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I've been spending months finding the best prompts and ways to use C Dance 2. I've done all the hard work for you and gathered them together in this video. I'll also be looking at the incredibly detailed C Dance 4K [music] model.
Okay, let's get into it. I will be going through my examples very quickly, so make sure to not miss any. And I have actually created a free prompts document that you can find down below, which contains all of the prompts in this video if you do want to try them out for yourself.
I've been doing all of my testing within Higgsfield AI and at the time of recording they just released C Dance 2 4K. So, let's have a look at some of the example 4K footage. Just looking through these sample clips here, you can see there is a definite bump in resolution and just overall detail in these shots. I find especially for the animation videos, to me it looks like this 4K mode has got to that quality where you could probably project it onto a cinema [music] screen and it will look really good. I mean, just look at how sharp and clear this animation video is. It's absolutely stunning.
But, the downside is it does cost a lot more credits. And this is where I think this 4K mode will separate a lot of different users. Because a lot of people won't actually need 4K if they're just making videos for say social media. But, if you are doing more professional projects that will be put up onto a bigger screen, then this 4K mode, while it is expensive, I think will benefit a lot of filmmakers.
I haven't done too many generations using 4K mode, but I did do a few short clips as you can see here, which I also generated with the other models as well. And this is where C Dance 2 is quite special as we have so many different models to use now. I'm extremely impressed with the clarity from this 4K mode. And here's more examples of my 4K video tests. >> [music] [screaming] >> Oh! >> [screaming] [music] [groaning] [music] [groaning and screaming] >> So, if you're looking to create the highest quality AI videos out there, then this is the model to use. As you can see, they are absolutely incredible.
So, let's get into the best prompts and use cases for SeaDance 2. I may not show all of the prompts on screen as some of them are quite long, so make sure to download the prompts document down below to check those out.
For this test, I was inspired by the FIFA World Cup, which is happening right now at the time of recording this video. I wanted to create a dynamic anime style video focusing on one of the players. So, I needed a character sheet image first, and this is the prompt I used with GPT image 2, and it created this awesome character sheet of Bellingham. Then, I generated a video prompt using Claude, which you can find in the description down below. Now, the cool thing I did within Claude, I said to make the prompt around the recent game that England played. So, it found out all of those stats and then put it into the prompt. >> [music] [screaming] >> I was really impressed with how that turned out. I think the anime style works really well for this kind of dynamic football shot.
You can create some incredible animations using C Dance 2. So, I created these characters and using this prompt it created this story. >> Don't worry, I studied the traps. >> You also triggered them last time. >> It's a grammarian. >> Next time, I lead. >> Then what you can do is use that video as reference to create more stories with these characters that keep the same look and voices. So, you would upload that video as a reference and then at the start of the prompt say use the same characters and voices with this story. Then you paste in the prompt for the next part of the story or just a different story completely. >> Don't touch it. >> But what if it's the good kind of button? >> Okay, MAYBE NOT GOOD. >> [screaming] >> And it's amazing that it keeps the same animation style and voices from that reference video. So, you could do a complete cartoon series using this exact method. And you can keep extending your story by using this prompt here.
This is a really cool prompt to kind of choreograph a fight scene. So, I generated this image in GPT Image 2. And as you can see it's laid out the fight scene into different shots. Then I generated images of two different characters and when uploaded all together along with a pretty detailed prompt, C Dance 2 gave me this video. So, this is a really good method if you have a detailed choreographed scene and it does a really good job at sticking to those shots.
In this example here, I've got this rough animation video of a fight scene. Then I uploaded that video along with these two character reference images, then when using this custom prompt, it actually uses those characters and a background of your choice using the same base animation from that video. I could see this being really useful for animators, so you could create your kind of basic animation in say Blender or something with some very basic character models, then using that with your characters of choice, you get some really professional-looking outputs. It's a really fun method to play around with and it seems to follow the animation pretty well.
I also came across this really cool sticker prompt. So using this image, then taking it into C dance 2, I used this prompt. So as you can see, the hand comes in and perfectly peels out the person from the image. It actually has that tactile feeling of a sticker. It's pretty cool. Then I thought, could I try this sticker effect but in a video of myself? Now, it's not perfect, but I think it's still got an interesting look to it and I'm sure one of you viewers could perfect this effect. So if anyone has a better method on doing this, then please leave your prompt in the comment section down below.
