The full film, and the workflow behind it

The film closes back where it opened — "I'll be at the cafe in ten minutes. Would you like the long route or the short one?" — and then plays straight through, wordlessly, from Scene 1 to the restaurant table. Same hero, same watch, eight completely different styles, one continuous story.

That replay is the real proof of the experiment: the character and the plot never drift, only the art style on top of them changes scene to scene.

The four-step loop, every scene

Strip away the styles and every one of the eight scenes was built the same way. Claude writes the shot's prompt. Seedance 2.0 executes it. Soul Cinema and Nano Banana Pro supply the visual building blocks. And the previous scene's finished video carries forward as the reference for the next one, which is what keeps the hero (and his watch) consistent instead of drifting between cuts.

That last handoff is the one to steal for your own shorts: feed the next scene your last scene's finished video as its reference, not just a text description of the character. A text description drifts over generations — a video reference doesn't.