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Animate a Photo with AI

Turn a single shot into a short living video — with expression, gaze and camera movement.

Free, no cardHow it works
Original photographPhoto
Video

One shot — and it already moves

Any shot

A portrait, a story scene, anime or art.

2 seconds, mp4

A living cover, a story or a looping background.

Ready in a couple of minutes

Upload a photo, pick a movement and get the result.

Choose a movement

One photo — three different movements.

Original photographPhoto

  • You writeA blown kiss and an innocent look

  • You writeLaughing

  • Ready-made movement modesLive photo

Or describe your own movement in words
With sound

Two shots of one story — and they started to speak

Sound is created together with the movement — no need to record it separately. Turn it on and the shots speak in turn, like a scene.

Photo
Photo
A clip with sound — 6 limits, from $0.34

How to animate your own photo: three steps in your account

  1. 1
    Pick your photographA character portrait, a scene frame, an archive shot — any image from your device.
  2. 2
    Describe the movementTake a ready scenario from the catalogue below, or write in your own words what should happen in the frame.
  3. 3
    Download the finished videoThe neural network returns the clip in a couple of minutes. The mp4 file can be saved to your device and posted anywhere.

What comes alive in the frame

This is not an effect laid over a picture: the neural network draws in frames that were never there, and everything that would move in real life moves.

The original shotThe original shot
The same shot, moving

Comes alive

  • Expression and gaze
  • Breathing and head turn
  • Hair and fabric
  • Camera

Taken from your shot

  • Composition and proportions
  • Setting and light

Write in words — get movement

Movement is set with an ordinary phrase — no jargon, no settings. Under every clip is the description that produced it.

  • Photo
    You writeShy, with a sweet smile
  • Photo
    You writeCrying, hand over the mouth
  • Photo
    You writeA slow push-in and a swirl of space

One word is enough: "laughing" already gives a result. The network also understands details like "covering her mouth with her hand".

Which photos you can animate

Not just portraits. In the corner of every clip is the photo it was made from.

Photo

Character portrait

The hero's face comes alive: a gaze, a breath, a slight turn of the head.

Photo

Frame from a story

A scene illustration becomes a short living moment, together with the setting around the hero.

Photo

Anime frame or art

A drawn image starts moving; the linework and the style are preserved.

Photo

Story cover

A living cover instead of a static picture — the kind people notice in a feed.

Ready-made movement modes

Don't feel like wording it? Take a mode. It is a preset for rhythm and camera work — no description needed.

  • Photo

    Live photo

    Smooth animation: subtle expression and motion, no shot cuts.

  • Photo

    Four angles

    One moment from four angles: wide, close-up face, profile, low angle.

  • Photo

    Hard cuts

    Hard cuts on the motion between angles — the most dynamic rhythm.

  • Or simply in your own words

    A mode is a shortcut, not a frame. Describe the movement in a phrase and get what the list does not have.

What you get

Exactly what you get on the way out — no surprises, no fine print. Two seconds makes a living cover, a vertical story or a looping background; no service will build a full clip out of a single photo, and we do not pretend to. Within those limits, though, the quality of the generation is predictable: the same image with the same description gives a comparable result, not a lottery.

Duration
2 seconds
Precisely what a living photo and a looping cover need.
File format
mp4
Every browser, phone and social network plays it without conversion.
Frame shape
follows your photo
The proportions come from your image: an upright shot gives an upright clip, a square one stays square. Every example on this page was made the same way.

How much it costs

Animation without sound
from $0.17with the 449-limit pack at $24.99
Animation with sound
from $0.34with the 449-limit pack at $24.99
Generation time
a couple of minutes
You can close the tab: the finished video will be waiting in your account.
What goes in
JPG, PNG, WEBP
An ordinary image from your device, with no preparation needed.
Where it runs
in the browser
Computer, tablet, phone. No software to install and no graphics card needed: the computation happens on our servers.
The finished file
stays yours
Saves with one button and is kept in your account — you can come back for it later, not only right after generating.

How the photo animation neural network works

This is not an effect laid over a snapshot. The model predicts what the next frame would have been if the camera had never stopped.

Original photograph
Your shot
mp4 clip
  1. Reading the frameThe model locates the face, the figure, the boundaries of objects and the background, then works out the light source and the depth of the scene. From there on it is not handling a flat set of pixels but an understanding of what the photograph shows.
  2. Reading your descriptionA text wish («laughing», «the camera pushes in slowly») becomes a movement brief: which facial muscles work, where the gaze travels, how the camera behaves. With no description at all, generation follows a neutral cinematic motion.
  3. Predicting the movementA video model trained on an enormous body of real footage fills in the intermediate frames. It knows how fabric, hair, skin and light actually behave — which is why the motion looks filmed rather than drawn.
  4. Assembling the clipTwo seconds of mp4 in the proportions of the original

The sharper the source shot, the more natural the movement comes out.

Ready-made motion scenarios

The result depends on what you ask for. Here are ready-made descriptions of movement: expression, gaze, breath, wind in the hair, camera work. Take one word for word or rewrite it for your own frame.

  • PortraitA sweet smile
    The corners of the mouth rise slowly into a warm smile, and the eyes narrow with it. Breathing is even, the shoulders lift almost imperceptibly. The gaze stays in the lens to the end of the shot.
    • Kind
    • Caring
  • PortraitShy, with a sweet smile
    Lowers the eyes, colour rises in the cheeks, the lips twitch into a restrained smile. A moment later the gaze comes back up to the camera and immediately slides away again.
    • Shy
    • Kind
  • EmotionsLaughing
    The smile breaks into real laughter: the head tips back, the eyes screw shut, the shoulders shake. A second later the person recovers and wipes the corner of an eye.
    • Humorous
    • Energetic

Common questions about animating photos

Is it free?

Signing up is free, no card — it already puts limits on your balance, enough for your first clips.

Is my photo private?

The photo you upload and the video you get are visible only to you. We do not put them in the public feed and do not show them to other users without your decision.

Will any photo work?

A sharp frame where the face is clearly visible and unobstructed works best. The neural network will animate dark, blurry and heavily compressed shots too, but the quality of the source feeds straight into the result.

Can I animate an old or archival photograph?

Yes, there is no limit on the age of the shot: any image from your device goes in. The catalogue below has a separate category of gentle movements for exactly these frames — breath, a blink, a slight turn of the head, with no sharp expression and no cutting. Just note the general rule: the sharper the source, the more precise the result, and a badly damaged or blurred print gives the network less to work from. We do not promise to keep the face: the model may change the features, especially on real photographs, so do not expect an exact likeness to the original. The examples on this page were shot from drawn, AI-generated portraits; none of them is an archive frame.

Who owns the finished clip?

You do: post it on social media, put it on a cover, use it in your projects. The one condition is that you hold the rights to the source photograph.

Can the video have sound?

Yes — a version with sound is available for a higher cost in limits than a silent clip. Pick whichever fits where the video is going: a silent loop for a cover, sound for a clip meant to be watched with the volume on.

Let your hero breathe.

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