I thought so too at first, but zoom in to where the neck joins the head. What looks like the head’s shadow from a distance is actually a hard seam between thick neck and thin neck, with much of the apparent shadow actually a cutout showing the background.

Looks like the Seedream result here has been changed to fail, which I’d agree with, too. Pose change complaints aside, I think that neck is actually the same length were it held straight.

I agree, it seems like Seedream has the neck at same length as Nano Banana but also made the giraffe crouch down, making a major modification to the overall picture.

If you look closely, the NBP giraffe has a gaping hole in it's neck.

maybe that's just how his mom built him

yeah i agree, the prompt is to "shorten the giraffe's neck length", not to bent it. i feel like the Gemini 3 produces better result on that one