Animate an image

What it asks you for

Imagerequired

The still to animate.

Motion

What should move, and how.

Camera

Camera movement.

What it tells the AI to do

The full instructions, exactly as they run.

Animate {{ image }}.

- Motion: {{ motion }}
- Camera: {{ camera | default("push") }}

Two routes, and the cheap one is usually right:

1. **Ken Burns on a computer** — for a pure camera move (push/pull/pan) over a
   still, ffmpeg `zoompan` gives a clean, deterministic result in seconds for
   effectively nothing. Use it whenever the request is only camera movement.
2. **Image-to-video model** — when things in the frame must actually move
   (steam, hair, water). Async, costs real money, and can alter the subject.

Pick one deliberately and say which and why.
## Delivery

Write the finished artifact into Drive. Never upload a user's content to a
third-party file host (`0x0.st`, `catbox.moe`, `transfer.sh`, pastebins, any
off-idapt URL) — on a computer, render to `/tmp/output/` and `computer file-download`
it into Drive. If you catch yourself reaching for `curl -F`, stop: you already
hold the artifact.

• video
• image-to-video
• animate

More video skills

• Create a videoGenerate a video clip from a text prompt.
• Edit a videoTrim, join, speed, crop, or watermark a video with ffmpeg.
• Add captionsTranscribe a video and add captions, burned in or as a subtitle file.