How the girl-and-cat short was made: 9 storyboard frames with Nano Banana 2, then one Seedance 2.0 call that turns the whole board into a multi-shot animated film. The full method with prompts.
Before any AI: write your story as 9 one-line beats with a setup, a problem and a payoff. Ours: girl paints, cat ruins it, cat secretly paints her portrait at night, morning reveal, hug. The story does the work, not the model.
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Storyboard with Nano Banana 2
Generate frame 1 (the hero) with your style + full character description. Then generate frames 2-9 with the edit endpoint, passing the hero image as reference and repeating the character description every time. That is what keeps the same girl, same cat, same room in all 9 frames.
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One Seedance call makes the film
Feed all 9 frames into Seedance 2.0 reference-to-video (it accepts up to 9 reference images) with a prompt that lists the shots IN ORDER. It plans the cuts, camera moves and acting itself. 15 seconds, then a Topaz 3x upscale for the 4K master.
The style block that keeps every frame consistent (copy it)
3D animated feature film still, modern Pixar-like animation, big expressive eyes, soft subsurface scattering skin, warm cinematic global illumination, rich vibrant palette, high-end 3D render, 16:9 cinematic frame. No text, no words, no watermarks.
+ repeat your exact character description in EVERY panel prompt
Want this running for you?
Build it step by step inside AI Creative OS, with me in the thread.
