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Shark and Clownfish Coral Reef Comedy Short

A 15-second 8-scene story in classic 1990s hand-drawn animation style, following a proud shark who gets a clam stuck on his nose and is rescued by a tiny clownfish. The prompt specifies bright underwater coral reef settings, soft painted backgrounds, expressive animal faces, and warm slapstick comedy.

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Clip specifications

ModelSeedance 2.0 — ByteDance
Duration15s
Aspect ratio16:9
CameraNot specified
LightingNot specified
Moodplayful
Difficultyintermediate
Prompt languageEnglish
CreatorSam Aoteman (@samaote)

What makes this clip work

MOOD
"playful" — mood and aesthetic tone are explicitly directed so the emotional register stays consistent from the first frame to the last.
DURATION
At 15s this clip is sized for high temporal coherence — long enough for a motion beat, short enough to stay loopable.
MODEL
Seedance 2.0 (ByteDance) provides the underlying diffusion and motion architecture. Camera, lighting and duration cues transfer across models — what differs is how literally each model interprets motion.
PROMPT LANGUAGE
The prompt is written in English. Every prompt is kept in its original language rather than translated, because the exact words are what was conditioned during generation.

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How to reuse this clip's prompt▾
  1. Open the full prompt page — the verbatim prompt text lives on the companion prompt page for this clip.
  2. Copy the text unchanged. Don't paraphrase: the phrasing here is what produced this exact motion and lighting.
  3. Paste into Seedance 2.0 with aspect ratio 16:9 and clip length 15s, then generate.
  4. Remix one variable at a time — swap the camera move or the lighting word, keep the rest, and compare the two renders side by side.
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