# Seedream 5.5

- Date: 2026-11-09
- Type: model
- Credit: ByteDance
- Post: https://x.com/dreamina_ai/status/2119751497282125949
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/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](https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/kagome-sasha-fevralskaya), and within a day Pika had it in its Image Studio, splitting images into a hundred-plus editable layers.

Links:
- Pika on X: Seedream 5.5 in Image Studio: https://x.com/pika_labs/status/2120218181063340316

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/seedream-5-5
Era: Late 2026 · Prime Time
Last updated: 2026-11-14