How to animate a photo with video motion transfer

The workflow

1. 1

   Use a photo that shows the whole person

   Pick a clear photo of one person with the face visible and, ideally, the full body. The preview copies the face, hair, body shape, and outfit from this photo. If the outfit is cut off, the model continues it in the same style, so a full-length photo gives you more control. Use photos of yourself or of people who agreed to it.

2. 2

   Choose the move

   Pick a move from the library, such as a dance, a runway walk, or an action combo, or add your own performance. Your clip must be 3–30 seconds, an MP4 or MOV under 64 MB, and between 340 and 3850 pixels on each side. A single performer who stays in frame, with hands and feet visible, is the easiest first test.

3. 3

   Check the preview before animating

   The tool quotes and makes a still that puts your person in the move’s first frame: the same pose, camera angle, framing, place, and light as the move. Check the face, outfit, hands, and pose here. If something is wrong, make a new preview; it costs far less than redoing the video.

4. 4

   Animate, then watch the whole clip

   Quote the video stage and generate. With your own clip you can keep its original sound. Review the start, the fastest moment, every turn, and the end. Faces, hands, and loose clothing can drift during spins and fast steps even when the first frame looks right.

Recorded Made demonstration

One hallway photo, a posed preview, and the finished dance

This Made-generated person and the rooftop dance from the move library are a recorded September 26, 2026 demonstration. GPT Image 2.5 Flare first made the posed still from the hallway photo; Kling 3 Motion Control Pro then animated it with the dance. Inspect all four files. It is one example, not a measure of how often a result succeeds.

Kling 3 Motion Control Pro · Generated 2026-09-26 · View the example record and price basis (JSON)

Prompts you can inspect and adapt

Made Motion: still.
Image 1 is the first frame of a video. Image 2 is a photo of a person.
Recreate image 1 with the person from image 2 in place of the person in image 1: the same face and identity, hair, skin tone, body shape and age, wearing the outfit from image 2.
They take the exact place and pose of the person in image 1: head, arms, hands, legs and feet, standing or sitting the same way, holding anything the person in image 1 holds. Keep the camera angle, framing, crop, location and lighting of image 1.
If image 2 does not show the whole outfit, continue it naturally in the same style.
Photorealistic, natural skin texture, one person, no text, no borders, no watermark.

Made Motion: video.
Animate the person in the reference image with the performance in the reference video. Follow every movement, gesture, step and expression with the same timing and pace.
Keep their face, hair, outfit and proportions, and the place and light of the reference image, consistent throughout. Natural motion, coherent hands and face.

How a preview and its motion are priced

Each new preview or video is priced again. The studio shows the quote for your photo and move before each stage runs.

What to review before you use the result

Work with Claude and Made

In Claude, connect Made and ask it to inspect the motion and image-editing catalog before quoting anything. The browser studio runs the preview-then-motion pipeline for you; through the connector, ask the assistant to show you the prepared start frame before it animates.

Use Made to put the person in my attached photo into the dance in my attached video. First make a still that places them in the video’s opening frame and show it to me with its credit quote. After I approve it, inspect the current catalog for Kling 3 Motion Control Pro, quote a video that follows the move’s timing, and generate one result.

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