Some posts present a tool. Others present a moment. The post that Itai Gal, visual content creator and content manager at Appsflyer, published today belongs to the second category.

"I've decided to come out of the closet," he writes. "After sharing here over the years my creations as an AI video artist, I need to admit that deep inside... I'm also a regular artist. Sometimes, when nobody's watching... I actually draw things myself. Sometimes I even use a pen. I know it's shocking. I hope you accept me for who I am."

What Seedance 2.0 Did That No Other Tool Could

Gal has been drawing since childhood. He worked with Adobe Flash, made animations, and loved the medium deeply. As he watched AI video models develop, he started feeling sad - real animators are going extinct, he thought, and what remains are characters generated from prompts.

But access to Seedance 2.0 changed that perspective entirely.

His experiment was simple and precise: he drew one frame in his own personal style and uploaded it to the model, asking it to create the in-between frames while preserving his style. Every previous time he'd tried this with other models - his drawing got distorted, movements were inconsistent, and the result felt like the typical AI slop everyone recognizes.

Seedance did exactly what he wanted. Every additional frame it created looks like Gal himself sat down and worked on it. New angles of the character preserved all the environmental objects with impressive precision. "I'm looking at it and can't believe I didn't make this myself on Adobe Flash in 2007."

Why This Is Different From Every Other AI Story

Most AI animation demonstrations focus on the tool's capabilities: look what it can generate, look how realistic it is, look how fast. Gal doesn't talk about any of that. He talks about preservation.

Preserving personal style is the thing creators feared losing. It's not just a matter of copyright or ownership - it's the voice. The way someone holds a pen, their line quality, the aesthetic decisions built up over years. If AI can identify and preserve that unique voice instead of replacing it with an averaged, uniform version - something fundamental has changed.

Gal frames it as collaboration: "The art, design and style are mine. The in-between animating is AI." The model didn't steal the dream - it helped realize it.

The Conclusion Gal Didn't Say Explicitly

The post is funny, personal, and moving all at once. It tells the story of a childhood dream that seemed impossible without an entire studio. Adobe Flash was a tool, but full animation is months of work - not a single day.

Now, from 2 frames Gal drew by hand, Seedance created a complete film that looks like his. Not like an AI imitating him. Like him.

That might be the most important thing a content creator can hear about AI in 2026: not "the tool will replace you" and not "the tool just helps you." But - the right tool can give you access to a dream that waited 17 years.