Seedance 2.0 Mini

• 🎬 ByteDance image-to-video model animating a still with cinematic motion
• 🆕 Lightweight "Mini" tier of the Seedance 2.0 family
• 🔊 Native audio-visual joint generation built into the model
• 👁️ Animates a starting image from a text-described motion prompt
• 🎥 Camera control, lighting, shadow, and realistic physics
• 🎯 Part of the Seedance 2.0 generation released June 2026
• 🏢 Built by ByteDance's Seed team

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 Mini (image-to-video) is the lightweight tier of ByteDance's flagship Seedance 2.0 video family, released in June 2026. You provide a starting image and a text prompt describing the desired motion, and the model animates the frame with cinematic camera control, realistic physics, and synchronized audio in a single pass. According to ByteDance's Seed team, Seedance 2.0 emphasizes motion stability and audio-video joint generation, with control over performance, lighting, shadow, and camera movement.

It sits alongside the prompt-only Seedance 2.0 Mini and the multi-reference Seedance 2.0 Mini R2V, which all share the same generation timestamp. Compared with the full Seedance 2.0 and higher-end Seedance 2.0 Enhanced tiers, the Mini variant is a lighter configuration within the same generation.

Within the broader generational arc, the 2.0 line follows earlier releases such as Seedance 1.5 Pro and the faster Seedance 2.0 Fast. The Seedance 2.0 family emphasizes native audio synthesis, real-world physics simulation, and cinematic camera control.