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SkyProduction and Seedance 2.5 launch Mid-Autumn and National Day promotion with 70% first-purchase credit bonus

SkyProduction and Volcano Engine's Seedance 2.5 have launched a Mid-Autumn and National Day promotion running from September 15, offering a 70% first-purchase credit bonus, DramaWave 4x traffic weighting codes and short-drama production rights for large top-ups.

AI News Feed · 2026-09-17 14:39

Under the first benefit, which runs from September 15 to October 15, members who buy Seedance 2.5 dedicated credit packs receive a 70 percent bonus on a first purchase and 20 percent on subsequent purchases. All top-up tiers share a single first-purchase opportunity, and the credits are valid for 365 days. The credits are restricted to the Seedance 2.5 model. Purchases at specified tiers also carry free MiniMax H3 access: 1,000 yuan for one day, 2,000 yuan for three days, 5,000 yuan for five days, 10,000 yuan for seven days, and 20,000 yuan or more for up to ten days.

SkyProduction said team annual cards lower long-run costs further. Measured on Seedance 2.5 at 720P with no video input, a team annual card brings the unit price down to as low as 0.45 yuan per second. The company has opened AI short-drama bases in Beijing Yizhuang and Shanghai Xuhui; onboarding is handled online and teams do not have to relocate. Base members receive additional Seedance 2.5 dedicated credits, DramaWave traffic support and access to DramaWave production projects, with the Seedance 2.5 720P rate falling to as low as 0.32 yuan per second.

The second benefit connects compute spending to distribution. Starting at 00:00 on September 1, 2026, every cumulative 200,000 credits successfully consumed on SkyProduction generates one DramaWave 4x traffic distribution weighting redemption code; 400,000 credits generate two codes, and so on. A team finishes a drama on SkyProduction, reaches the consumption threshold, generates a code, uploads the drama to DramaWave and enters the code at the app's reward redemption entry. Each code can be bound to only one drama and is valid for 90 days after generation. Expired codes do not return the corresponding accumulated consumption, so the announcement advises teams to redeem according to their production and release schedules.

The third benefit covers commercial production. From the announcement date until November 30, 2026, a single top-up of 500,000 yuan earns the right to produce one DramaWave AI short drama, and multiple top-ups earn rights to multiple dramas. The top-up is dedicated to Seedance series models — Seedance 2.5, Seedance 2.0 and Seedance 2.0 Fast — and teams can distribute the amount among the three, although credits earned on each model can be used only on that model. The credits are valid for three months, are cleared automatically if unused and are not refundable. SkyProduction said the benefit is intended for teams with stable output that can deliver a complete drama.

Teams already based at the Beijing Yizhuang or Shanghai Xuhui bases can ask about base-specific top-up policies. Under current base rules, a single purchase of a 500,000 yuan credit pack together with the required qualification submission can yield up to 6.54 million credits and the corresponding DramaWave production benefit. Eligibility, credit issuance and project production conditions remain subject to base review and final confirmation by both sides, the announcement said.

Alongside the pricing measures, SkyProduction lists several workflow features intended to reduce waste. A 720-degree panoramic inference function takes a single uploaded image and derives a surrounding space that can be shot from multiple angles, helping maintain scene consistency across camera positions. A 3D director's console allows teams to arrange character blocking, action, shot size and composition before moving into video generation. Segment re-shooting allows a flawed section of a generated clip to be remade without regenerating the entire video, and deep motion capture extracts spatial depth and motion trajectories from a reference video so a new character can replicate the action in a new scene.

The announcement argues that lowering the per-second price is only a first step, and that cutting failed generations and retries is what reduces the overall cost of a drama. The company's site is listed as www.skyproduction.cn. The material was provided by Kunlun Wanwei and republished by QbitAI.