Wan 3.0 vs Seedance 2.5 - same viral video There is only one ruler and it's clear who prompt: Raw vertical phone video (UGC), handheld throughout, filmed by a friend who walks with the group, casual sway, natural night lighting, wide-angle lens, deep focus. Characters The hero is a... young woman with long dark hair in a deep-purple one-shoulder dress with a small shoulder bag. Her three friends: one in a dark brown dress, a blonde in a black wrap dress, a blonde in a white mini dress — party dresses and sandals. Laughing, spontaneous night-out energy. Setting A luxury marina at night — a stone quay along a narrow water slip flanked on both sides by large moored luxury yachts, big white hulls rising on either side, masts and rigging above, fenders on the hulls. Warm orange street lamps, palm trees, distant city lights. The yachts glow with blue-turquoise underwater LED lights spilling into the water; a yellow mooring line runs to the stone. Shot list 0.0s–4.0s — Wide tracking shot, eye level, camera moving backward The camera walks backward ahead of the four women as they stroll toward it down the marina promenade, framed head-to-toe, laughing and chatting in French; warm lamplight and palm trees behind, slight handheld bob. 4.0s–6.0s — Medium shot, eye level, backward track + quick left pan The woman in the purple dress surges ahead of the group toward the lens, one arm raised, hair flying; the camera, on their left, keeps tracking back and pans to hold her. 6.0s–8.0s — Medium-wide, camera tilts down-left to follow, whip motion She reaches the quay edge between the moored luxury yachts and launches headfirst over the edge; the handheld camera whips left and tilts down to chase her off the stone. 8.0s–10.0s — High-angle wide, looking down at the water, slight jolt From up on the quay the camera looks down as she plunges headfirst into the blue-turquoise water in the slip between the big yacht hulls — a big splash, the underwater lights glowing around the impact; the handheld frame jolts slightly with the motion. 10.0s–13.0s — High-angle medium, looking down, small handheld drift She surfaces in the teal water, gasping and laughing up at the camera, hair slicked back, treading water. 13.0s–16.0s — Handheld tilt up and back down, slight zoom The camera lifts off the water and tilts up to a person leaning on the deck railing of one of the moored luxury yachts, watching her in the water, then tilts back down and zooms slightly in on her still treading and laughing. 16.0s–20.0s — High-angle medium, tilting to follow her up She swims to the stone quay wall, reaches up and grabs a thick dark mooring pole, and hauls herself out; the camera tilts upward with her as she rises from the water, legs braced on the stone. 20.0s–23.0s — Low/close medium at the quay edge, static handheld She climbs onto the stone lip, rolls onto her side, soaked dress clinging, then pushes up to her feet; the camera holds close, catching the water running off her. 23.0s–27.0s — Medium shot, eye level, loose handheld reframe Back on the promenade, dripping wet, she flips her long wet hair forward and wrings it out, laughing, as her friends and passing pedestrians move behind her. 27.0s–30.0s — Medium shot, eye level, camera settles Still dripping, she straightens up and strikes a confident, playful pose for the camera — hand on hip, tossing her wet hair back with a big smile — her friends laughing around her; the camera holds on the pose to end. Audio Live sync sound — friends laughing and shouting excitedly in French, a scream at the leap, a big water splash, water sloshing against the yacht hulls, wet footsteps on stone, ambient night marina sounds. No music. Style Raw amateur vertical phone footage, natural night lighting, warm street lamps mixing with the turquoise underwater yacht glow, authentic handheld motion.show more

Seedance is a lot more iPhone-hdr-night-shit, but Wan is ugly, screams AI.

Wan = plastic

Sedance 4.0 will be full reality

💯

Seedance is more filmic and believable in low light. Movement is also better on Seedance, despite the worse resolution of the video

Low res tricks the viewer

If you consider the prompt, shot on a phone then the lighting is actually very accurate. Small lenses means you get this smearing and light exposure level. For video its the movement that counts, same thing in video games. The last of us and Uncharted look great due to the realism of the animations and the lighting model. The texture resolution is not nearly as important past a certain baseline

And other than the theory stuff which one looks more loyal to the prompt intention?

