Seedream 5.5

ByteDance's image model, the first-frame half of the Seedance pipeline, opened to all Dreamina users with more natural portraits, without the greasy, airbrushed look, text it put at 95% accurate even in dense layouts, edits that change a selected area and leave the rest pixel-for-pixel untouched however many times the image is refined, and transparent and semi-transparent assets from a single prompt, with clean edges on hair and sheer fabric, ready to reuse across scenes. Its predecessor Seedream 5.0 Pro was already in the toolchains of films like Kagome, and within a day Pika had it in its Image Studio, splitting images into a hundred-plus editable layers.