The Hype Man
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Prompt 1
SEEDANCE · UNIVERSAL SINGER + HYPE MAN FORMAT: same duration and aspect ratio as @Video 1 / two-pet replacement / keep original cuts REFERENCES: @Video 1 is the camera, edit, timing and performance master. It is uploaded muted. Copy it exactly: same number of shots, same cut points, same shot durations, same camera framing and movement, same red studio backdrop, same hanging studio microphone, same lighting and color grading. It contains two performers: the SINGER standing at the microphone on screen-right, and the DANCER on screen-left. Copy both performances frame by frame: every mouth shape, jaw opening, head tilt, head turn, eye closing, paw gesture, arm movement, dance move, body sway and bounce, at the exact same moments. Do not inherit the original cats' identity, breed, fur color, fur length, eyes or accessories. @Image 1 defines ONLY the new SINGER. It can be a cat or a dog. Preserve this animal's face, eye color, eye condition, fur color, fur pattern, fur length, ear shape, nose, body size and proportions exactly as shown in @Image 1, including any unique features such as a different or cloudy eye, a scar, a missing ear tip or special markings. Keep any collar, bandana or accessory only if visible in @Image 1. Do not inherit the background, floor, furniture or lighting from @Image 1. [optional: short description of the singer pet, and any unique feature with its exact side, e.g. "white dog, the dog's RIGHT ear is folded"] @Image 2 defines ONLY the new DANCER. It can be a cat or a dog. Preserve this animal's face, eye color, eye condition, fur color, fur pattern, fur length, ear shape, nose, body size and proportions exactly as shown in @Image 2, including any unique features. Keep any collar, bandana or accessory only if visible in @Image 2. Do not inherit the background, floor, furniture or lighting from @Image 2. [optional: short description of the dancer pet, and any unique feature with its exact side] VIDEO PROMPT: Recreate @Video 1 with both performers replaced. The pet from @Image 1 stands upright on screen-right at the hanging microphone and sings exactly like the original singer: the mouth opens, closes and shapes every word at the same moments and to the same width, so the original song can be laid back in perfect lip sync. Its front paws copy every gesture of the original singer at the same moment and in the same direction, with the same head tilts, the same eyes closing on long notes and the same body sway. The pet from @Image 2 stands upright on screen-left and copies every move of the original dancer: the same hype-man bounces, paw pumps, pointing, spins, leans and poses, landing on the same beats. Both pets keep the exact screen side, spacing, scale and framing of the original performers in every shot. Each pet keeps its own species, breed, fur length, muzzle shape and body build; if a pet is larger or smaller than the original cat, keep its body center and floor position identical and scale the body naturally. Any unique facial feature stays on the correct side of the face in every shot, every head turn and every spin, exactly as in its reference image, never mirrored. The dancer never blocks the singer's face or touches the microphone. The studio lighting wraps each pet's fur naturally. Photorealistic, real fur physics, natural animal anatomy, believable upright balance. Camera lock: every shot is a frame-by-frame copy of the matching shot in @Video 1: same start frame, same framing, same movement, same speed, same duration, same cut point. Do not slow down, shorten, extend, merge or remove any shot. Do not add camera moves that are not in @Video 1. AUDIO: silent. No music, no singing voice, no sound effects. Mouth and body movements follow @Video 1 frame by frame so the original song can be added back in the edit. CONSISTENCY: Exactly two animals and no human. The @Image 1 pet is always the singer at the microphone on screen-right; the @Image 2 pet is always the dancer on screen-left; they never swap roles or sides. Same identities in every shot. Unique features and accessories present on the correct side in every shot. Backdrop, microphone, camera, cuts and timing identical to @Video 1. NEGATIVE PROMPT: no original cats from @Video 1, no human, no third animal, no swapped roles, no swapped sides, no dancer singing, no singer leaving the microphone, no mouth movement out of sync with @Video 1, no identity change, no breed change, no species change, no mirrored face, no eye change, no missing or moved unique features, no added accessories, no fur pattern drift, no dancer blocking the singer, no slow camera, no slow motion, no shortened or missing shots, no change to camera path, speed or cut points, no backdrop color change, no missing microphone, no music, no flicker, no cartoon, no cheap CGI, no on-screen text, no watermark.
Tutorial
DENIZ AKKABAK · PET SWAP TUTORIAL · @DENIZ.AKKABAK
The Hype Man
How to cast any two pets — one as the lead singer, one as the hype man — into a studio performance, with every lip movement, gesture and dance move kept on the beat.
A TUTORIAL BY DENIZ AKKABAK · @DENIZ.AKKABAK
PIPELINE SEEDANCE 2.5 FORMAT MATCHES THE REEL GENRE PET MUSIC VIDEO
Two things make this video land: a singer whose mouth hits every word, and a sidekick who sells every beat. I built it the long way — a human studio performance, translated into paws, with a dance written in on top. You don’t have to. The finished reel already carries both performances, frame by frame, so it becomes your reference: attach it, cast your own pets in the two roles, and Seedance re-dresses the performance around them. The lip sync survives, the choreography survives, only the stars change.
