Seedance 2.0

• 🎬 ByteDance's flagship image-to-video model from the Seed division
• 🆕 Part of the Seedance 2.0 generation, released 2026
• 👁️ Animates a provided starting image from a text motion prompt
• 🎯 Family emphasizes realistic motion and scene consistency
• 🔧 Aimed at cinematic-quality video generation
• 🏢 Built by ByteDance, the company behind TikTok
• ⚡ A faster Seedance 2.0 Fast variant is also offered
• 💬 Sits alongside text-to-video and reference-to-video siblings

ByteDance

ByteDance is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Beijing, widely known as the parent company behind TikTok and Douyin. Beyond social media, ByteDance has invested heavily in artificial intelligence research, building generative media models…

Seedance 2.0 Image-to-Video is part of ByteDance's flagship video family from the Seed research division, released in 2026. You provide a starting image together with a text motion prompt, and the model animates the frame to produce a video clip. According to the catalog, the Seedance family emphasizes realistic motion, scene consistency, and cinematic quality.

It is the successor generation to Seedance 1.5 Pro, which ByteDance released earlier in 2026 within the same image-to-video lineage. Beyond that generational positioning, detailed specifications for the 2.0 release could not be confirmed against primary or independent sources at the time of writing.

Within the 2.0 lineup, this image-to-video endpoint sits alongside Seedance 2.0 for prompt-only generation and Seedance 2.0 R2V, which accepts reference media as input. For faster iteration, Seedance 2.0 Fast offers a lower-latency alternative in the same family. Together these endpoints cover text-driven, image-driven, and reference-driven video workflows from a single generational release.