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On July 1, 2026, Russian rooftop climbers Angela Nikolau and Ivan Beerkus climbed the antenna/spire of the Empire State Building and unfurled a massive black flag carrying a powerful message:
“When the power of love beats the love of power, the world knows peace.”
But the story didn’t end there.
During their descent, Ivan proposed to Angela—and she said YES.
Moments later, the mood changed. A police helicopter arrived, NYPD officers responded, and the couple was eventually taken into custody.
This cinematic 3D animated short is inspired by that extraordinary real-life event.
One climb. One message. One proposal. One unexpected ending.
🖤 Power of love > Love of power.
#EmpireStateBuilding #AngelaNikolau #IvanBeerkus #Skywalkers #CinematicAnimation #3DAnimation #AIAnimation #Peace #Storytelling
Love how you used Seedance here. The consistency across the whole sequence is impressive.
THANKS.
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The idea of this video is that we can be different and try on different roles. But the main thing is to remain ourselves!
How I made it:
Formulated the idea and wrote the script
Broke down the script into timelines and detailed each scene
Validated and generated the required prompt in Claude over several iterations with manual adjustments
Generated the video in CapCut Seedance 2.5, also over several iterations (Seedance 2.5, Text to video, 30s, 720p, 16:9).
You can see final prompts, and video of individual stages of my work here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cdhl1PFYpxHgo_Wr7sRKJTjtG_zIK052EpvPCuqK1y0/edit?usp=sharing
Post on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcCDDPlMDo8/?igsh=MTNwZGFhb2M5NXhkeA==
Thank you all for your attention!
#contraseedancechallenge #CapCutCPP
Wow! You did a great job!
One-take cinematic AI film production
This is an FPV drone flight through a city during a solar eclipse.
The camera moves from a crowded square to a football stadium without any cuts or transitions. I wanted to show how people react when something unusual happens, and routine becomes ritual
As the eclipse shadow advances, people who don't know each other start moving in sync — looking up at the same time, adjusting their position together, reacting as one group. The drone follows this rhythm from quiet individual moments in the city to a massive collective gasp in the stadium
Built in CapCut Video Studio with Seedance 2.5.
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For this challenge, I created a cinematic story about a young lighthouse apprentice who becomes the last hope for a fleet trapped at sea during a massive storm.
I used Seedance 2.5 to create the dramatic visuals: an ancient coastal city, dark storm clouds, heavy rain, huge crashing waves, fishing boats struggling toward the harbor, and the lighthouse flame slowly dying. The key moment shows the apprentice climbing the tower alone with the last jar of oil while everyone else has taken shelter.
I then edited the scenes together in CapCut, adding cinematic pacing, transitions, sound effects, storm ambience, and emotional music to make the story feel more immersive.
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