ByteDance's flagship video model
Seedance 2.5 - coming soon to Picsart
One prompt in, a finished 30-second scene out. Seedance 2.5 is ByteDance's new flagship video model — continuous shots, physically accurate light, characters that stay consistent across up to 50 references, and dialogue in 20 languages. Not another clip generator; a storytelling engine. Coming soon to Picsart.
Cinematic scenes made with Seedance 2.5
Meet Seedance 2.5
One prompt in, a finished scene out
Seedance 2.5 thinks in scenes, not clips. Describe the shot and it delivers 30 seconds of continuous, physically believable video — consistent characters, cinematic light, real motion. ByteDance debuted it at their Singapore event with a full 12-minute short film made entirely inside it.
Double the runway
30 seconds. One take. Zero cuts.
Most models tap out near 15 seconds. Seedance 2.5 doubles it — a full 30-second continuous shot, so a character can enter, act, and land a line with no jarring cut. Longer takes, steadier pacing, and story beats that finally have room to breathe.
What you can create with Seedance 2.5
Generate and adapt a video across 20 languages with matched lip-sync. Localize the dialogue, the characters, and even the setting, so one production speaks natively to every audience.
Real light, real emotion
Light that behaves like light
No flat, over-saturated glow. Seedance 2.5 lights a face the way a cinematographer would — the near eye catches more than the far one, shadows fall where they should, and micro-expressions read as genuine feeling. It looks shot, not rendered.
Inside Picsart
How Seedance 2.5 works inside Picsart
Seedance 2.5 is coming soon to Picsart's AI Playground, where you'll be able to generate with it directly and compare its output against 150+ other AI models from a single prompt — no setup or model configuration required.
Total creative control
50 references. Nothing drifts.
Feed Seedance 2.5 up to 50 references — images, video, and audio — and lock a character's face, wardrobe, voice, and world across an entire sequence. It's how a full short film held together shot to shot: more references, more control, zero continuity slips.
Seedance 2.5 AI model FAQ
Seedance 2.5 is ByteDance's latest state-of-the-art AI video model. It generates 30-second clips in a single shot, renders soft, physically accurate lighting, supports 20 languages with lip-sync, and accepts up to 50 references for consistent characters and scenes.
Up to 30 seconds in a single shot — double the roughly 15-second limit of most AI video models — so you can hold continuous shots and build scene sequences without stitching fragments.
Seedance 2.5 is coming soon to Picsart's AI Playground, where you'll be able to generate with it directly and compare it against 150+ other AI models from a single prompt.
Up to 50 references — images, video, and audio — a major jump from 15. That's enough to lock a character's face, wardrobe, and voice across an entire sequence.
Seedance 2.5 supports 20 languages with matched lip-sync, and can localize the setting, characters, and dialogue so one production works for audiences worldwide.
Seedance 2.5 doubles clip length to 30 seconds, replaces 2.0's over-saturated glow with softer, physics-accurate lighting and more natural eye and facial detail, adds realistic impact physics and 3D-reference texturing, and raises reference support from 15 to 50.
Yes. Videos created through Picsart's tools powered by Seedance 2.5 can be used for marketing, social media, brand content, and other commercial applications, subject to Picsart's terms of use.
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