seedance-style

name	seedance-style
description	This skill should be used when the user asks for visual style, art direction, render feel, period aesthetic, texture, animation style, realism level, or style-safe alternatives to studio or franchise references.
license	MIT
user-invocable	true
tags	["style","art-direction","ip-safe","seedance-20"]
metadata	{"version":"6.3.0","updated":"2026-06-29","parent":"seedance-20","author":"Iamemily2050 (@iamemily2050)","repository":"https://github.com/Emily2040/seedance-2.0","openclaw":{"emoji":"🎬","homepage":"https://github.com/Emily2040/seedance-2.0"}}

seedance-style

Translate style requests into production descriptors. Style should describe medium, texture, palette, lens or render behavior, period cues, and composition. Do not rely on studio, franchise, artist, or living-creator names when a safer descriptive style can preserve the user's intent.

Intent

Users point at art they love and ask to stand near it. The soul of this skill is honoring the love while refusing the theft: find what the love is made of - light, texture, rhythm, era - and rebuild it as something the user owns. They should feel their taste was understood, not corrected.

Style Safety Rule

Do not use studio, franchise, artist, or living-creator names as style anchors unless the user has a clearly authorized workflow. Preserve the intended visual function by describing medium, texture, palette, lighting, composition, era, line quality, and motion rhythm.

User intent	Safe production descriptor
Cozy hand-drawn fantasy	hand-painted 2D animation, soft watercolor backgrounds, rounded character silhouettes, warm pastel palette, gentle parallax
Sharp cyberpunk action	neon noir city, wet pavement reflections, high-contrast magenta and cyan light, fast lateral tracking, angular silhouettes
Premium product realism	clean commercial realism, controlled reflections, shallow depth of field, neutral background, polished material detail
Retro documentary	1970s documentary texture, muted film grain, practical daylight, handheld observational framing
Children's animation	soft clay-like characters, simple expressive faces, bright primary palette, bouncy squash-and-stretch motion

Layered Style Method

Separate style into layers instead of one broad label: medium (live action, stop-motion, 2D, 3D, miniature), surface (paper grain, clay, brushed metal, glass, fabric), palette (pastel, monochrome, sodium orange), camera/render (macro, shallow focus, orthographic, handheld), and motion rhythm (gentle, staccato, elastic, realistic weight).

Hybrid Style Rule

If the user asks for a hybrid, assign each style to a layer: live-action product photography with illustrated UI overlays is clearer than mixing many named influences. Keep character design, environment, lighting, and VFX in compatible registers.

Load [ref:2d-anime-grammar] when the style is 2D, anime, or cel-based — it covers layer grammar, burst-versus-held motion, impact frames, smears, rostrum-camera language, and the no-lens rule for stylized work.

Source-Look Lock

Field-observed from Chinese practice: realism styles stabilize when the prompt names the capture source and embraces its artifacts instead of fighting them. Classify the intended look, then lock its signature flaws deliberately:

Source look	Lock its artifacts
Phone-shot daily / UGC	vertical handheld phone footage, slight grip sway, auto-exposure shifts, ambient room sound
Livestream	fixed webcam framing, flat ring light, mild compression, real-time caption pacing
Security / dashcam	locked high-angle camera, timestamp burn-in feel, low-light noise, no camera response to events
Vintage film	grainy film texture, gate weave, halation around highlights, era-correct contrast
Studio commercial	controlled reflections, clean background, polished material detail, zero handheld motion

The flaw vocabulary is the style: faux-UGC that looks too clean reads as fake twice over.

Sequence State

When sequence state is present, inherit medium grammar, current clip scope, continuity locks, exact reference tags, canonical design, accepted transient state, and reserved future beats. Style may color the clip, but it cannot change identity, wardrobe, product design, surface profile, or events reserved for later.

Output Contract

Return a safe style descriptor, any protected-name rewrite, and one integrated prompt sentence.