Previs Anchor Keyframes

Reference-guided video models (Seedance 2.0 and similar) stay dramatically closer to a CG previs when you feed them photoreal ANCHOR KEYFRAMES: still images generated from previs frames at key story beats, supplied as image references alongside the driving video. This skill is the production recipe for building anchors that actually match the CG.

The pipeline: previs render (driving video) -> image-model edits of selected previs frames (anchors) -> video model in reference mode (driving video + anchors + prompt).

1. Shade the previs for AI readability

Image and video models follow the CG far better when they can read its form: