5 r/aiwars

Drop in sci-fi AI hype

Noticed in recent years a distinct drop in sci-fi movies/shows - having ai characters.
Maybe it’s because pro ai - think it’s not sci fi anymore and we close to having it reality.
And anti -ai- don’t find it cute anymore.

When I look back at JARVIS from iron man I remember just a few years ago thinking that’d be so cool someday.
Now it’s like —- oh. That’s kinda a thing. No we don’t have THAT exactly. But we are close enough where envisioning a world where everyone has access to something like Jarvis is almost upon us.

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u/alecubudulecu — 3 months ago
▲ 3 r/aiwars

What if it’s not ai slop?

Post some art.
Let’s go with its …. Mediocre to slightly better than meh.

People call it ai slop. Ai garbage.

Turns out it’s not ai.

What are the chances it’s still slop?

Do we double down on that this person created debatable slop/garbage?

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u/alecubudulecu — 3 months ago
▲ 16 r/aiwars

Irony of anti-ai-ai-bots

I recently came upon the realization that a VERY large volume of the anti ai comments in various ai forums …. Are bots themselves.
Like in the seedance groups. It’s for seedance people. Videos will often have a ton of negative “ai slop” comments. But when engaging with them … they almost never respond. And when you look at history … it might say they been around for years. But no actual posts or comments.

It’s weird seeing anti AI stuff coming from AI.

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u/alecubudulecu — 3 months ago