**English** | [中文](../zh/3d-cartoon.md) [← All prompt templates](../../../README.md#-prompt-templates-by-category) · [Template index](./README.md) # 🎨 3D cartoon character short > One small anthropomorphic character carries the whole film. Spell out its looks part by part, write the style as render settings you can measure, and cut the timeline so each block holds a single action goal.
Seedance Two-Character 3D Cartoon: Little Butterfly The Tiny Frog Chef at a Moonlit Pond Restaurant Adorable Bunnies Kiss and Hug on a Cozy Sofa The Blue-Scarved Baby Otter’s Flight Across the Mountains
## Copy this Hit the copy button on the block, replace everything in [square brackets] with your own details, and send it to any AI chat (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) together with your reference images. It will write a Seedance-ready prompt for you that follows this template. ````text I want a 3D cartoon animated short. [The lead is a small hedgehog in a red scarf, round eyes, waddling when it walks.] [The story: on a rainy night it guides a lost firefly back home.] Using the prompt template below, rewrite it into one ready-to-use Seedance video prompt for me: #### 3D cartoon character short One small anthropomorphic character carries the whole film. Spell out its looks part by part, write the style as render settings you can measure, and cut the timeline so each block holds a single action goal. **Use when:** Pixar-flavoured animated shorts with a cute lead: animal chefs, baby dragons, clay-textured characters that still move smoothly. **Guidance:** - Write the character as a parts list, then add one line that freezes it. The frog chef spells out skin, eyes, mouth, cheeks, webbed feet and chef jacket, then follows with `Keep the exact same frog appearance, outfit, proportions`; the otter adventure uses `Maintain the exact same character design, proportions, fur pattern`. - Turn the style word into render settings. The sofa bunny case asks for soft realistic fluffy fur, cinematic depth of field and creamy bokeh, then adds `premium Pixar-like quality without copying any specific existing character`. - Cut the body into labelled blocks. The frog chef runs `0–5 SEC — THE RESTAURANT` through `27–30 SEC — THE PAYOFF`; the otter adventure uses `SCENE 1 — Meadow Chase` and names a place and a mood for each block. - Write emotion as a physical beat the model can animate. The frog chef gets `He moves one tiny vegetable approximately one millimeter` and `His eyes narrow`, and the reveal reads `The hedgehog's ears shoot upward`, which lands better than saying the animals are amazed. - Close with an exclusion list aimed at animation failures. The butterfly case ends on `No character changes, face distortion, extra characters, outfit changes, flickering, deformed hands`, and the ice-cream otter adds `no distorted anatomy, no extra characters`. **Examples:** [#1](https://goodcase.ai/cases/ayzalnooor24521-seedance-ai-4a336f514777) [#2](https://goodcase.ai/cases/caden-flux-seedance-ai-473fedbbc75f) [#3](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-made-with-seedance-2-5-71bc731fe900) [#4](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-made-with-seedance-2-5-e2f2af930d0e) **Structure:** 1. Opening line that fixes the format: duration, 3D animated short, aspect ratio, overall tone 2. Character paragraph: looks part by part, outfit, personality, then one line that holds it steady 3. Body split by seconds or by SCENE, one location and one action goal per block 4. Inside each block, micro-actions and expression changes that carry the emotion 5. Visual and render paragraph: fur, depth of field, lighting, materials, bokeh 6. Camera and mood paragraph: push-in, tracking, close-up, plus a line of mood words 7. Exclusion list to close: appearance changes, face distortion, extra characters, flickering, text and watermark **Pitfalls:** - Dropping the word Pixar and stopping there. The model hands back generic CG; follow the bunny case and list fur, depth of field, lighting and bokeh one by one. - Locking the character only once at the top. The look drifts by the middle of the film, so re-name the identifying item at the start of every scene, like the blue scarf or the oversized chef hat. - Packing more scenes than the duration holds. The otter short puts nine scenes into 40 seconds, under five seconds each, so the actions only skim past. Cut scenes first and keep one action goal per block. - Asking for fine hand work with no guard. Moves like the frog chef placing a herb with tweezers are where extra fingers appear; put `deformed hands` in the exclusion list or switch to a whole-paw grab. ```` ## Three steps | Step | What to do | | --- | --- | | 1 | Copy the whole block above and replace the [bracketed] parts with your product, person or scene. Attach reference images if you can. | | 2 | Send it to any AI chat and get back a Seedance prompt written to this structure. | | 3 | Paste that prompt into Seedance (Dreamina / Jimeng) and generate. If the result is off, check the pitfalls first, then adjust and re-run. | ## Cases in this category (29 filed, by heat) | Preview | Case | Version | Heat | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Playful Rabbit Couple Kissing and Cuddling on a Sofa | [Playful Rabbit Couple Kissing and Cuddling on a Sofa](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-made-with-seedance-2-5-27ee46690725) | 2.5 | 89 | | Seedance Two-Character 3D Cartoon: Little Butterfly | [Seedance Two-Character 3D Cartoon: Little Butterfly](https://goodcase.ai/cases/ayzalnooor24521-seedance-ai-4a336f514777) | 2.0 | 84 | | The Tiny Frog Chef at a Moonlit Pond Restaurant | [The Tiny Frog Chef at a Moonlit Pond Restaurant](https://goodcase.ai/cases/caden-flux-seedance-ai-473fedbbc75f) | 2.5 | 80 | | Adorable Bunnies Kiss and Hug on a Cozy Sofa | [Adorable Bunnies Kiss and Hug on a Cozy Sofa](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-made-with-seedance-2-5-71bc731fe900) | 2.5 | 77 | | Playful Cream Bunny Winking Under a Blue Sky | [Playful Cream Bunny Winking Under a Blue Sky](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-made-with-seedance-2-5-4cfd04335a3a) | 2.5 | 72 | | A Girl and Her White Wolf’s Journey Through a Magical Wilderness | [A Girl and Her White Wolf’s Journey Through a Magical Wilderness](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-created-a-30-second-cinematic-3d-animated-video-in-a-premium-fantasy-adventure-e7a3e6134c65) | 2.0 | 67 | | Shy Hamster Offers a Rose | [Shy Hamster Offers a Rose](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-made-with-seedance-2-5-eec0708da6e5) | 2.5 | 66 | | Husband Mistakes a Laundry Request for a Romantic Invitation | [Husband Mistakes a Laundry Request for a Romantic Invitation](https://goodcase.ai/cases/im-shahid7-seedance-ai-b4d2ba40a750) | 2.0 | 60 | | A Boy and Baby Dragon’s Tropical Adventure | [A Boy and Baby Dragon’s Tropical Adventure](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-made-with-seedance-2-5-810bf41bfd44) | 2.5 | 56 | | Red Curly High Bun Pops Loose | [Red Curly High Bun Pops Loose](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-create-a-cute-polished-cinematic-3d-animated-video-exactly-15-seconds-long-u-690962672ddc) | 2.0 | 53 | | Pixar-Style Pirate Chef ASMR Comedy Short: Seedance 2.5 Second-by-Second Storyboard Prompt | [Pixar-Style Pirate Chef ASMR Comedy Short: Seedance 2.5 Second-by-Second Storyboard Prompt](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-create-a-30-second-pixar-quality-3d-animated-asmr-comedy-short-aboard-a-warm-l-0338f10f2018) | 2.5 | 45 | | Otter Friends' Summer in the Watermelon Field | [Otter Friends' Summer in the Watermelon Field](https://goodcase.ai/cases/seedance-made-with-seedance-2-5-d625f4097d92) | 2.5 | 45 | The other 17 are in the [full gallery](../../gallery.md) and on [goodcase.ai](https://goodcase.ai/cases?filter=video&q=seedance&utm_source=awesome-seedance). --- [← Previous: Stop motion and stepped cadence](./stop-motion-cadence.md) · [Next: Combat choreography →](./combat-choreography.md)