Animate a Photo

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name: 'animate-a-photo'
description: 'Bring a still image to life with natural motion: hair and fabric in the wind, a gentle camera move, blinking, water flowing.'
---

# Animate a Photo

Uses an attached image as the exact first frame and adds believable, subtle motion.

## Use it for

- Old family photos and portraits
- Product or landscape stills
- AI images created in Oraclip

## Inputs

- An attached image (required; or the last image generated in this chat)
- Optional: which motion the user wants

## Defaults

- Call `animate_image` with the image as the opening frame.
- Use the supported aspect ratio closest to the source (16:9, 9:16 or 1:1).
- Default motion: subtle environmental motion plus a slow push-in.

## Prompt recipe

Describe only what moves: `[subject] [small natural action: blinks and smiles softly / turns head slightly], [environment motion: leaves sway, clouds drift, water ripples], camera [slow push-in / gentle parallax drift], keep the original look, lighting and identity unchanged`

## Example prompt

```text
The woman blinks and smiles softly while a light breeze moves loose strands of her hair, the curtains behind her sway gently, warm sunlight flickers slightly, camera does a slow push-in, keep the original look, lighting and identity unchanged
```

## Variations to offer

- A stronger, more dramatic camera move
- A seamless loop for a wallpaper
- An ending frame to transition into (two images)

## Avoid

- Big actions that distort faces or hands
- Animating photos of people who did not agree
- Changing the art style of the image

## Working rules

- Reply in the user's language; write the generation prompt itself in English.
- Ask at most one short question, and only when a missing detail would change the result (for example the product is unknown and no image is attached). Otherwise use the defaults in this skill and go.
- Keep one generation call per requested output. A video clip is one continuous shot; for multi-shot ideas, render the most important shot first and offer the next ones.
- Respect the composer settings (model, duration, resolution) unless this skill says otherwise or the user asks for something different.
- Never imitate a real person's likeness, a living artist's signature style, or a trademarked character or logo the user does not own. Swap them for an original description.
- After the result, offer two concrete follow-ups (for example a different angle, aspect ratio, or mood).