Football Character Sheet to Anime Video Workflow

Workflow

This football character-sheet-to-video workflow first uses GPT Image 2 to build consistent front, side, back, expression, shoe, and ball references for MARCO, then feeds the sheet to Seedance for a 15-second rooftop anime freestyle sequence. The timed video prompt covers juggling, around-the-world tricks, a neck stall, back roll, inverted balance, rainbow flick, and final volley while preserving the same character, outfit, ball, roof, and blue sky.

GPT-Image2SeedDance 2.0

Pipeline

Step 1

Character setup

Text-to-imageGPT-Image2

生成方式: 文生图

Prompt for the character sheet:

“Create a premium cinematic character bible sheet for a football freestyler named MARCO. Use the uploaded character sheet as the strict visual reference for his exact face, body, proportions, hair, skin tone and outfit. Do not change his appearance.

LEFT SIDE: Large bold italic brushstroke text MARCO top left, slightly angled and dynamic like it was written in motion, dark navy blue color. Below it small text: FOOTBALL FREESTYLER / THE BALL NEVER DROPS. One large full height dynamic hero image of Marco directly below — mid double around the world, caught at the peak of his jump, foot blurring around the ball, ball frozen in mid-air, clear blue sky and rooftop behind him as a clean watercolor splash in blues and whites fading into white, no box no frame, standing directly on the white page, full energy and movement captured in one frame.

CENTER: Section labeled TURNAROUND in small clean text. Three full body views: Front, Side, Back. Same character same outfit same proportions as reference. Below: BALL close-up illustration — classic black and white football with slight motion blur.

RIGHT SIDE: Section labeled DETAILS. Grid of four clean close-up panels: Face front calm expression, Eyes focused, Boot detail showing orange and white Nike colors, Foot on ball close-up. Below: COLOR PALETTE — dark navy, grey, orange, white. Tagline bottom right in thin font: THE BALL NEVER DROPS.

OVERALL: Clean white background, light blue and white watercolor splash behind hero pose, dynamic and energetic layout, minimal clean typography, lots of white space, cinematic cel-shaded 3D anime, semi-realistic CGI, hand-painted textures, digital painting feel, hard-edge brushwork, not cartoon not Disney not Pixar, print ready”

Prompt for the character sheet: “Create a premium cinematic character bible sheet for a football freestyler named MARCO. Use the uploaded character sheet as the strict visual reference for his exact face, body, proportions, hair, skin tone and outfit. Do not change his appearance. LEFT SIDE: Large bold italic brushstroke text MARCO top left, slightly angled and dynamic like it was written in motion, dark navy blue color. Below it small text: FOOTBALL FREESTYLER / THE BALL NEVER DROPS. One large full height dynamic hero image of Marco directly below — mid double around the world, caught at the peak of his jump, foot blurring around the ball, ball frozen in mid-air, clear blue sky and rooftop behind him as a clean watercolor splash in blues and whites fading into white, no box no frame, standing directly on the white page, full energy and movement captured in one frame. CENTER: Section labeled TURNAROUND in small clean text. Three full body views: Front, Side, Back. Same character same outfit same proportions as reference. Below: BALL close-up illustration — classic black and white football with slight motion blur. RIGHT SIDE: Section labeled DETAILS. Grid of four clean close-up panels: Face front calm expression, Eyes focused, Boot detail showing orange and white Nike colors, Foot on ball close-up. Below: COLOR PALETTE — dark navy, grey, orange, white. Tagline bottom right in thin font: THE BALL NEVER DROPS. OVERALL: Clean white background, light blue and white watercolor splash behind hero pose, dynamic and energetic layout, minimal clean typography, lots of white space, cinematic cel-shaded 3D anime, semi-realistic CGI, hand-painted textures, digital painting feel, hard-edge brushwork, not cartoon not Disney not Pixar, print ready”