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Anime Gasp

The wide-eyed dramatic gasp everyone is doing right now

Motion action · 5 second clip · iPhone and iPad

Anime Gasp: the preview still the AI Video app shows for this action
The card image AI Video shows for this action. Some of these illustrate the result and some show the kind of photograph you would start from. Either way it ships inside the app, rather than being a render made for a website.

In the catalogue

Action
Anime Gasp
Category
Expressions
Returns
A clip of about 5 seconds
Subscription
Not required

What this action does

The wide-eyed dramatic gasp everyone is doing right now. You give the app a single photograph and it generates a short clip of that movement, roughly 5 seconds long. Nothing is filmed and nothing is recovered: the motion is produced from the one frame you supply.

What photo works best

The clip opens on your face and immediately asks for both hands beside the cheeks, so a portrait where the hands are already somewhere in frame beats one cropped at the neck. Shoot head and shoulders, front on, bright and even, with the mouth relaxed and closed so the gasp has somewhere to travel from. Hair pulled back off the cheeks helps, because the hands land exactly there. The source to skip is a photograph where you are already laughing hard, since the punchline then has nowhere left to go.

What to expect

One photograph goes in and a short clip comes out. It is generated rather than filmed, so run it twice if the first attempt puts a hand somewhere strange; the second version will not be identical.

If the result is not convincing, the fix is almost always the photograph rather than the settings. Reshoot it wider, get more light on the face, and move the arms clear of the body. The rest of what decides the result applies to every action here, and the limits apply to this one too.

Common questions

What kind of photo works best for Anime Gasp?
Anime Gasp builds about 5 seconds of movement out of your photograph, and the one frame you choose is the entire input. Whatever has to appear in the result has to be in the shot, so frame wide enough to take in everything the movement touches, keep the subject sharp and clearly separated from what is behind them, and get even light onto the face and the hands.
How long is the video?
About 5 seconds. That is what the default video model in the app's catalogue is configured to produce, and it is the same for every motion action in the library.
Do I need a subscription to use Anime Gasp?
No. Anime Gasp is not marked as a subscription only action in the app's catalogue. AI Video is free to download, and generating a result uses credits, which are bought as a pack or come with a subscription.

The right action for the photo beats the popular one

Every movement and every style in the library is written up the same way, so you can check whether the picture in your camera roll actually suits it before you spend a credit.

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A woman in a patterned dress at an outdoor party, one of the preview stills the app ships