Make five stills in Nano Banana Pro (gemini-3-pro-image), and keep each one clean so it only teaches the model one thing. 1 · The face: a chest-up portrait on a plain wall, nothing else in frame, so the model locks her identity and not the room.
2 · The product: a packshot on seamless white with the label text in quotes in your prompt (for a client, use their real packshot). 3 · The room: the location with nobody in it.
4 · The outfit: laid flat on a bed, no person. 5 · The camera: a phone-camera frame with a hand and no face, which sets the iPhone look.
Add the realism layer to every one:
The camera reference has a hand in it, not a face, on purpose. Two photoreal faces across the references confuse identity, and Seedance can refuse a run when a reference looks like a real person.
One face reference per clip, every other person described in words. Also check reference 5 for a phone bezel: ours rendered one, and an edit pass (remove the phone frame, full bleed) fixed it before it could leak into the video.
In Seedance 2.5, connect the five stills to reference_images in order 1 to 5. Leave start_frame empty: the model will not take references and a start frame together.
Settings for UGC: 9:16, 1080p, 12 seconds, audio on. Run the estimate first.
This 12-second clip was 50,374 credits, about $10, at 1080p (720p is roughly half).
Block one names what each reference is for ("Reference 3 is the location: this exact small bathroom...") and says do not redesign or relabel the product.
Block two is four timed beats, one action each:
Put any dialogue in quotes; Seedance speaks it with native audio. Block three is style, the sound (her voice close to the mic, a tap dripping, no music) and the negatives.
Keep the three blocks and swap the product, the lines and the room.
Watch the clip three times: her face across the cuts, the label in every product shot, the hands on the dropper. If the label drifts, fix the packshot and run again, never re-roll blind.
For a client, the five references ARE the brief: swap reference 2 for their product and reference 3 for their world, keep the creator, and you have a batch of on-brand UGC from one approved face. Keep a folder per client with their five references and their prompt.
This guide is the full process. The ready-made version lives inside AI Creative OS on Skool, next to every other prompt pack I post.
