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.
Seedance 2 · 16:9 · two reference images · made with Jeremy Knox AI
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.
#seedance2 #aivideo #imagetovideo #aifilmmaking #promptengineeringSeedance takes one image. So make that one image count.
Seedance 2 image-to-video only accepts a single conditioning frame — you can't hand it two separate references. The move: bind both locks — your face and the creature design — into ONE establishing frame first (Nano Banana Pro reads multiple references), then feed that frame to Seedance and let the motion prompt drive all fifteen seconds. Both identities ride on that one frame, so they hold the whole way through.

INPUT — two reference images

OUTPUT — the energy blast, 15s later
- 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.
- 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.
- 03Upscale the keeper to 1080. Two reference images in, a 15-second cinematic battle out.
Seedance is single-image. Most people try to pass two references and fight the model — bind them into one frame first and the whole thing gets easier.
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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