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Two images. One prompt.
A 300-meter ocean god.

The exact Seedance 2 workflow behind the Leviathan Protocol reel — two reference images (your face + a creature design) bound into one frame, then animated across fifteen seconds. Watch it, copy it, run your own. No email.

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Seedance 2 · 16:9 · two reference images · made with Jeremy Knox AI

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THE LEVIATHAN PROTOCOL — two-reference workflow

=== STEP 1 · ESTABLISHING FRAME ===
Model: Nano Banana Pro (image) · two reference images: your face + the creature design sheet

Photorealistic cinematic establishing frame, 16:9. A lone tactical airborne hero (use reference 1 for the exact face/identity) in a black tactical jacket, three-quarter rear, hovering low over a violent storm ocean. Ahead rises a colossal water-and-mist elemental (use reference 2 for the design): a ~300m translucent ocean-water body draped in a flowing mist shroud, glowing electric-blue veins, a bright blue vortex core in its chest, glowing eyes, whirlpool lower body, water cascading off its arms. Dark overcast storm sky, heavy mist, crashing waves. Steel blue, charcoal gray, deep ocean black, cold white highlights. Single hero, single colossus, no text — a water spirit fully formed of water and mist, no bare skin.

=== STEP 2 · MOTION (Seedance 2 · image-to-video) ===
Start image: the establishing frame from Step 1 · 16:9 · 720p · 15s · genre: epic

One continuous storm-ocean battle.
THE APPROACH — the hero accelerates low over the waves toward the colossus; hold a beat on its glowing face.
THE THREAT — the colossus swings a massive water fist; the hero barely twists aside as it smashes the ocean beside him.
THE CHARGE — the hero hovers back and gathers a bright blue energy orb between his hands.
THE STRIKE — he fires a concentrated energy beam across the gap into the colossus's chest core; it detonates on the core and the chest ruptures. The hero stays at range — he never touches or passes through the body.
THE AFTERMATH — the colossus disperses into water; pull back to an aerial wide as ripple waves spread and the lone hero hovers above the battlefield.

Preserve the hero's exact identity and the elemental's design throughout. Steel blue, charcoal, deep ocean black, cold white highlights, bright blue energy.
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// THE TRICK

Compose the establishing frame first. So make that one image count.

This workflow combines a face reference and creature design into one establishing image before animation. That is a composition choice, not a Seedance-wide input limit: Seedance 2 supports multimodal references, while provider endpoints may expose different controls. Use the inputs your endpoint supports and review both identities throughout the result.

Two reference inputs — a face photo and a sea-monster design sheet

INPUT — two reference images

Result — the hero firing an energy beam into the water colossus's glowing core

OUTPUT — the energy blast, 15s later

  1. 01Bind your two references — a clear face photo + your creature/subject design — into one establishing frame with Nano Banana Pro (or any multi-reference image model). One frame, both subjects, your composition.
  2. 02Feed that frame into Seedance 2 image-to-video as the start image with the motion prompt above. 16:9, 720p, 15s, genre: epic, audio on.
  3. 03Upscale the keeper to 1080. Two reference images in, a 15-second cinematic battle out.
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A combined establishing image can make the intended composition easier to communicate. Multi-reference support varies by provider; consult the Seedance 2 documentation and your selected endpoint.

If your creature reads as a nude figure, the safety filter kills the render. Describe it as a shrouded water-and-mist elemental (it matched my reference better anyway) and it sails through. And blast the core from range — a melee 'dive in' tends to phase the hero through the body.

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