Storyboard to video, and beating a copyright filter

A test of Seedance's storyboard-to-video path. No previz this time, just an eight-panel stick-figure storyboard and a character reference. The story: a man gardening takes a call, suits up, and launches out of his backyard. It also has generated audio, and it is upscaled to 4K with Topaz.

The interesting part was the fight. Seedance's copyright filter kept rejecting the man-becomes-machine transformation no matter how I redesigned the suit. The fix was to stop showing it the whole arc in one clip. I rendered the setup and the takeoff as two separate videos, neither of which trips the filter on its own, and cut them together so the hard cut carries the transformation.

The second clip is the first attempt, before that fix. The suit read too close to a game character, and a stray label from the storyboard leaked into the frame.