Editorial policy

Our guides exist to be useful, not to rank. In practice those goals mostly agree, and where they conflict we choose usefulness. This page explains how the content is made.

How we research

Technical claims about model behaviour — supported durations, aspect ratio constraints, input modes, audio behaviour — come from the published BytePlus ModelArk documentation for Seedance 2.5 and from our own testing against the live API. Where the documentation and our observations disagree, we say so rather than quietly picking one.

Craft advice about prompting, style and structure comes from generating a large number of videos and noting what reliably changes the output. Where something is a judgement call rather than a measurable effect, we frame it as one.

What we will not do

• We do not invent statistics. If we cannot point to a source for a number, we do not publish the number.
• We do not fabricate testimonials or reviews. Any quotation attributed to a person is from a real person who agreed to it.
• We do not misrepresent competitors. Our buying guide describes criteria for evaluating tools rather than making claims about specific rivals we have not tested.
• We do not hide limitations. Several of our guides say plainly where AI animation fails, including where that argues against using our own product.

Keeping content current

Model capabilities move quickly. Every guide carries a visible "updated" date, and we revise pages when the underlying behaviour changes rather than leaving stale advice in place with a refreshed timestamp. Substantive revisions change the content, not just the date.

Corrections

If you find something wrong, email hello@cartoonvideocreator.com. We correct factual errors promptly. Where a correction materially changes the advice, we note what changed rather than silently editing.

Commercial relationship

We make the tool the guides describe, and the guides link to it. That is an obvious commercial interest and we would rather state it than pretend to neutrality. It is also why we work hard to be accurate about limitations: advice that oversells the technology produces frustrated users, which serves nobody.