Animated Short Effect Video Generator
Casts the person in one portrait photo as the lead of a family-film style comedy, often beside an animated co-star like a pigeon or a cat. 17 storylines, up to 15 seconds with sound, at 720p or 1080p.
Overview
Animated Short Effect puts the person from your photo into a short in the style of a computer-animated family film. Most of the 17 scenarios are small comedies with an animated co-star. A pigeon in a beret steals a donut from a museum while your subject plays the dozing night guard. A cat and a mouse chase each other across piano keys in a moonlit music room, and a laid-back avocado argues with a nervous slice of toast at the breakfast counter. How far the person is stylised depends on the scenario. In the pigeon heist and the kung fu cat montage they come out as a 3D cartoon character, while in Chameleon Butterfly Panic Sneeze or Goat-Man Victorian Greenhouse Tea Ceremony they stay close to photoreal beside the animated co-star.
A few presets change the look. Matchbox Loves Candle Clay Tragedy turns everyone into handmade clay figures, Colored Pencil Flower Field Timelapse shows the person drawing a field of flowers in colored pencil, and Forest Rabbits Found Footage plays like a handheld nature vlog in which rabbits pile onto the subject.
What you can build
- A "star in your own cartoon" feature for a photo or family app
- Personalised birthday and greeting videos
- Vertical shorts for Reels, TikTok or YouTube Shorts in the default 9:16 frame
Inputs
Every scenario takes one portrait photo, and a clear, front-facing face works best. Then set:
- the scenario (Pigeon Museum Heist Donut Caper is the default)
- Video Mode: Standard renders at 720p, Pro at 1080p
- aspect ratio: 9:16, 16:9 or 1:1
- duration: 5, 10 or 15 seconds
Outputs
You get an MP4 at the ratio and length you set, with sound generated for the scene. Every sample on this page was made in Pro mode and measures 1080 by 1920 at 24 frames per second.
Limitations
Storylines are fixed, so there is no way to write your own plot or rename the characters. In the clay and full-cartoon scenarios the face is redrawn in that style, and the result reads as a cartoon version of the person.
Safety & compliance
Ask the person in the portrait for permission before turning them into an animated character.
API quick start
Run Animated Short Effect with a single API call.
{
"inputImage": "https://your-cdn.com/input.png",
"effectType": "cg+short-pigeon+museum+heist+donut",
"videoMode": "std",
"duration": 5
}curl -X POST "https://api.wiro.ai/v1/Run/wiro/animated-short-effect" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "x-api-key: YOUR_WIRO_API_KEY" \
--data-binary @- <<'JSON'
{
"inputImage": "https://your-cdn.com/input.png",
"effectType": "cg+short-pigeon+museum+heist+donut",
"videoMode": "std",
"duration": 5
}
JSON