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concept Updated 2026-08-05 Tags: Ai, Video, Workflow, Directing, Short-Drama

AI Director-Core Workflow

AI director-core workflow is the production pattern described in 从央视纪录片到爆款 AI 短剧：第一批「转身」的导演 | S10E11 where AI short-drama teams organize around a director’s script, asset, storyboard, and performance judgment rather than around undifferentiated prompt labor. 抽象仔 / Chouxiangzai and 台台 / Taitai describe a shift from “抽卡师” execution toward directors who can tell models what scene, movement, emotion, and shot they want.

The workflow begins before generation. The source says a strong IP and script decide most of a project’s odds, while the team spends several days to a week building character, scene, prop, and style assets. Production then runs through storyboards and model-specific generation, with assistants handling repetitive work such as lip sync while the director focuses on one-to-three-minute segments.

This concept extends AI Video Production Workflow by naming the organizational center of the workflow. Better Video Models such as Seedance/C-DANCE 2.0 reduce some low-level selection work, but they increase the value of people who can define the scene, judge model outputs, preserve continuity, and choose performances that match the story.

Key Claims

  • AI short-drama production does not become automatic when video models improve; the bottleneck moves upstream to script, IP, assets, storyboards, and directing language.
  • “抽卡师” was a transitional role tied to text-to-image and image-to-video generation, where the first image strongly determined the clip.
  • Multi-reference generation can reduce the need for low-level draw labor by letting character, background, and asset references enter the model together.
  • The director’s ability to “speak to AI” becomes a production capability: the prompt is closer to giving performance direction than to typing a tool command.
  • Human review remains central because repeated generations create options, not final creative judgment.

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