Creator Shares Full Seedance + ElevenLabs Workflow for Two-Character AI Dialogue Short

On November 4–5, creator DavidmComfort published and fully broke down the AI two-character dialogue short Everything That Lives: two characters, one set, 23 lines of dialogue, and roughly 113 seconds of final footage, assembled from 5 Seedance 2.5 video segments plus one closing shot, inspired by Monique Pryce's work. He says it took extensive experimentation to get the workflow running, and vouches for its reproducibility.

Confirmed

Pipeline skeleton: the script contains only short lines with physical-beat markers; shooting uses shot/reverse-shot and over-the-shoulder coverage; a 480p draft confirms the visuals first, then Topaz upscales to 1080p (slightly soft image quality).
Voice stage: ElevenLabs speech-to-speech locks in each character's voice, text-to-dialogue uses elevenv4, and a single beat spec drives both the voice and video prompts so dialogue and visuals stay in sync.
Generation details: he shared the real prompt for segment G2 in convgen.py; each clip uses three reference images.

Unconfirmed

His pitfalls list notes limitations such as Seedance leaking words and ElevenLabs having a pause-length cap with failed re-records — these are the author's personal findings; see the original post for their exact scope.

Why it matters

This is one of the few AI dialogue-short cases with the entire chain made public — script, storyboarding, voice design, reference images, and resolution upscaling — complete with real prompts and a list of what worked and what didn't, making it directly useful for creators looking to replicate an AI film-narrative workflow.

2026-11-04 ~ 2026-11-05 · 6 related posts

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How one creator built a 113-second AI dialogue short with Seedance 2.5 and ElevenLabs — DavidmComfort · 2026-11-05 10:01 (UTC+08:00)
A start-to-finish workflow for AI dialogue scenes, from script to 1080p — DavidmComfort · 2026-11-04 09:38 (UTC+08:00)
Creator shares the actual ElevenLabs prompts behind his Seedance dialogue short — DavidmComfort · 2026-11-05 10:01 (UTC+08:00)

[source] A start-to-finish workflow for AI dialogue scenes, from script to 1080p — DavidmComfort · 2026-11-04
Creator demos a natural two-character AI dialogue short built with a repeatable workflow — DavidmComfort · 2026-11-05
AI dialogue short post-mortem: Seedance prompt leaks, ElevenLabs pause limits and failed voice patching — DavidmComfort · 2026-11-05
[source] How one creator built a 113-second AI dialogue short with Seedance 2.5 and ElevenLabs — DavidmComfort · 2026-11-05
[source] Creator shares the actual ElevenLabs prompts behind his Seedance dialogue short — DavidmComfort · 2026-11-05

1 near-duplicate retellings: DavidmComfort