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Sword Dance: a wuxia music video with one face and one choreography

7 min readAdvanced/sword-dance
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The /sword-dance skill in FilmMovie Studio works like a wuxia director: you own the idea, the app handles design, choreography and staging. It follows two iron laws — one choreographic phrase per clip, and one face for the whole film. That keeps the dancer from being recast mid-shot and ensures every clip carries exactly one named sword move. This guide walks the full loop, from a single sentence to a rendered clip in the ink-wash-meets-photoreal look.

What you'll need

  • FilmMovie Studio with a provider configured for image, video and audio (kie.ai or deAPI).
  • A one-sentence concept — a mood or a line is enough (e.g. "a girl in vermillion hanfu dancing at dusk as petals fall").
  • Optionally a face photo for likeness reference — attach it via the paperclip icon (it is not a face-swap; expect a resemblance, not an exact match).

Step by step

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    Launch the /sword-dance skill and give a concept

    In the Workspace, create a project and type /sword-dance in the chat panel, optionally adding the concept right after the command. If you want the dancer to resemble someone, attach a photo via the paperclip icon — the app uses it as a likeness reference, not a face-swap. Typed filenames won't work; attach the actual file.

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    Tip: One sentence about mood or story is enough. The skill fills in the staging, costume and lighting for you.
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    Pick the mood, setting and length

    The app opens a short brief with tabs. Choose the mood (Graceful / Fierce / Melancholic), the setting for the establishing shots (misty ridge, bamboo grove, temple courtyard or ancient study) and the length (30s = 3 dance beats, 45s = 6, 60s = 8). The aspect ratio is always 16:9.

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    Lock the character design (identity anchor)

    The skill generates one full-body design of the dancer in hanfu with a silver sword and jade hairpin. At the creative gate, click "Lock it in", or "Regenerate with notes" and add adjustments. The locked card is the identity anchor — it becomes the reference for every later frame.

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    Tip: This card is what guarantees one face for the whole film. It travels with every keyframe and every clip.
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    Let it create the two establishing shots

    The skill generates exactly two environment images with no dancer — the world before and around her. One should be vast and one intimate (e.g. a petal-filled sky and an empty study). The character design is deliberately not passed as a reference here, so no figure leaks into the clean environment.

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    Approve the choreography document (creative gate)

    The app drafts a document of named sword phrases (e.g. Drawing the Sword, Crouching River Strike, Sky-Pointing Finish) — for each beat a move, a camera shot and a tempo, building from a slow open to a strike. At the gate, choose "Approve", "Revise" or "Different mood". It won't continue without approval.

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    Tip: When revising, comment on the mood and the arc, not just the move names — the build matters more than the individual phrases.
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    Generate the keyframes and clips

    For each beat, a keyframe shows the dancer at the most legible instant of the move, with the character design as the first reference. Each keyframe then becomes a 6-second clip carrying a single phrase (4s for a strike, 8s for the finishing pose). Watch the canvas as cards appear and fill in.

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    Add the score and render the timeline

    The skill creates an instrumental track — guzheng with dizi flute and drums, tuned to your mood. It then opens the timeline, where clips and music auto-populate in the order establishing → dance beats → finish, and runs the render. Render is the terminal step — it drops a finished-clip card onto the canvas, saved locally.

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    Tip: Render is the loop's last step. To change anything, edit the keyframes or clips and render again.

What you get

The result is a short wuxia music video in a unified ink-wash-meets-photoreal look: an opening shot, a sequence of dance beats with one face and one phrase per clip, a closing shot and a guzheng score — all assembled on the timeline and rendered to a single file saved locally. You repeat the same loop (lock the character → approve the choreography → keyframes → clips → render) for any new concept.

Pro tips

  • The character design is the identity anchor: if a frame recasts the dancer (different face, costume or sword), regenerate it with the design as the first reference — never let an off-model frame reach video.
  • One phrase per clip. A clip that tries to hold two moves blurs both — split or trim the move instead.
  • The style suffix (ink-wash painting + photoreal, cinnabar red and gold in velvety darkness) is added verbatim. Avoid terms like "8K" or "masterpiece" — they spoil the look.

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