Using Magnific, create a 30-second animated short with Seedance 2.5 Draft in 16:9. Use the attached image as the opening frame and visual reference. Keep the character designs, animation style, colors, and lighting consistent. The premise: a police officer’s coffee break is interrupted by a thief. Develop this into a complete mini-story with a clear setup, escalating action, and a funny payoff. You decide how the story unfolds, including the camera angles, shot lengths, pacing, and transitions. Add music and synchronized sound effects, with minimal dialogue.
Make it yours. Change the premise line ("a police officer’s coffee break is interrupted by a thief") and attach your own opening image. "30-second" and "16:9" set the length and format.
Cop's coffee break, directed by two models
A 30-second cartoon short (a thief interrupts a police officer's coffee break) made twice from one brief and opening frame, shown side by side. Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol each directed a take, and Seedance 2.5 Draft rendered both on Magnific.
“We gave both the same scene brief, then generated their takes with Seedance 2.5 Draft on Magnific”
- Claude Opus 5.5
- GPT-6 Sol
- Magnific
- Seedance 2.5 Draft
- Under 4m each
You'll need
- A Magnific account with access to Seedance 2.5 Draft
- Your own opening-frame image for the characters and style
How it was made
A post from Magnific's own account. Both models got the same brief and the same opening image; the screenshot of the prompt shows it typed into a chat app with Magnific attached as a tool. Magnific says Claude's take leans into the buildup with close-ups and a slower pace, and GPT-6 Sol's is more action-driven, with wider shots and a chase. Each take is also posted on its own.
Posted Sep 23, 2026 · X · 111 likes · 12k views · 8 comments
Prompt from: Reply in the thread, with a screenshot of the brief and its opening image
Look notesby Reference
Two cartoon takes side by side on an off-white card. Both open on a lanky officer in sunglasses on an orange couch by a chain-link window; Claude's take stays close on him, his coffee, and his sunglasses, while GPT-6 Sol's follows a chase through a rainy alley.
- Color
- Burnt-orange couch and warm skin tones against slate-gray and teal-black alleys, red siren light in the GPT-6 Sol take, all on an off-white card with hot-pink labels.
- Type
- Hot-pink sans labels above each panel (Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, Seedance 2.5 Draft) and a black Magnific logo centered below.
- Framing
- Two 16:9 panels side by side across the upper half of the frame, with labels above them and the Magnific logo in a band underneath.
- Structure
- Claude's take: the officer seated, his coffee cup and hand, a close-up of a thief reflected in his sunglasses, the officer touching his glasses, the thief seen through the fence, and the officer standing by his coffee at the end. GPT-6 Sol's take: the officer going over the couch, splashing through the rain after the thief, on a crate by the fence, below a fire escape the thief climbs, and standing beside the caught thief by police cars.
