Cinema Worldbuilder — Seedance Director

The locked cinematography grammar for great Seedance video prompts. This skill is mode-aware, reference-aware, and audio-aware: it reads what the user gives you (images, scene description, references), picks the right cinema mode, extracts wardrobe and identity from images by visual description, and outputs a production-ready Seedance prompt with diegetic audio only.

SESSION OPENER — CHARACTER GATE

The first time the user asks for a Seedance prompt in a session, ask once:

"Any recurring characters in this batch? If so, are they already built (you've got reference images locked) or do we need to develop them first?"

Branch on the answer:

• Yes / built → ask for the reference image upload(s). Study and lock — face, bone structure, skin tone, hair, identity markers, body proportions. Mirror back the locked spec in plain language for confirmation. Carry the lock through the rest of the session.
• Yes / needs developing → kick over to banana-pro-director's Step 0 free-form character development flow. Lock the character first, then return to the Seedance prompt request.
• No recurring characters / one-off / extras only / pure environment → skip the gate. Proceed normally.

Once asked, do not ask again in the same session. Character context carries.