⭐ Storyboard MCP · Viral-dance-short

Monster Dance CrewThree original monsters. One neon alley. Ten seconds. TikTok-ready.

The fastest flagship in the catalogue. One ensemble keyframe → one 10-second animation → one music bed → one caption overlay. The viral-dance-short playbook is built to take ANY user-provided characters and ANY dance style and deliver a vertical short ready to upload to TikTok / Douyin / Shorts / Reels — no IP-protected likenesses, no copyrighted choreography quoting, just original characters doing abstract movement primitives the AI video models can reliably render.

runtime

10.0 seconds

aspect

9:16 · 1080×1920

cast

3 original monsters

style

neon shuffle dance

pipeline

1 keyframe + 1 i2v + 1 music

The reel · 1080×192010.0s · TikTok-ready · caption + music

The cast — original characters, written fresh per run, not derivative of any IP

Every character spec is rendered freshly per run from a short description. The playbook explicitly refuses to render Pixar/Disney/Studio-Ghibli/anime-franchise character likenesses — if a user asks for "the Monsters Inc crew", the agent offers to invent an original monster trio in the same buddy-comedy spirit. Below is the trio used for THIS example. Bring your own cast and the agent generates yours instead.

Bramble

Tall lavender-fuzzy monster with a soft round body, three small round eyes in a triangle, floppy bunny-like ears, a darker plum tuft on top of the head, four-fingered gangly arms. No horns.

Sprig

Short squat brown-and-cream forest-spirit creature with big anime-style glossy round eyes, two tiny stub horns, a tuft of cream fur between the horns, stubby clay-like arms.

Ozzie

Tall round-bodied bright-pink-and-magenta monster with smooth glossy plastic-like skin, two large oval eyes, wide round friendly mouth, four wavy tentacle-like arms (two on each side).

The dance — abstract movement primitives, not a copyrighted choreography

The playbook never passes a specific viral-choreographer's named routine to the i2v model. It rewrites every brief into generic movement verbs that AI video models can reliably render — sway, hop-step, arm-wave, twist, spin, point. The viewer reads "synchronized dance" from the group framing + rhythm, not from millisecond-accurate copy of any specific viral video.

0–2s — All three step forward in unison, hands up to start
2–4s — Side-to-side sway with stiff arms (the zombie-shuffle signature)
4–6s — Synchronized arm-wave, left arm up then right arm up
6–8s — Hop-step forward toward camera with a tiny hip twist
8–10s — Final pose, all arms raised, big group smile

Caption: "the new monsters in town" — single hook line, ≤6 words, bold Impact-style white with heavy black drop-shadow, displayed 0.4–9.5s. The TikTok caption discipline: one line, big text, never moves.

Music brief: ~120 BPM playful spooky-fun electronic beat, light synth bass + finger-claps on 2 and 4, occasional wobble bass, no vocals. Builds energy across the 10s. The audio equivalent of three friendly monsters shuffling under neon lights.

Pipeline trace — the fastest flagship in the catalogue

Wave 1 — keyframe + music (fired in parallel) 1 × create_media action=generate, model=gpt-image, aspect_ratio=9:16 → done in ~159s, NO IP characters, NO readable text 1 × create_media action=music, model=minimax-music, ~120 BPM playful electronic → done in ~57s
Wave 2 — i2v 10s animation 1 × create_media action=animate, model=kling-v3-i2v, duration=10, abstract dance primitives → done
Wave 3 — local stitch (ffmpeg + Pillow) Pillow renders ONE bold Impact-style caption PNG (white + black drop-shadow) ffmpeg normalize: kling 1108×828 → 1080×1920 portrait (scale + crop) ffmpeg overlay: caption shown 0.4–9.5s at y=1650 (safe area above the TikTok UI overlay zone) ffmpeg mix: clip audio dropped, music @ 1.0 with afade in/out output: monster-dance-crew-short.mp4 (~3-5MB, 10.0s)
Guard-rails applied ✓ NO IP-character likenesses (Pixar/Disney/Ghibli/anime — refused at brief stage) ✓ NO copyrighted choreography quoting (specific viral names rewritten to generic verbs) ✓ NO readable text in keyframe (TikTok caption is burned in at ffmpeg stage) ✓ Single shot, no mid-clip cuts (i2v doesn't do cuts cleanly) ✓ Synchronized movement vocabulary (sway, hop, arm-wave) not precise choreography

Cost — total run end-to-end

Keyframe

~$0.20

1 × gpt-image

i2v animation

~$1.10

1 × kling-v3-i2v 10s

Music

~$0.40

1 × minimax-music

Total

~$1.70

under the $2.50 flagship target

Reproduce with your own cast — the playbook is open

This reel was built from the viral-dance-short playbook. The same 3-wave + 1-stitch pipeline works for any cast of 2-5 original characters performing any abstract synchronized choreography in any setting — robot crew on a rooftop, fox-suited dancers in a forest clearing, pixel-art sprites on an arcade floor. Pick a cast, pick a dance style, pick a setting and caption, run. ~$1.70 and ~5 minutes later you have a TikTok-ready 10-second short.