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Lesson 001 — Blocking like a Calculator! — Seedance 2.5 Tutorial
By Maheshinder Singh (Mesh)
Chapters: Tap a chapter to jump to that moment in the video.
- The final baseball sequence
- What didn’t work
- How a frame gets made
- The Squint Test
- Building the walk-around prompt
- Screen direction: left, right, up, down
- Do you need Blender?
- The blocking vocabulary
- Testing character movement and footwork
- Camera, performance, and blocking
- Blocking in five lines
What you’ll learn
- Why vague movement prompts often produce unpredictable results
- How AI interprets the composition of a frame
- The “Squint Test” for establishing a shot
- Using screen left and screen right to direct character movement
- Establishing foreground, midground, and background
- Blocking multiple characters within a single shot
- How to describe occlusion and character positioning
- The relationship between camera, performance, and blocking
- How small changes to a prompt can improve the final action
The film behind the lesson
Inside Joke — the film this tutorial teaches from, scored 9.4/10 on Kineograph.
Topic shelves
Directing & Craft
Contains Lesson 001 above.
Tools & Workflow
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Sound & Music
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Promoting Your Film
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The approach this page admires is Mesh’s — teach from a film you actually made.
Festivals & Submissions
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