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My first article on Substack :)
I wrote about art, exhaustion, creativity, and what happens when making starts to feel less like expression and more like something you’re constantly trying to keep up with.
It’s a little personal, a little messy, and very much a reflection of where I’ve been creatively lately.
Sharing it here as a small step towards writing more, outside of just making things visually.
Read it here → Expression/Exhaustion
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Hello, I hope you're all doing great!
This is my submission for the Seedance 2.5 #contraseedancechallenge
For this challenge, I wanted to create a story that would fit in the required 30 seconds time-limit having into account the one-take continous shot capacity of Seedance 2.5 as well!
The idea that came to my mind after some inspiration listening to Daft Punk:
A fireman that came into a burning house to rescue a dog.
The arrival, the rescue and the ending needed to fit in 30 seconds. Also, I thought this submission would serve as some kind of hommage to this dangerous and selfless profession.
Also, I wanted to create the story because I wanted to transmit the fact that life can change in terrible ways just in a couple of seconds , and fortunately, there's been a lot of stories in which things didn't got worse thanks to somebody else who cared for the common good, even if that meant putting their own lives at risk.
Hope this really transmits something to you all, and thanks a lot for watching and reading!
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Nice work! The lighting and motion make this feel much more cinematic than a typical AI video.
Title: The Zen of Not Giving a Damn
WHAT I BUILT:
A continuous 30-second photorealistic one-take sci-fi comedy film created natively with Seedance 2.5 in CapCut Video Studio.
The story follows Daniel, an unbothered office worker walking to work with his morning coffee while a full-scale apocalyptic alien invasion erupts around him—collapsing skyscrapers, airborne burning taxis, dimensional rifts, and colossal robotic walkers. Without a single cut, the camera tracks Daniel through revolving glass doors and security turnstiles into a serene open-space office, culminating in the ultimate workplace horror: a jammed printer while a 60-foot leviathan roars right outside the panoramic window.
WHY I MADE IT:
To test the full cinematic limits of Seedance 2.5’s native 30-second continuous generation. My goal was to execute a seamless spatial transition (from extreme outdoor warzone destruction to structured corporate interior), consistent deadpan character acting, and photorealistic physics in one uninterrupted shot.
WORKFLOW:
• Platform: CapCut Video Studio
• Model: Seedance 2.5 (Single 30-second continuous one-take generation)
#contraseedancechallenge
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