ByteDance's Seedance 2.0 sits at the top of the Artificial Analysis leaderboard and is the strongest image-to-video model available: give it a reference frame plus a structured prompt and it produces the most character-consistent sequences of any current model. It is also the most doctrine-driven prompter on this list — block order genuinely matters.
How to prompt Seedance 2.0 with JSON
Seedance responds best to a strict block order: CAMERA → SUBJECT → ACTION → ENVIRONMENT → LIGHTING → STYLE, which is exactly how our templates order the JSON on the Seedance tab. Keep the camera block to a shot type plus a single movement — stacked movements visibly degrade output. Six tight blocks beat twelve loose ones.
Image-to-video is the superpower
For character-driven content, generate a strong keyframe first (any image model), then feed it to Seedance with your JSON as the motion direction. This is currently the most reliable character-consistency workflow in AI video, and it is how most long-form AI content is actually being chained in 2026.
Where to run it
Dreamina (ByteDance's own app) has first-party access; Higgsfield, fal.ai and WaveSpeed host it via API. Prompts written for Kling 3.0 generally run here unchanged, so test on whichever is cheaper for you that week.
Prompting rules for Seedance 2.0
Seedance responds best to a strict block order: CAMERA → SUBJECT → ACTION → ENVIRONMENT → LIGHTING → STYLE. The JSON below is ordered to match.
Keep the camera block to a shot type plus one movement — stacking movements degrades output.
Strongest image-to-video model available: pair this JSON with a reference frame for character-consistent sequences.
Prompts written for Kling 3.0 generally work here unchanged.
Example template, Seedance 2.0-shaped
The Seedance 2.0 tab shows this site's block order for the model. Browse all 422 templates.
Google · duration 8s · 720p, 1080p, or 4K · audio native · verified 2026-07-10 · click any value to edit
{
"scene": "Downtown street at golden hour, soft haze",
"subject": "Young woman with brown hair and denim jacket",
"action": "Walks toward camera through light traffic",
"camera": {
"lens_mm": 35,
"movement": "dolly_in",
"movement_speed": "slow"
},
"style": "Cinematic, natural light, gentle contrast",
"audio": "Soft indie guitar",
"technical": {
"aspect_ratio": "16:9",
"seed": 137421,
"lock_identity": true,
"lock_style": true,
"negative_prompt": "extra people, text overlays, hands",
"duration_seconds": 8,
"fps": 24,
"creativity": 0.4
}
}
Veo 3.1 follows structured prompts unusually well — lock camera, lighting and audio as separate JSON fields and it respects each one.
Native audio: describe dialogue, ambient sound and music directly in the audio field.
Kuaishou · duration provider-dependent, commonly up to 15s · 1080p HD; native 4K modes advertised by Kling · audio native sound generation · verified 2026-07-10 · click any value to edit
{
"subject": "Young woman with brown hair and denim jacket",
"action": "Walks toward camera through light traffic",
"scene": "Downtown street at golden hour, soft haze",
"camera": {
"lens_mm": 35,
"movement": "dolly_in",
"movement_speed": "slow"
},
"style": "Cinematic, natural light, gentle contrast",
"audio": "Soft indie guitar",
"technical": {
"aspect_ratio": "16:9",
"seed": 137421,
"lock_identity": true,
"lock_style": true,
"negative_prompt": "extra people, text overlays, hands",
"duration_seconds": 8,
"fps": 24,
"creativity": 0.4
}
}
Kling 3.0 reasons about the scene like a director — write the action field as a shot note, not a keyword list.
Multi-shot is the signature feature: split the action into "Shot 1: … Shot 2: …" inside the action field for cuts within one generation.
ByteDance · duration provider-dependent · 720p/1080p; some hosts expose 4K tiers · audio native synchronized audio on supported hosts · verified 2026-07-10 · click any value to edit
{
"camera": {
"lens_mm": 35,
"movement": "dolly_in",
"movement_speed": "slow"
},
"subject": "Young woman with brown hair and denim jacket",
"action": "Walks toward camera through light traffic",
"scene": "Downtown street at golden hour, soft haze",
"style": "Cinematic, natural light, gentle contrast",
"audio": "Soft indie guitar",
"technical": {
"aspect_ratio": "16:9",
"seed": 137421,
"lock_identity": true,
"lock_style": true,
"negative_prompt": "extra people, text overlays, hands",
"duration_seconds": 8,
"fps": 24,
"creativity": 0.4
}
}
Seedance responds best to a strict block order: CAMERA → SUBJECT → ACTION → ENVIRONMENT → LIGHTING → STYLE. The JSON below is ordered to match.
Keep the camera block to a shot type plus one movement — stacking movements degrades output.
Alibaba · duration workflow-dependent · 720p open-weights TI2V · audio none in base text/image-to-video pipeline · verified 2026-07-10 · click any value to edit
{
"subject": "Young woman with brown hair and denim jacket",
"action": "Walks toward camera through light traffic",
"scene": "Downtown street at golden hour, soft haze",
"camera": {
"lens_mm": 35,
"movement": "dolly_in",
"movement_speed": "slow"
},
"style": "Cinematic, natural light, gentle contrast",
"technical": {
"aspect_ratio": "16:9",
"seed": 137421,
"lock_identity": true,
"lock_style": true,
"negative_prompt": "extra people, text overlays, hands",
"duration_seconds": 8,
"fps": 24,
"creativity": 0.4
}
}
Wan 2.2 is the latest version with genuinely open, downloadable weights. "Wan 2.5/2.6/2.7" are hosted API-only versions on commercial platforms.
Open-weights Wan 2.2 has no audio track — drop the audio field or move sound design to post.
Runway · duration 2-10s · 720p; aspect-ratio-specific pixel sizes · audio none in video generation · verified 2026-07-10 · click any value to edit
{
"subject": "Young woman with brown hair and denim jacket",
"action": "Walks toward camera through light traffic",
"camera": {
"lens_mm": 35,
"movement": "dolly_in",
"movement_speed": "slow"
},
"scene": "Downtown street at golden hour, soft haze",
"style": "Cinematic, natural light, gentle contrast",
"technical": {
"aspect_ratio": "16:9",
"seed": 137421,
"lock_identity": true,
"lock_style": true,
"negative_prompt": "extra people, text overlays, hands",
"duration_seconds": 8,
"fps": 24,
"creativity": 0.4
}
}
Runway exposes camera controls in the UI — use the camera block here as your settings checklist rather than prompt text.
Gen-4.5 excels with reference images: the subject field doubles as your reference-tagging description.