Motion study
“Clip: a red fox trots through birch snow, pauses, ears rotating, breath fogging in the cold air”
Grok Imagine Video prompts that actually ran
Every prompt below was generated with Grok Imagine Video in Made, and the output next to it is what came back — not a curated stock image. Copy a prompt as a starting point, then use the guide underneath to adapt it.
Original results
Grok Imagine Video prompts and their outputs
These examples use media produced for Made. Prompts are included when the production record allows them.
Image-to-video
“Rain streaks the neon as steam billows, the vendor tosses noodles in a flaming wok, camera dollying in”
Creative scene
“Clip: lasers sweep a festival crowd as the DJ drops the beat, confetti bursting in slow motion”
Start-frame control
“Use this image as the opening composition.”
Scene brief
“Set the scene as a still before describing its motion.”
Composition brief
“Plan the shot as a still, then hand the motion to the model.”
How to write a Grok Imagine Video prompt
- 1
Write the shot
Describe the subject, motion, and camera path in one or two concrete sentences.
- 2
Add a start image if needed
Upload a still to animate; Made routes the request to the image-to-video endpoint.
- 3
Choose format and length
Pick one of seven aspect ratios and any duration from 1 to 15 seconds.
- 4
Generate and review
Check motion and continuity, then refine one instruction at a time — short cheap takes make iteration fast.
What Grok Imagine Video responds well to
Prompt for these jobs
- Low-cost clips at 8 credits a second
- Flexible durations from 1 to 15 seconds
- Seven aspect ratios including 3:2 and 2:3
- Animating stills with believable motion
Check the output for
- Made pins output to 720p; the provider’s 480p tier is not exposed, and 1080p needs another model or an upscale pass.
- It is the first-generation Grok video model; Grok Imagine Video 1.5 delivers stronger motion and generated audio at a higher rate.
Iteration is cheap here: Grok Imagine Video costs 8 credits / second, so rewriting a prompt and rerunning it is a normal part of the workflow, not a budget decision. See the full Grok Imagine Video pricing breakdown.
It is xAI’s first-generation Grok Imagine video model, generating low-cost short clips from a text prompt or a start image.
More tested prompts across all models live in the prompt library, and the full Grok Imagine Video capability rundown is on the model page.