Tutorials
Official tutorials
Step-by-step walkthroughs from the DreamOddly team, covering script, storyboard, characters and image generation.
Film noir detective
Give him a trench coat, an old felt hat, a cigarette, and a habitual frown.
Same song, same night
Two old friends who lost touch ten years ago call into the same late-night radio show on the same night and request the same song.
Adventure in the microscopic world
Watercolor cell illustrations turn the microscopic world into a small adventure.
Cut to the beat
Listen through the music and mark its downbeats first, then land your hard cuts on those accents.
High angle and overhead
Use a high angle or overhead view to establish relationships among several characters or the scale of a space.
Two hands, again and again
Two hands wearing matching rings come close while passing an umbrella, cooking, and saying goodbye, and finally take hold again at the station.
The retired bladesmith's last cut
A bladesmith living in seclusion is pulled back into an old case, and his final stroke turns out to be the choice not to cut.
Rembrandt lighting (style: rembrandt-lighting)
Place the key light high and off to one side so a small triangle of light lands on the shadow-side cheek for a portrait with depth.
Deep focus, multiple planes
Use deep focus to keep foreground and background sharp at once and layer information in the frame.
The wrong answer, on camera
A perfectly serious presenter delivers a confident wrong answer, and the props on the demo bench prove him wrong on the spot.
Write the publish metadata
Use a title with a hook, an eye-catching cover, and tags matched to the target platform, with different choices for I1, I2, and I3.
A light left on for a stray cat
An old neighbor leaves a light burning downstairs for the stray cat every night, until one evening the light does not come on.
Film texture (style: film-grain / film-noir)
Use film-grain when you want the look of old film.
Monochrome grading
Use black and white or a single desaturated hue to unify the mood.
Company mascot creature
Give the mascot a rounded body, a smiling face, and a uniform bow tie.
Split lighting
Split the face into light and shadow to symbolize good and evil or inner conflict.
A day wrapped in data
A smart watch follows its owner through a run, a meeting, and sleep, and every lift of the wrist hands the data to the next part of his life.
Rival or copycat styling
Copy the hero's uniform cut first, then change one detail with a story reason behind it, such as the button style, the wear pattern or a mask.
A day that slows down
A couple spends one deliberately slow day together in a small town at the foot of the mountains.
Music from inside the frame (diegetic)
Treat music that exists inside the scene, such as an old radio or live performance, as diegetic sound that supports a vintage atmosphere.
Reorder to test the story
Drag clips into a different order to try alternative narratives.
Lay an ambience bed
Give each scene its own ambience, such as morning market voices, forest insects, or workshop machinery, and lay it down before the other audio.
Pedestal up or crane up
Raise the camera with pedestal-up or crane-up to reveal the height and scale of a ship, summit, or fortress.
First frame first
When a two-slot first-and-last-frame clip stalls, get the first frame solid, then add the last frame, and only then submit the video.