Bottle Service

DENIZ AKKABAK · PET SWAP TUTORIAL · @DENIZ.AKKABAK

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Bottle Service

How to hand Lil Rıfkı’s bartender routine to your own pet — one motion clip, one pet photo, one table photo, and a single Seedance 2.5 prompt that swaps everything except the moves.

A TUTORIAL BY DENIZ AKKABAK · @DENIZ.AKKABAK

PIPELINE SEEDANCE 2.5 · REFERENCE-TO-VIDEO FORMAT 9:16 · 27S · 1080P · SILENT GENRE PET SWAP / MOTION TRANSFER

The choreography is already done. Lil Rıfkı — a one-eyed black cat in a red paisley bandana — stands behind an olive-wood table, juggles a milk bottle, lunges at the lens and pours three perfect shots, all in one 27-second take. That finished take is now the reference. Seedance 2.5 can read a video as pure motion — every paw action, every head tilt, every wobble of the camera — and then recast the performer and rebuild the set around it. You do not need to reinvent a single beat: hand it the clip, a photo of your pet and a photo of your table, and the universal prompt in this guide pours the same routine with your animal behind your bar.

THE PIPELINE AT A GLANCE

1. 01

   The three references

   @Video 1 is Rıfkı’s finished clip and carries the moves and the camera, @Image 1 carries your pet, @Image 2 carries your room and table. Each file does exactly one job.

2. 02

   Seedance 2.5 inside invideo

   Reference-to-video, 9:16, 1080p, 27 seconds, audio off. One prompt, one continuous shot, nothing to edit afterwards.

STEP 01 — REFERENCES

Three Inputs, Three Jobs

Everything this video needs fits in three files, and the trick is that none of them overlap. The motion clip is never asked for its looks, the pet photo is never asked for its background, and the room photo is never asked for a performer. Seedance gets three clean briefs instead of one tangled one — and that separation is what lets Rıfkı’s routine survive the jump into any other animal’s body.

REFERENCE INPUTS — ATTACH IN THIS ORDER

Upload order matters. The clip goes into the reference-video slot, then the pet photo first and the room photo second, so that @Image 1 and @Image 2 in the prompt point at the right files. Choose a pet photo where the face is square to the lens — the model copies what it can read, and a three-quarter angle hides half the markings it is supposed to keep.

STEP 02 — SEEDANCE 2.5

One Prompt, One Take

Inside invideo, open Seedance 2.5 in reference-to-video mode and attach the three files. The settings mirror the source clip: 9:16 because the reference is vertical, 27 seconds because the reference runs 27 seconds — match the length and the choreography lands beat for beat instead of being squeezed or stretched. Audio generation stays off; the prompt asks for a silent take, so the soundtrack is yours to lay in the edit.

SETTINGS

MODELSeedance 2.5 · R2V

ASPECT9:16

RESOLUTION1080p

DURATION27 s

AUDIOOff

OUTPUT

STEP 03

Anatomy — Why the Swap Holds

1. 01

   The contract

   FORMAT repeats what the settings already say: 9:16, 27 seconds, one continuous shot, completely silent. Redundant on purpose — when the prompt and the controls agree, the model has nothing left to negotiate, and 27 seconds matches @Video 1 to the frame.

2. 02

   One reference, one job

   Each REFERENCES line opens with a job title in capitals — MOTION AND CAMERA SOURCE ONLY, CHARACTER IDENTITY, ENVIRONMENT AND TABLE — and closes with an ignore list. “Ignore its cat’s identity, fur, eyes and bandana, its living room, its table” is what stops Rıfkı’s face and Rıfkı’s olive-wood bar from bleeding into your shot.

3. 03

   Universal identity

   @Image 1 never names a species or a colour; it lists what to copy — breed, proportions, fur pattern, markings and “every eye detail on the same side as in the photo.” That clause is why the same prompt works for a tabby, a husky or a one-eyed cat, and “never mirrored” in CONSISTENCY stops the model flipping a face to fit the source pose — or borrowing Rıfkı’s eyes along with his moves.

4. 04

   Personalise the one detail

   If your pet has a signature feature, give it one sentence inside the @Image 1 line. Rıfkı’s own run spelled out his blind eye — cloudy, milky, on the cat’s left — and listed “blind eye on the wrong side” in the negatives. One precise sentence beats ten adjectives.

5. 05

   Rescale the props

   A cat-sized bottle in a big dog’s paws reads like a pill bottle. “Scaled to the pet’s paws” resizes the prop to the new performer, and the glasses are placed by name — two shots in the middle, one tumbler near the lens — so the pour has targets that read at tabletop height.

6. 06

   Ten beats on the clock

   The model is told to copy @Video 1, but the timecodes are the checkpoints it can be held to: the 3.3s toss, the 6.0s lunge, the twelve-second pour from 7.0 to 19.0s, the second toss at 21.0s — and “End on this frame,” so the paw in the lens is the final image, not a drift.

7. 07

   The insurance

   NEGATIVE PROMPT bans what the reference keeps trying to smuggle in: the identity of the cat from @Video 1, any bandana your pet does not wear, the olive-wood table, the glass top with its stadium, the room. “Bottle label” is banned too — but the bottle in @Video 1 carries one, and labels love to survive. That is the honest limit of motion transfer: the more a prop moves in @Video 1, the harder it clings to its original look.

THE RESULT

Output — Lil Rıfkı Pours Three

Check it against the prompt: the bottle leaves the top of the frame and comes back, both paws hit the tabletop at the lunge, the two shots fill one after the other before the tumbler, the bandana never comes off, the cloudy eye stays on the cat’s left all the way through — and the last frame is nothing but black paw and full glass. This is the clip your run inherits, so judge your own output by the same list. If it drifts, the fix is almost always in @Image 1: a sharper, more frontal photo of your pet.

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