From chapter to clip: a Seedance 2.0 storyboard skill

What it does This is a Claude Code Skill—structured prompts and conventions—that turns a novel or story into a full production package for Seedance 2.0 video generation. It outputs a four-act script (起承转合), numbered asset lists for characters (C01–C99), scenes (S01–S99) and props (P01–P99), and time-coded shot breakdowns formatted for Seedance’s timeline-based prompt system. The repo ships three complete sample productions, including a five-episode Water Margin adaptation.

The interesting bit The workflow treats episode continuity as a first-class problem: each episode’s tail-frame description is fed into the next via Seedance’s video-extension feature, creating a daisy chain of 15-second clips. It also bakes in platform guardrails—max nine images per generation, sensitive-word landmines, camera vocabulary—so the LLM writes prompts that Seedance can actually execute without choking.

Key highlights

• Four-act script structure with explicit emotional-arc mapping
• Rigid asset numbering to keep character appearance consistent across episodes
• Time-segmented prompts (0–3s, 3–6s, etc.) with Chinese camera-direction keywords (推镜头, 环绕镜头, 希区柯克变焦)
• Tail-frame handoff system for episode-to-episode continuity
• Published as a free Coze skill for non-developers

Caveats

• Seedance platform quirks are well-documented: prompts over 300 characters may be ignored, sensitive words fail silently, and video-editing capability is limited enough that most changes require full regeneration
• This is workflow glue, not a standalone app; you still need Claude Code, an image generator, and Seedance 2.0 access

Verdict Grab it if you’re batch-producing serialized AI short video and want someone else to handle the shot-list paperwork. If you don’t use Seedance 2.0 or Claude Code, there’s nothing here to reuse.