I have long maintained that AI video is nowhere near at a level of audio/video quality that meets my standards, as evidenced by numerous attempts I’ve seen throughout the death fetish community. That changed, two months ago, when ByteDance released Seedance 2, and it’s right on the line for what I would be willing to pay for and use for creating fetish-themed AI videos.
Content filters aside, Krea.ai is my platform of choice for creating fetish-themed AI art because their interface is the most well-designed, most intuitive I’ve seen across the AI platforms I’ve tried – that includes BudgetPixel.com, Venice.ai, GetArtCraft.com, and Google. They have Seedance 2, and last week, they let their subscribers have unlimited access to it. Up to 15 seconds of video (the model’s maximum length) at 480p or 720p (it’s capable of 1080p), and as many iterations as we could render for 7 days, free of charge. Their normal rate is 3,371 credits for a 15-sec clip at 720p, or about $5/clip.
The first few days of the promotion were creative nirvana. Sadly, it all went to shit Thursday night. The demand proved too much tor their servers, and no one could render anything with Seedance for the remainder of the event. The promotion ended at midnight Monday morning, and the only compensation they’re giving new members who joined for the promotion is 20,000 credits if they rendered less than 5 videos. I joined their Individua Max plan for a year last November, so I wasn’t monetarily effected, but the technical issues were no less annoying, and briefly drove me to Venice.ai over the weekend so I could finish one last project I had started on Krea.
Seedance is a spectacular model, but it’s not perfect. One significant drawback is that ByteDance requires selfie verification to use photoreal faces in an effort to keep users from generating copyrighted characters and deepfakes of real people. I understand their concerns, and appreciate their efforts, but there’s got to be a better, less intrusive method than requiring a selfie. Worse, even if you verify yourself, there’s no guarantee it’ll work – as reported by a handful of users on Krea’s Discord – and you’re limited to using your own face as an image reference. Apparently, Krea misunderstood that little detail, so they disabled the requirement for their promo. Unfortunately, they re-enabled it after briefly fixing their server issues on Saturday, thus putting the kibosh image references that use even AI-generated people. For the record, I don’t use deepfakes.
It’s also far too expensive for me to even consider using on the regular. Case in point, it cost me $50 and 15 iterations of the foot shot in Hanged in Silence before Seedance produced a version I could work with using another platform while the model was down on Krea. Unless the price drops, or Krea runs another promotion someday, I’m sticking with static images.
Thankfully, I managed to complete twelve and a half projects using Seedance during the promotion, and only one of them, Broken Tranquility, doesn’t include a face. It’s among seven other videos I made to share with the fantasy death fetish community, and they’re now available here on my site for your viewing pleasure.
That said, I hope you enjoy my first efforts at fetish-themed AI videos!