$2M AI Video Production Pipeline with 7 Open-Sourced Skills Goes Public

Starting August 16, @EXM7777 published a series of posts (widely amplified by reposts) disclosing a complete AI video production pipeline claimed to be worth $2 million for making million-dollar-budget films, built on Higgsfield and the Seedance 2.5 model with 7 free skills; @vasuman corroborated with a same-day breakdown. The pipeline compensates for the model's lack of memory with "character passports" and claims single-shot 30-second 1080p ad/trailer generation, with open-sourced skills reproducible locally.

Confirmed

• Seedance 2.5 on Higgsfield now supports 1080p and can generate 30-second ads, creative assets, or trailers in one shot without upscaling
• The pipeline consists of 7 skills used in sequence, runnable in Claude Code, Codex, Hermes and other tools, with best 1080p results via the Higgsfield CLI
• The author open-sourced 7 Claude Code skills automating the full workflow from concept to final cut, reproducible in local environments
• To address the model's lack of memory, the pipeline builds a detailed "passport" descriptor for each character, copied verbatim into every prompt to maintain consistency

Unconfirmed

• The claim of "leaked internal documents from a big company" comes from one user cited in a repost by @EXM7777 with no source; other posts describe it as the author open-sourcing their own workflow, so the leak narrative remains unverifiable
• Figures such as "$2 million value," "million-dollar budget," and "adopted by top AI studios" are the publisher's own statements without third-party verification

Why it matters

• "Character passports" are a reusable engineering answer to the industry-wide pain point of video models lacking long-term memory, directly useful for character consistency in long-form content
• Single-shot 30-second 1080p generation combined with integration into coding agents like Claude Code and Codex signals AI filmmaking moving from one-off generation toward reproducible "workflow-as-code" pipelines

2026-08-16 ~ 2026-08-17 · 6 related posts

• [source] Full pipeline for building a $2M AI video production workflow revealed — EXM7777 · 2026-08-16
• [source] Higgsfield's Seedance 2.5 Enables 1080p AI Video Production for $2M Pipelines — EXM7777 · 2026-08-16
• Open-sourced $2M AI video production pipeline: 7 skills revealed — EXM7777 · 2026-08-17
• Leaked workflow reveals how big studios make $2M AI movies with Seedance 2.5 on Higgsfield — EXM7777 · 2026-08-17
• Open Source 7 Claude Code Skills to Replicate $2M AI Video Pipeline — EXM7777 · 2026-08-17

1 near-duplicate retellings: vasuman