First shot in about two minutes.

Quick start

Five moves, one press each.

1. 01

   Open the studio

   Go to /create. A new device starts with 100 free credits — about 16 frames, no card. Nothing is charged without your press.

2. 02

   Start from a recipe — or one clear line

   Tap one of the three image recipes to fill the prompt with a tested template, then edit the words. Blank page? “Draft a first prompt with the agent” writes one first line for 1 credit.

3. 03

   Shape the frame and generate

   Pick vertical, landscape or square, add a reference image if you have one, then press “Generate image”: 6 credits, usually 15–35 seconds. One press, one image — nothing chains.

4. 04

   Give it motion

   Open /create/video, pick a frame you made here or upload your own photo, tap a motion recipe, and choose the duration. A 5s shot costs 45 credits; a 10s shot costs 90.

5. 05

   Pick a take — then generate again

   When the clip lands, use “Generate again” on /create/video to reuse the same references and prompt. Every press is a new charge, so start with a clear idea and a small motion.

Reference image

A good reference decides the face.

The reference image, not the prompt, is what keeps a character consistent. The rules are short:

• Face clear and lit — front-facing, eyes visible, no heavy shadow. The reference carries the face; when it is dark or turned, the model invents.
• Half-body or closer — in a wide full-body shot the face is only a few pixels. Crop to the head and shoulders if the face is what matters.
• Clean background — one subject on a plain or softly blurred background. Busy patterns and on-image text get copied as artifacts.
• One subject only — no collages, no group photos, no screenshots with UI. Crop to the person you want.
• Match the output aspect — a vertical reference for a vertical frame. A 16:9 reference fed into a 9:16 shot gets cropped.
• Uploads are per shot — your own upload is used for that shot only. Generated frames and finished clips stay in Assets.

Image prompt · six parts

Write a frame in six parts.

You do not need all six every time, but the order works. The /create page has three recipes that already follow this structure — tap one, then edit the words.

1. 01

   Subject

   Who or what fills the frame: age, hair, outfit, expression. One subject is much easier to keep consistent than three.

2. 02

   Action / pose

   The frozen moment: standing, turning, reaching, looking off-frame. A still image needs one moment, not a whole story.

3. 03

   Camera & framing

   Shot size and angle: close-up, medium, full body; eye level, low angle, overhead. Add “35mm” or “85mm” if you want a photographic look.

4. 04

   Light

   Where the light comes from and how hard it is: soft window light, hard noon sun, one lamp at night. Light sets the mood more than adjectives do.

5. 05

   Atmosphere & palette

   Era, weather, grain, color grade: “1990s cel animation”, “warm haze”, “muted teal”. Two or three anchors are plenty — more becomes noise.

6. 06

   Avoid

   What must not appear: text, watermark, logos, extra limbs, blurry hands. This is the cheapest fix for the most common failures.

One prompt built this way

A 1990s cel-animation close-up of one character with dark hair and a calm expression. Soft window light from the left, clean background slightly out of focus. Warm paint texture and gentle film grain; no text, no watermark.

Motion prompt · five parts

Describe the movement, not the image.

By the time you reach /create/video the picture already exists. The prompt now only says how it moves — keep the frame as it is and change the motion in it.

1. 01

   Camera move

   Push in, pull back, orbit, pan, handheld, or hold. One move per shot — two moves in five seconds reads as a glitch.

2. 02

   Subject motion

   What the subject does: breathes, turns the head, hair lifts, coat moves. Keep it small; the reference is the anchor.

3. 03

   Pacing

   Slow, steady, constant. Say “no cuts”. A shot is one continuous take, not an edit.

4. 04

   Ambience

   What moves besides the subject: dust, steam, rain, flickering light, drifting fabric. This is what makes a still feel alive.

5. 05

   Avoid

   No morphing, no new characters, no text appearing, no camera shake. Naming the failure helps the model skip it.

One motion prompt built this way

The camera pushes in slowly and steadily. Her hair lifts in the wind while the background stays still. Drifting dust in the light; no cuts, no morphing, no text.

Two shortcuts if writing is the hard part: tap one of the three motion recipes (steady push-in, gentle orbit, atmospheric hold), or type one plain line in any language into the agent box and press Write it for me (1 credit) — the agent drafts the English motion prompt, you edit it. The agent only writes text; it never starts a generation.

5s VS 10s

Pick the length before you press.

Both lengths are one continuous generation. The longer one is not two shorter clips joined — it is a different, slower take, and it may look slightly different.

Rule of thumb: start with the shorter one. Move to the longer one when the beat itself needs time — an entrance, a slow turn, a held atmosphere. With 100 trial credits, 2 five-second shots from your own reference are covered — or one 10s shot plus a generated frame (90 + 6 credits).

When it looks wrong

Common failures, and what to change.

If a guess is wrong, change one thing at a time. Two edits at once and you cannot tell which one worked.