THE PIPELINE AT A GLANCE
- 01
Get the reel
Download the reel from Instagram and mute it. This file is your @Video 1 — camera, cuts, lip sync and dance.
- 02
Cast your pets
One clear photo per role. @Image 1 is the singer at the mic, @Image 2 is the hype man beside it.
- 03
Generate
Attach all three in order, paste the prompt, match duration and aspect ratio to the reel, render.
STEP 01 — INSTAGRAM
Download the Reel — It Is Your @Video 1
The prompt never describes a single lyric, gesture or dance move in words. It points at @Video 1 and says copy it — both performers, frame by frame. So the reel has to be attached as a real reference, or there is nothing to copy: no mouth timing, no paw work, no hype-man choreography, just two pets posing in front of a red wall.
Save the reel itself from my Instagram post (@deniz.akkabak) to your phone or computer — the actual video file, not a link and not a screenshot. It goes into the references as @Video 1. MC Feyyaz and Lil Rıfkı are still in it, and that’s exactly right: the prompt keeps their performances and throws away their identities.
@VIDEO 1 — THE REEL, THREE MOMENTS
STEP 02 — AUDIO OFF
Mute It — or Seedance Won’t Render
The reel carries a song, and that song is copyrighted. Seedance checks the audio of every reference you attach, and a copyrighted track gets the generation blocked before a single frame is made. Strip the sound before you upload — the mouths don’t need to hear the song, they only need to see it.
AUDIO CHECK — BEFORE YOU UPLOAD
Mute the clip and export a new file. On iPhone: Photos → Edit → tap the speaker icon so it’s crossed out → Done. In CapCut or any editor: mute the clip, export.
Attach the silent file, not the original. Same length, same frames — only the audio track is gone. Every lip movement is still in the pixels, and that’s what the prompt copies.
Add the song back at the end. The render comes out silent with the mouth on the original timing — lay the track back in your editor or pick it when you post, and the lip sync lines up.
STEP 03 — CASTING
Cast Your Pets — The Voice and the Hype
Two photos, two roles, and this time the order is the casting. @Image 1 becomes the singer at the microphone on screen-right. @Image 2 becomes the hype man on screen-left. Cats, dogs or one of each — the prompt only cares who goes in which slot. Pick your most expressive face for the mic.
Choose photos the way a casting director would: one animal per photo, face toward the camera, both eyes visible, good light, head and chest in frame. Seedance can only preserve what it can see.
REFERENCE INPUTS — THE STARS OF THIS VERSION
Name one-sided features from the pet’s point of view. Lil Rıfkı is blind in his left eye, and in a video full of spins and head turns, that detail is the first thing a model will mirror. If your pet has anything one-sided — an eye, a scar, a folded ear, a patch — fill in the [optional] line with the side as the pet sees it: “the dog’s RIGHT ear is folded.” Nothing to add? Delete the bracket lines.
STEP 04 — SEEDANCE
Generate — One Prompt, Three References
Open Seedance in reference-to-video mode. Attach the three files in exactly this order, set the duration and aspect ratio to match the reel you downloaded, paste the prompt, and render.
REFERENCE INPUTS — ATTACH IN THIS ORDER
- 01
@Video 1
The muted reel. Camera, cuts, lip sync, gestures, dance, studio, microphone.
- 02
@Image 1
Your singer — takes the mic on screen-right.
- 03
@Image 2
Your hype man — takes screen-left.
Prompt 1
SEEDANCE · UNIVERSAL SINGER + HYPE MAN
same duration and aspect ratio as @Video 1 / two-pet replacement / keep original cuts
@Video 1 is the camera, edit, timing and performance master. It is uploaded muted. Copy it exactly: same number of shots, same cut points, same shot durations, same camera framing and movement, same red studio backdrop, same hanging studio microphone, same lighting and color grading. It contains two performers: the SINGER standing at the microphone on screen-right, and the DANCER on screen-left. Copy both performances frame by frame: every mouth shape, jaw opening, head tilt, head turn, eye closing, paw gesture, arm movement, dance move, body sway and bounce, at the exact same moments. Do not inherit the original cats' identity, breed, fur color, fur length, eyes or accessories. @Image 1 defines ONLY the new SINGER. It can be a cat or a dog. Preserve this animal's face, eye color, eye condition, fur color, fur pattern, fur length, ear shape, nose, body size and proportions exactly as shown in @Image 1, including any unique features such as a different or cloudy eye, a scar, a missing ear tip or special markings. Keep any collar, bandana or accessory only if visible in @Image 1. Do not inherit the background, floor, furniture or lighting from @Image 1. [optional: short description of the singer pet, and any unique feature with its exact side, e.g. "white dog, the dog's RIGHT ear is folded"] @Image 2 defines ONLY the new DANCER. It can be a cat or a dog. Preserve this animal's face, eye color, eye condition, fur color, fur pattern, fur length, ear shape, nose, body size and proportions exactly as shown in @Image 2, including any unique features. Keep any collar, bandana or accessory only if visible in @Image 2. Do not inherit the background, floor, furniture or lighting from @Image 2. [optional: short description of the dancer pet, and any unique feature with its exact side]
