you don't have to describe a pose to Ideogram 4.5

something I like about Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 is the video extension feature, works so nicely!

threw the newest video models at one 10-second one-shot: a sword duel in a bamboo grove Wan 3.0, LTX 2.5 Pro, Flux 3, Minimax H3 same prompt for all four

Seedance 2.5 dropped today. Most image-to-video takes one frame, or a first and last. This one takes a whole storyboard. I fed it 3 painted keyframes, a calm stream, then rapids, then the open sea. It moved a paper boat through all three, inventing the motion between them and holding the watercolor style. The trigger is just: "Use Images 1 to 3 in order as keyframes." You can pass up to 30. One catch: keyframes guide, they don't pin. The model approximates each frame instead of locking to it, and a short clip only fits a handful of beats before each one runs too short.

A trick I have not seen anyone else post: write image prompts like code, and the model runs it. Image models like GPT Image 2 or Nano Banana 2 read the prompt instead of squashing it into a fixed embedding the way diffusion models do. So a function call written in the prompt actually runs. - sum(3, 8) does the math and writes 11 on the card. - pick("wolf", "owl", "lion", "stag") chooses the animal. - random_color() sets the palette, and it takes arguments too, like random_color(pastel=True). Now your prompt is a template. Lock the style, leave the parts you want to change as function calls, and run it as many times as you want. Pseudo-code as the engine of creativity. I built this whole tarot set from this prompt: A tarot card. Numeral at the top: sum(3, 8). Central animal: pick("wolf", "owl", "lion", "stag", "raven", "serpent", "bear", "fox"). Color scheme: random_color(). Ornate art nouveau border, fine linework, painterly illustration, no text. One caveat: the model gets biased toward certain results in a given context. The more precise you make the options, through arguments or naming like random_bright_color(), the more it steers away from that bias.