And this effect here where I had this photograph and I wanted it to be animated in the person's hands and then they start bending the photograph and it starts to crease. It's a very simple effect, but I think the prompt worked really well. It also works really well for changing the whole environment, your clothing and the lighting as well. So in this example here, I'm just walking around looking at my phone and I wanted to change the environment to make it look like I was in an old building by the sea wearing a rain jacket and it looks incredible. The clothing change is perfect. It's got that really wet look to it and even the lightning strike outside the window lights up the environment as well. Yeah, it's very impressive. And here's another version where I'm in some kind of futuristic city wearing a see-through raincoat. I'm really impressed with the see-through raincoat on this one as it's actually kept all the detail from the t-shirt I'm wearing underneath that rain jacket perfectly.
And in this example here, I'm kind of holding on to something and then I've got my camera tracking my face as [snorts] I move, and I wanted to see if I could turn it into a kind of graveyard at night and change that bed post I'm holding in the reference video to a gravestone and change the lighting to moonlight as well. So, it made this video. It's nailed the movement and the performance from the original video. Then I wanted to take it a step further and add some zombies emerging out of the ground behind me. And it gave me this. The performance is perfect and the zombies popping up look so good. I was really happy with how this one turned out.
And here's a slightly different reference video where I kind of stand up and walk around, and I wanted to create a video where I was a soldier in the war and I'm just walking around this battlefield. Now, this one does change the camera angle a bit, but it's kept that same performance. >> What is going on? This is crazy. >> So, you can have a lot of fun with using your own performance and I would urge you to get creative with the camera movements and adding different props in as well.
This next effect I absolutely love and this was inspired from the creator Karen X on Instagram. As you can see, it creates this really cool effect where the head is locked off at the center frame with everything moving around it. Now, to do this, I just uploaded this image of my cat and said straight on view of the cat's face, the cat is mid run, close-up with wide angle lens. And it gave me this image. Then I ran it through with this prompt and I got these videos. I know the physics do go a bit weird in places, but it's just a really cool-looking video. And then I got some ideas sparking of other ways I could do this effect. So, I tried some parkour and yep, it looks like I'm very serious running over this rooftop. And here I was doing some skydiving. It does a really good job at keeping that locked off face stabilized while everything else has that kind of a fish eye lens look to it.
Then I thought I don't necessarily have to focus on a face. So, I had the thought of focusing on a mug of coffee as they're trying to deliver it to someone in the office. So, I generated this image and here's the video SORA dance 2 made. And here's some other examples. I've got some running ones and like you can see you can do some really trippy things with the environments as you're going through them. And here I'm holding a ticking time bomb. This one's pretty crazy. It's me being dragged while I'm in the snow. It's got a real visceral feel to it. And then I wanted to emulate a kind of horror shot where I'm getting dragged along the floor. Then I tried some nature ones and I really like how this owl and the lion one came out. You get that really cool reflection of the prey it's hunting as well in the eyeball.
And for this prompt here I wanted to do a really dynamic movement where I'm holding a flare, moving around, and then doing a title reveal at the end. So, I created this image first showing the different movements I wanted in the video. Then uploading these two reference images with a pretty hefty prompt, it creates this really cool dynamic video. It's nailed most of the movements that I wanted. It's got really nice smoke simulation in this one. I love at the end how it kind of pauses and then does that kind of title reveal at the end. SORA dance 2 works really well for story-driven narrative videos. So, for this one I've generated images of different characters and I've got these storyboards for each scene. Then when using these images as references along with the prompt, SORA dance 2 does a really good job at creating the video from that storyboard.
>> Synthesia is incredible for motion graphics. So, I've created a motion design skill that you can download and use within Higgs Field supercomputer. So, if we click on to supercomputer here, I've made a custom skill all about motion design. So, if I go to this plus symbol, then go to skills, and there we go. You can see motion design. So, if you click on that, then you type in what kind of motion design video that you want, it will go through all the knowledge from that skill it's got, and then start generating a video with a motion design look to it. So, I tried it out with a very simple prompt. I said, create a cool paper cutout style motion graphic for the FIFA World Cup 2026. And if you scroll down, you can see all of the thinking that it's doing. It's doing this all automatically. And if you come down here, you can see auto run without approval, or you can chat to it along the process if you want to kind of check things before it goes ahead and makes them. But for this one, I was just like, hey, you handle all of it. Just give me the video at the end. And you can see it generated these images. So, it uses these images then in the final video. And then this is the video it created. It's very simple, but to me, it looks really professional, and I actually see that being used on the FIFA World Cup social media page and it absolutely nailed the motion graphics brief that I gave it.
This skill works really well for product design as well. So, I wanted to create a video showcasing a new electric car. I gave it this prompt here and the video looks great. And this one is an ad for the One Ring, which it looks pretty awesome. So, if you do want to test out this skill to create some motion graphics or product design videos, I've left it in the prompts document in the comments down below with instructions on how to use it.