Ive seen other examples also. Wan is impressive for the cost for sure but these issues are repeated. Its lighting, contrast, movement and general shot quality is a generation behind seedance. Its detail is higher however. Theres definitely a place for Wan for creating product or physical location shots, but maybe not quite for UGC

Quite lousy for UGC tbh

Agreed

Wow. Seedance 2.5 is better and more realistic here. 💯 for scenes, layouts and character consistency.

correct

Wan 3 is impressive and for me more natural

Really?

for me yes ,but is only my personal opinion i haven't still tested ,but looking the video you posted i fid Wn 3 more natural

@mightyking You need to get your eyes checked

@mightyking learn manners first

WAN hallucinated a place when thé girl is running

@Amir_Intel WAN in general looks like crisp wrong output

WAN is keep getting better

Still plastic though

i know it can't compare to Seedance

The only real competition for Seedance is H3, and it's mostly for Anime stuff where it sometimes can even feel better other video models are miles behind those two

H3 is flop for realism

Not even tried to go with realism with it since I still have unlimited Seedance for a while :D But with anime gens the only thing where H3 will fall off are voices, Seedance 2.5 finally has good speech while 2.0 had embarrassing audio quality for that expensive model :D

Tried your prompt on Grok... poor Grok.

long way to grok

Seendance 2.5: the woman’s movements are reminiscent of those of a dolphin or a sea lion coming out of the water 🤣. Movements and respect for physical laws seem better preserved in this example by Wan 3.0.

But wan also looked for the easy way out with the ladder

Problem is Wan can't act and is slow in movements.

and also makes up a ladder to deal with the decision on how to get the girl out of the water

I am talking about the model in general based on a ton of gens I did for my own daily work. Wouldn't judge a model based on a specific output here on X.

Wan's lights a little too perfect like a movie set. The struggle/gravity of the climb more impressive in Seedance.

Wan is cookin

Ya just trollin

Wan 3.0 turns the bottom of the marina in to a swimming pool & breaks visual continuity with her run up. Wan gets bonus points for the ladder. Ugly sandals in Wan lose a point. Sandals vanish in both before she dives, but reappear in Wan on water exit. SD 2.0 just wins.

The ladder because it knew it will mess up without it. it's actually a point lost

Putting the ladder in shows Wan 3.0 performing critical thinking. In Seedance 2.5, there's no way she gets out the water, and it even shows here defying gravity to get out.

critical thinking? if there is no one that thinks, who is the thinker?

Seedance has a flawless victory

True that

WAN 3 is impressive with the body movements! Just pay attention to the muscles and tension; you can see every step has an impact on the legs and the arms. No reaction on the body of seedance 2.5. But besides that, still a little too much plastic, seedance 2.5 feels more natural but impressive work from wan!

plastic remains the biggest issue of opensource models

Where is her purse 🤨🤨

she never had one

😅

SEEDANCE ist real

Richtig

Ja, Viele Danke

Wan = AI SLOP

100%

In terms of realism, Seedance just wins.

every single time

This is truly amazing Wan 3.0 looks much more realistic it just struggles with consistency, the woman jumps in with slippers but then it disappears just before she enters the water

Wan is the clear loser

just need to fix their movement, model vision already looks realistic enough for seedance.

Nah, still plastic minimax style

i'm talking about the left one (seedance 2.5) not the right side one (wan 3.0)

Seedance 2.5 is so fucking real. Broo

I know, right?

But too dmn expensive... I love free products cos I can't afford them yet..

The Wan 3.0 video gives better quality, but it somehow has more of an "AI" vibe. It looks less natural.

to me not

They are both not perfect, but seedance wins it.

I agree

What's the problem with AI is that every videos are so perfect. perfect lightings perfect camera movement. Most of the times we see the character has a proper 3 points lighting on them, whether is it indoor, outdoor. But in this comparison. Seedance is more natural as compared to Wan 3.0

Flux 4 might challenge those problems

Then I'd like to try that

Wan looks way more real

Where’s the pasta?

that test is dead

It was a joke ;)

W3 awesome

Seriously?

seedance was more realistic to me. to be honest until lately I wasn't been aware its AI

it's scary

Actually, I prefer Seadance. But in this case, to be honest, I like the video by Wan even better.

you just seek attention don't you

Personally, I use Seadance and Kling almost exclusively. However, I noticed several details in these two videos that I prefer in the Wan video. For instance, the climbing-up scene feels more realistic to me in the Wan video.

seedance win 💯

I like how this “oversharpened smartphone video” style was captured by WAN3 . In this case, Seedance 2.5 gives a lame result, but it seems more like a skill issue.

ragebait

Wan was relevant only at 2.2 time, now is bad, overpriced model for gooners. And H3 will do gooning better so WAN is model for retarded gooners

Goon to the moon

Seedance 2.5 BEAST

correct