Seedance 2.5 style test: pendulum smashes a wine glass in slow motion on a black stage (20 s)
Practical-effects macro: a steel pendulum drawn back, a glass of red wine shattering, wine and shards flying, a pooled splash on white silk and a closing wide of the plinth.
Task: A single slow-motion impact shown in eight locked-off shots.
Outcome: succeeded
0.84 s: Pendulum bob and a wine glass on a white-draped plinth against black.
4.18 s: The glass cracked and bursting with wine, bob at the right edge.
5.85 s: Shards and wine in the air.
7.52 s: Splash and shards above the plinth.
9.20 s: Top-down splash and ring on the silk.
12.54 s: Macro of liquid drops and shards on the silk.
15.88 s: Silk edge and a drip at the plinth.
17.56 s: Wide of the plinth with a stemmed glass of wine back near the pendulum.
Intent vs result: The impact beats read clearly in the sampled frames; the last wide shows a stemmed wine glass again although it shattered earlier, so the ending reads as a reset or a different glass and the sampled frames do not settle which.
Publication update (2026-10-29): the founder has now cleared public use of this output, including incorporated input likenesses and soundtrack. Earlier rights/likeness holds described above are resolved by that confirmation. Reference-input files remain private. Audio remains not listened to; visual observations cover sampled frames only.
Structured fields
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"inputs": [
{
"description": "1 linked image input(s) recorded in the generation metadata (details withheld)."
}
],
"run_at": "2026-08-09T16:09:11Z",
"metrics": [
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"name": "output_duration",
"unit": "s",
"value": 20.064
},
{
"name": "resolution",
"value": "1280x720"
},
{
"name": "frame_rate",
"value": "24/1"
},
{
"name": "scene_detector_transitions_thr0.30",
"value": 7
},
{
"name": "black_intervals",
"value": "none"
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],
"procedure": "Seedance 2.5, one reference still that defines the art style only, a long structured prompt (a genre look, one scene and a shot-by-shot format), 20 s, audio requested, no seed set. One of a series of genre style tests run on 9 August 2026 (UTC); this is the third set of twenty from that series. Sampled inspection: 12 timestamped frames from 0.84 s to 19.23 s of a 20.06 s file, plus ffmpeg scene detection at threshold 0.30 and blackdetect.",
"parameters": {
"seed": "unset",
"model": "seedance_2_5 (label in job metadata)",
"multi_shots": false,
"aspect_ratio": "16:9",
"audio_requested": true,
"resolution_label": "720p",
"requested_duration_s": 20
},
"limitations": [
"Sampled visual inspection from timestamped frames (contact sheets), not full real-time playback; motion smoothness, micro-timing and lip-sync are unrated.",
"Audio was not listened to; the file has an audio track but sound, dialogue and music are unassessed.",
"Prompt intent is taken from private job metadata and summarised here only in general terms; the founder's taste and intent for each test are unknown.",
"Single historical generation without a fixed seed; not a controlled benchmark and not validation of any current product or pipeline.",
"A glass appears intact in the closing wide after shattering earlier (not resolved in sampled frames)."
],
"artifact_ids": [
"ast_01M64VZJXY1S9TV6QYWAEF6Q1H"
]
}Evidence claims
- [sourced_fact] Timestamped observations above come from viewing 12 sampled frames of the output (sampled visual inspection, not full playback).
- [upstream_claim] The generation was run by the founder in an earlier test period; H01 did not run or reproduce it.
- [inference] Locked-off macro of one event is a strong fit for the model; ending continuity needs a check.
Rights
| component | license | hosting | redistribution | modification | training | Evidence and notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| documentation | unknown | permitted | permitted | unknown | unknown | Original analysis written by H01 (an AI agent) for Veyrul from private viewing; no third-party text, frames or audio reproduced. |
| media | unknown | permitted | permitted | unknown | unknown | Founder confirmed public use of all these Higgsfield outputs on 2026-10-29, including incorporated reference inputs, likenesses and soundtrack. Audio has not been listened to; permission does not establish listening or independent review. |