Recreate @Video 1 with both performers replaced. The pet from @Image 1 stands upright on screen-right at the hanging microphone and sings exactly like the original singer: the mouth opens, closes and shapes every word at the same moments and to the same width, so the original song can be laid back in perfect lip sync. Its front paws copy every gesture of the original singer at the same moment and in the same direction, with the same head tilts, the same eyes closing on long notes and the same body sway. The pet from @Image 2 stands upright on screen-left and copies every move of the original dancer: the same hype-man bounces, paw pumps, pointing, spins, leans and poses, landing on the same beats. Both pets keep the exact screen side, spacing, scale and framing of the original performers in every shot. Each pet keeps its own species, breed, fur length, muzzle shape and body build; if a pet is larger or smaller than the original cat, keep its body center and floor position identical and scale the body naturally. Any unique facial feature stays on the correct side of the face in every shot, every head turn and every spin, exactly as in its reference image, never mirrored. The dancer never blocks the singer's face or touches the microphone. The studio lighting wraps each pet's fur naturally. Photorealistic, real fur physics, natural animal anatomy, believable upright balance. Camera lock: every shot is a frame-by-frame copy of the matching shot in @Video 1: same start frame, same framing, same movement, same speed, same duration, same cut point. Do not slow down, shorten, extend, merge or remove any shot. Do not add camera moves that are not in @Video 1.
silent. No music, no singing voice, no sound effects. Mouth and body movements follow @Video 1 frame by frame so the original song can be added back in the edit.
Exactly two animals and no human. The @Image 1 pet is always the singer at the microphone on screen-right; the @Image 2 pet is always the dancer on screen-left; they never swap roles or sides. Same identities in every shot. Unique features and accessories present on the correct side in every shot. Backdrop, microphone, camera, cuts and timing identical to @Video 1.
no original cats from @Video 1, no human, no third animal, no swapped roles, no swapped sides, no dancer singing, no singer leaving the microphone, no mouth movement out of sync with @Video 1, no identity change, no breed change, no species change, no mirrored face, no eye change, no missing or moved unique features, no added accessories, no fur pattern drift, no dancer blocking the singer, no slow camera, no slow motion, no shortened or missing shots, no change to camera path, speed or cut points, no backdrop color change, no missing microphone, no music, no flicker, no cartoon, no cheap CGI, no on-screen text, no watermark.
STEP 05
Anatomy — Why It Holds Together
- 01
The contract
FORMAT says “same duration and aspect ratio as @Video 1 / keep original cuts.” The output is locked to the reel’s shape before any pet is mentioned — no reframing, no invented edit.
- 02
Two performances, one master
@Video 1 “contains two performers” and the prompt names them by job and position — the SINGER at the mic on screen-right, the DANCER on screen-left — then says “copy both performances frame by frame.” Nothing is described; everything is pointed at.
- 03
Lip sync without sound
“The mouth opens, closes and shapes every word at the same moments and to the same width.” The song is gone from the file, but the timing lives in the pixels — which is why the track drops back in and lines up.
- 04
The role-and-side lock
CONSISTENCY repeats it: “always the singer at the microphone,” “always the dancer on screen-left,” “never swap roles or sides.” Two animals in one frame is where models blend or trade places — this line keeps the voice at the mic.
- 05
Identity marks, sided
“Any unique facial feature stays on the correct side … every head turn and every spin … never mirrored.” The hype man spins; without this line, a one-sided eye or ear flips the moment the head turns.
- 06
Bodies that fit
“Each pet keeps its own species, breed, fur length, muzzle shape and body build” while “body center and floor position” stay identical — a husky or a kitten slots into the same choreography without becoming the original cat.
- 07
The camera lock and the insurance
“Every shot is a frame-by-frame copy … same speed, same duration, same cut point” stops the slow-down and the trim. The NEGATIVE list closes the rest: “no dancer singing,” “no singer leaving the microphone,” “no mouth movement out of sync,” “no music.”
THE RESULT
Output — MC Feyyaz × Lil Rıfkı
Check yours against the reel, shot by shot: the singer’s mouth opens on the same frames, the paws hit the same gestures, the hype man lands the same bounces and the same big finish, nobody swaps sides, and every one-sided feature stays put through the spins. If something slips, don’t rewrite the prompt — fix the one line that owns it.
EVERY STAR NEEDS A HYPE MAN.
One pet takes the mic. The other takes the room.
The hard part is already inside the reel: a vocal performance translated into paws, and a dance written onto the beat. Swap the photos and the skeleton carries anyone — a lead and a backup, a dog and a cat, siblings, rivals. One reference owns the camera and both performances, one image per performer owns the identity, a role-and-side lock keeps the singer at the mic, and a silent render keeps the rights check from ever stopping you.
WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PROMPTED BY DENIZ AKKABAK · @DENIZ.AKKABAK