The Ultimate Guide to Face Detection
You’re trying to generate a video with a specific face, but the strict face detection algorithm completely blocks your prompt.
I tested every hack on the internet.
I've narrowed down what actually works into 3 distinct categories.
Educational purposes only. No non-consensual content, deepfakes, or impersonation. Bypassing algorithms risks account suspension. Proceed at your own risk.
Let's get right into it.
For users located in China or those with access to ByteDance’s domestic apps.
For using your own face.
Open app > Profile (我的) > Select 创建分身 (Create Avatar).
The camera automatically opens. Scan your face to register it as a verified asset.
Simply type the "@" symbol, select your new avatar, and create your video.
*Will include the Jimeng watermark.
Alternative for your own face.
Go to the 3rd tab, tap "发咕咕" twice.
Enter "@", choose 创建新角色 > 录制真人形象.
Scan face to register. Use @ to generate.
Don't want to scan your own face?
Go to xyq.jianying.com on your desktop.
Click the + icon, choose 角色库 (Character Library).
Navigate to 公共角色 (Public Characters). Pick one and add to scene.
Avatars created on the XYQ mobile app will automatically appear on the website under your clone characters.
ByteDance gave special permissions to select 3rd-party partners. We will use Cyberbara.
Head to Cyberbara.com and click on "Canvas" in the header.
Sign in with Google, X, or sign up with your email.
Drag and drop your portrait image directly onto the canvas.
Drag a line out from your image, choose "Video Node".
Select Seedance 2.0. Hover over your image thumbnail and click "@imageN".
Because Cyberbara is whitelisted, you get your video with zero face-detection blocks and no pre-processing.
ByteDance constantly updates their algorithms. A prompt that works perfectly today might be patched by tomorrow.
Hide the face from the security algorithm while keeping it visible to the AI generation engine.
Open GPT Image 2 and upload your photo.
Ask for a high-quality "cinematic character design board." Explicitly include a name, age, build, and clothing details.
Force the layout to include a main full-body portrait, full-body turnarounds, and head studies from different angles.
Why? You trick the AI into viewing the image as a 2D pitch board rather than a real human photograph.
Create a high-quality cinematic character design board. Explicitly include a name, age, build, and clothing details. Force the layout to include a main full-body portrait, full-body turnarounds, and head studies from different angles.
In GPT Image 2, ask it to keep features intact but create a "deconstructed portrait collage."
Tell it to scatter isolated features on a pure white background (rectangular cut-outs of eyes, nose, mouth, hair).
Use this fragmented face puzzle as your image reference in Seedance. It scrambles the detector, but the AI engine pieces it back together.
Keep the facial features and hair intact, but create a deconstructed portrait collage. Scatter isolated facial features on a pure white background using segmented rectangular cut-outs of the eyes, nose, mouth, and hair.
Process photo into a horizontal sheet (45° left, front, 45° right). Tell it to render in a traditional colored pencil illustration style.
Take that sketch directly into Seedance 2.0.
Process this input photo into a horizontal character design sheet showing three views side-by-side: a 45-degree left profile, a front view, and a 45-degree right profile. Render this in a traditional colored pencil illustration style.
Add this prefix in Seedance to ensure the video doesn't look like a cartoon.
Reference the uploaded character design to generate an ultra-realistic live-action video. Ensure cinematic lighting, detailed skin, and strict consistency in features.
Go to Cyberbara's free Seedance bypass tool.
Upload photo and apply a mask (grid overlay, scenery overlay, or giant X-mark).
Download and run through Seedance. The overlay hides the face from the bot, but AI recognizes underlying features.
All links and full prompts are in the description.
Thanks for watching! — Zero Lu