Tutorials
Official tutorials
Step-by-step walkthroughs from the DreamOddly team, covering script, storyboard, characters and image generation.
Keep props and sets continuous
Keep the position and state of on-screen props, such as a cup, lamp, or door, consistent across adjacent shots.
Retry by stepping down
After a failure, check the reason, such as timeout, content, or parameters, then lower the settings or simplify the motion before retrying instead of retrying endlessly.
Know what this machine can do
Check which path preflight says is available, local render or cloud render, and take that one rather than forcing a route that is disabled.
Contrast rhythm, long and short
Order shots long, short, then long to move from quiet to eruption to aftermath within one passage.
Preview before you share
Provide a preview and download of the finished cut when rendering completes.
Age the voice honestly
Give an explicit age cue when casting children or elderly characters so you avoid an adult straining to sound like a child.
Zoom the timeline
Zoom in on the timeline when you need frame-level precision.
High-key lighting
Use bright, even, low-contrast light for S7 comedy, S10 animation, or fresh S1 e-commerce imagery.
Leave stretches unscored
Resist scoring end to end and pull the music out under pivotal dialogue and shock moments, where silence hits harder than any cue.
Hard cut or transition
Choose between a hard cut and a transition based on whether the information remains continuous.
Section cards and titles
Break educational or animated pieces with information cards, and set each card's duration to match real reading speed.
Trench coat figure in noir
Dress him in a long dark trench coat, a narrow tie, and an old hat.
Drone follow and flyover
Pick drone-follow to trail a moving subject and drone-flyover to establish geography over mountains, old streets, or a city skyline.
Read the render estimate
Show a render-time estimate and progress, with segmented guidance for long films so the user does not think the job has frozen.
The missing man is himself
A private detective takes on a missing person case and discovers the missing person is himself.
Give creatures a movement vocabulary
Give the little creature a fixed movement vocabulary, such as hop, head tilt, and nuzzle, and specify the rhythm.
A thousand-year legend lights the old city
Let a thousand-year-old legend thread together the night lanterns and the landmarks of an ancient walled city.
Keep ad VO fast and dense
Keep commercial VO fast, dense, and memorable with repeated short phrases.
Low-key lighting (style: film-noir)
Use film-noir, with broad areas of shadow and a few highlights, for thriller or vintage mystery.
Layer the audio tracks
Place dialogue, narration, music, and sound effects on separate audio layers.
A handmade cup in morning light
Morning light falls across a handmade ceramic cup fresh from the kiln, while the cat beside the table watches it go from wheel throwing to someone's hands.
One minute of sugar painting
In one minute a sugar painting artisan turns a single ladle of hot syrup into the animal a child has just named.
Preview the credit cost
If export uses credits, show the estimate before proceeding so the user does not discover an overrun afterward (PRODUCT item 5).
Three-point lighting
Ask for a key light from the front quarter, a soft fill and a rim light to make a figure read clearly and believably.