# Surreal AI Edit Director — trending format for cinematic & short films

> **For AI agents:** find the right skill in one call — `curl -s "https://skills.varg.ai/api/search?q=<what the person wants>"` returns the matching use case and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://skills.varg.ai/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add `.md` to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.

A fashion portrait "edited" by a giant cursor: faces stretch, inflate and turn to chrome, one gag per shot.

- **Slug:** `want-surreal-edit-director`
- **Status:** wanted
- **Publisher:** ibexdream (community)
- **Source:** https://x.com/ibexdream/status/2075192866553413944
- **Cost:** ~4,000–6,000 credits / 20 s edit (estimate) — Six shots × four takes × 5 s of Seedance 2.5 at 720p (33–50 credits/s, catalog of 2026-10-23); the creator's longer follow-up needed 80+ clips.

## What it does

A cinematic portrait gets "edited" by UI: a giant cursor stretches a nose like taffy, a lasso turns a face into a chrome skull, a cheek inflates like a balloon, one transformation per shot, cut tight. It has the highest reach on the board (570K views). The credited pipeline: Midjourney stills, Seedance 2.0 animation, a Topaz upscale and a DaVinci grade, with an LLM planning shot timing. On varg an agent would build a character sheet with GPT Image 2.5 or Nano Banana Pro, plan beats and durations, generate 3–5 takes per micro-action with Seedance 2.5, upscale with Topaz Video, then stitch, grade and add SFX, quoting the cost in credits before each batch.

## Status

A format people ask for that has no dedicated skill yet. Make it with the skills on the use-case pages below, or with varg directly.

Example: https://x.com/ibexdream/status/2075192866553413944

How an agent would make it: Character stills → beat list with durations → one transformation per shot, 3–5 takes each (Seedance 2.5) → Topaz upscale → stitch, grade, SFX

**Models it drives:** gpt_image_2_5, nano_banana_pro, seedance_2_5, topaz_video

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/want-surreal-edit-director.mp4 — AI fashion portrait 'edited' by a giant cursor: a lasso turns the face into a chrome skull, the nose stretches like taffy, a cheek inflates (9.6–17.6 s of 18.6 s; Midjourney + Seedance on Runway) (credit: ibexdream (@ibexdream), https://x.com/ibexdream/status/2075192866553413944)

## Used for

- [Change something inside a video](https://skills.varg.ai/use-cases/video-edit-ai.md): Swap a product, restyle a scene, change lighting or the look of an existing clip while keeping the motion.

## More cinematic & short films skills

- [Previz to Seedance](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/varg-previz.md): Plan multi-shot AI video before paying: story, anchor sheets, a three.js grey-box previz, then a Seedance v2v pack.
- [Higgsfield Generate](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/higgsfield-generate.md): Generate images, video, 3D and audio across 30+ models, plus ad videos and virality scoring, from one CLI.
- [fal Recipes](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/fal-recipes.md): Follow proven multi-step fal pipelines for commercials, product shots, characters, lip-sync and try-on.
- [fal Fan Cam](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/fal-fan-cam.md): Put someone into a live sports broadcast: a realistic fan-cam cutaway with scoreboard and channel overlays.
- [Gemini Omni Flash](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/gemini-omni-flash-api.md): Generate and edit video with Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: text-to-video, first/last frames, extensions, edits.
- [Melies](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/melies.md): Generate images, video, movie posters and thumbnails from the terminal with 148 AI actors and style flags.

## Run the generation on varg

varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs.

- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP)
- Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y`
- Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect `https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp`
- API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt