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Nommo Family
A fictional character I created some time ago, and this challenge gave me the perfect opportunity to take that character further, not just by bringing it to life, but by building an entire world around it through animation.
The Nommo are a unique race of aquatic-dwelling creatures inspired by the idea of an ancient, mysterious civilization beneath the water. I started with my original character sketch and used CapCut Design Studio to develop a complete character sheet, which became the foundation for expanding the concept into a full visual world.
From there, I created a location/environment sheet designed specifically around the characters, and then used both the character and location references to build a complete 13-panel storyboard.
The most challenging part was making those 13 panels feel like one continuous shot, rather than 13 separate scenes stitched together. I wanted the final animation to have the visual consistency and camera continuity you would expect from a properly directed sequence.
This is where Seedream 5.0 Pro inside CapCut made a huge difference. I was able to make very precise adjustments to individual storyboard layers, particularly the camera positioning and angles, so that each panel connected naturally with the next. This allowed me to create a controlled visual sequence that could ultimately be transformed into a seamless 30-second, single-take video.
But one of the most important ingredients was the prompt itself.
I approached the prompt almost like a movie director would approach a shot, carefully describing the camera movement, character actions, environmental continuity, timing, and transitions. The goal was to make the AI understand that it wasn't creating 13 individual shots, but one continuous cinematic moment.
Finally, I brought the character sheets, storyboard, and a single carefully structured prompt into Seedance 2.5 in Capcut Video studio, and the result was a video that feels like a scene cropped directly from a larger movie.
I'm really happy with how the Nommo Family came together, and more importantly, with how the workflow allowed me to turn an old character idea into an entire cinematic world.
I've attached the prompt below for anyone interested in exploring the process. If you'd like to understand the nitty-gritty of the workflow, storyboard control, prompting, or character consistency, I'd be more than happy to share what I learned along the way.
Hope you enjoy the Nommo Family! 🌊
#characterdesign #
This challenge is producing some crazy ideas 😂 Yours is definitely one of the memorable ones.
Thanks @Guoshuai Zhang
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