This is a really cool prompt to do a kind of a slow motion bullet time effect. For this one, I have a two-step image process. You want to create an image with a bit of chaos around it. So, objects flying in the air. So, I have this image of a fishmonger in Japan and he's slipped and the tuna and ice has gone everywhere. Then the second step to this is using this prompt to create a white border around that image. But as you can see, it's kept some of the objects within that white frame to have that kind of foreground, middle ground, and background perspective. Then using this prompt in C Dance 2 with that image, it creates this really nice slow motion bullet time effect.
C Dance 2 is incredible at doing in-painting VFX shots. So, for this one, I've just got this video of my arm. I uploaded that video and then prompted it for after 0.2 seconds metal armor magnetically attaches itself to the arm and hand in video one. Man, I'm pretty stoked with how it looks. So, in this one, I uploaded that reference video of my arm and prompted it with the arm and hands in video one start to get covered in shiny black goo. Black tendrils crawl up the arm. And I love the animation of those black tendrils going down the arm and it's kept the exact movement from the reference video.
Then pushing things even further with some really cool VFX, I've got this shot of myself just kind of pretending that something's coming out of my my So, I created this image here, then uploaded that image with the video, and I was blown away with the result. It's got that really cool Battlefield background, and it's timed the beam coming out of the chest perfectly. As it knows to do the beam not straight away, but wait until he kind of charges up. I was really impressed with how this one came out. And for this next one, I've got this video of me with a kind of badly made cardboard device on my wrist, and I didn't actually make a reference image for this one. All I did was upload that reference video, and then used this prompt, and Seed ants 2 absolutely nailed it. So, it's got the nice light coming from the device lighting up my face a bit. The background looks great. The lighting's changed in a believable way. Yeah, I think this one looks really clean.
These set of prompts are kind of wacky, but they're pretty fun as well. So, I used this reference sheet of myself, and along with this 90s Hong Kong martial arts film kind of prompt. They are quite long prompts, but make sure to find them in the prompts document down below. As you can see, it's got that kind of low shutter look to it, and you get that crazy facial of that guy getting hit. Definitely got a lot of dynamic action in this one.
You can have a lot of fun with in and out frames using Seed ants 2. Now, this example here is very freaky. It did a really good job at animating between the two frames. >> [groaning] >> And using this prompt here, it's a really cool technique on how to do a interactive clothes swap within your videos. So, as you can see, I've got this video of me in my garden, then I generated this image where my clothes are kind of next to me floating in the air. Then I just gave it this simple prompt, and it's actually kept the performance from my original video, but it's added in that really cool animation where it kind of magically puts the clothes onto myself.
Seed ants 2 is absolutely incredible for doing VFX work. So, you can use your own shots and place up things into the footage. So, I've got this shot here where I put a blue X on the floor and kind of recorded around it, and then got Seed ants 2 to place some gold bars down. Now, it's very simple, but I think it looks great. It's nailed the reflections and it's just a really easy and simple way on how to add objects into your scene. Now, in this one, I've got this video of myself opening my car and I wanted to create a really creepy effect. So, I prompted it to add a creepy doll inside of the car when I open the door and it absolutely nailed that creepy tone even with the head of the doll turning as I open it. It's really effective. And in this effect here, I wanted it to seem like the ground was crumbling around where I was walking. So, these are really nice subtle effects that you can add into your video and they do have a kind of believable factor because you're using real footage with them.
Here's another weird one where I recorded myself checking inside of my mouth and I got C Dance 2 to add a weird alien tongue, which is very disturbing. You can even turn yourself into different styles as well. So, I had this idea of turning myself into a claymation style and I wanted to change my face into a really kind of wacky expression that was kind of over the top. So, I've got this video of me just walking through my garden and I generated this image where I'm in a claymation style and as you can see, the face is absolutely wild. It's got huge eyes, massive mouth and I was thinking, will C Dance 2 be able to kind of animate it in a way that keeps this look but with my own performance? And I was blown away with the results. Plus, loads of tips and tricks you won't want to miss. Okay, let's get into it. So, as you can see, the claymation animated style and it's managed to animate perfectly with my lip sync and performance. To be honest, I'm blown away with how good this looks. It actually does look like a kind of Aardman Wallace and Gromit style claymation, the way the face is animated anyway. This has actually got me thinking of some ideas on how I could create a kind of animated story using this technique. And here's a montage of some of my other favorite clips.
>> So, even though Sea Dogs 2 has been out for a while, there's still so many awesomely creative ways on how to use it. Now, don't forget to download the free prompts document down below, which contains all the prompts used in this video if you do want to test them out for yourself. If you have a favorite prompt that you want to share, then feel free to leave it in the comments section down below, or you can drop it into my free school community if you want to. If you've enjoyed this video, consider giving it a like and subscribing to my channel. My name is Jack, and I will see you in the next one.