Seedance 3D Cartoon

3D cartoon character short · 3D 卡通角色短片

One small anthropomorphic character carries the whole film. Spell out its looks part by part, write the style as render settings you can measure, and cut the timeline so each block holds a single action goal.

This Skill carries one prompt structure distilled from 29 human-verified Seedance cases on goodcase.ai. It is a sibling of seedance-prompt-library (all templates in one Skill); install this one when you only want this kind of clip. Do not invent structure from general video-generation knowledge: follow the structure below and ground the draft in one anchor case from references/cases.md.

Use when

• Pixar-flavoured animated shorts with a cute lead: animal chefs, baby dragons, clay-textured characters that still move smoothly.
• 中文：皮克斯味的动画短片，主角是个可爱角色：动物厨师、幼龙、黏土质感但运动平滑的小家伙。

Workflow

1. Collect inputs. Ask only for what is missing: subject or product, setting, duration, aspect ratio, whether reference images / audio exist, and which language the final prompt should be in.
2. Pick one anchor case. Read references/cases.md, choose the case closest to the request, and name it in the reply. One anchor, never an average of several.
3. Fill the structure block by block. Every block below must be present in the final prompt; an empty block is where prompts go vague.
   1. Opening line that fixes the format: duration, 3D animated short, aspect ratio, overall tone
   2. Character paragraph: looks part by part, outfit, personality, then one line that holds it steady
   3. Body split by seconds or by SCENE, one location and one action goal per block
   4. Inside each block, micro-actions and expression changes that carry the emotion
   5. Visual and render paragraph: fur, depth of field, lighting, materials, bokeh
   6. Camera and mood paragraph: push-in, tracking, close-up, plus a line of mood words
   7. Exclusion list to close: appearance changes, face distortion, extra characters, flickering, text and watermark
4. Apply the guidance and check the pitfalls (next two sections) before returning anything.
5. Return the finished prompt as one copy-pasteable block, the anchor case link, and a three-line checklist of what to verify in the generated video.

Guidance (from the cases)

• Write the character as a parts list, then add one line that freezes it. The frog chef spells out skin, eyes, mouth, cheeks, webbed feet and chef jacket, then follows with Keep the exact same frog appearance, outfit, proportions; the otter adventure uses Maintain the exact same character design, proportions, fur pattern.
• Turn the style word into render settings. The sofa bunny case asks for soft realistic fluffy fur, cinematic depth of field and creamy bokeh, then adds premium Pixar-like quality without copying any specific existing character.
• Cut the body into labelled blocks. The frog chef runs 0–5 SEC — THE RESTAURANT through 27–30 SEC — THE PAYOFF; the otter adventure uses SCENE 1 — Meadow Chase and names a place and a mood for each block.
• Write emotion as a physical beat the model can animate. The frog chef gets He moves one tiny vegetable approximately one millimeter and His eyes narrow, and the reveal reads The hedgehog's ears shoot upward, which lands better than saying the animals are amazed.
• Close with an exclusion list aimed at animation failures. The butterfly case ends on No character changes, face distortion, extra characters, outfit changes, flickering, deformed hands, and the ice-cream otter adds no distorted anatomy, no extra characters.