Tool
Character Studio: bring it to lifeAI character animation
Give your character a walk, a dance, a line or a full meltdown.
from $0.25 a secondOne photo in, no prompt to write. Pay per result, no subscription.
- Same character, a laundromat at night
- Same character, a dance on the subway platform
- Same character, a rooftop court at dusk
- Turn and pose on the red carpet
- Flash shoot on orange
You bring
- Your characterA character from Character Studio, or any full-body image of one person.
- 01Drop in a character from Character Studio, or any full-body image.
- 02Pick a move from the motion library, a scene and a camera move. Add a line if they should talk.
- 03Get a ready-to-post clip with sound, and the still it started from.
Build yours
Every choice, a picture
Pick what matters to you and leave the rest to Surprise me. It fills every picker you left alone, and you can roll again.
Real runs
Made with Character Studio: bring it to life
Runway strut
Deadpan dance
Rodeo in aisle five
Camel coat, turning on the white set
Camel coat, walking in past the cabs
Camel coat down the runway
Camel coat in the flashbulbs
Seventies walk-in on a city street
Seventies side-eye on the subway
The meeting that could have been an email
Suit on the red carpet
Seventies walk-in on the runway
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Questions
Character Studio: bring it to life, answered
- What does Character Studio: bring it to life make?
- Your character walks in, poses, dances, talks or reacts, on the white set or out in the world, with sound.
- What do I need to bring?
- A character from Character Studio, or any full-body image of one person.
- How does it work?
- Drop in a character from Character Studio, or any full-body image. Pick a move from the motion library, a scene and a camera move. Add a line if they should talk. Get a ready-to-post clip with sound, and the still it started from.
- What can I choose?
- Motion: Walk-in, Turn and pose, Twirl, Runway strut, Deadpan dance, Full groove, The robot or Talk to camera, and 6 more. Scene: White studio, City street, Tokyo night, Red carpet, Subway, Runway show, Office or Supermarket. Camera move: Auto, Locked off, Slow push-in, Pull out, Pan, Crash zoom, Dolly zoom or Orbit, and 11 more. Lighting: Auto, Golden hour, Blue hour, Hard flash, Neon night, Studio soft, Rim light or Candlelight, and 3 more.
- How much does it cost?
- From $0.25 a second, and you see the exact price before you press go. A run that fails costs nothing, there is no subscription, and you can start free without a card.
- Can I use the result commercially?
- Yes. You own what you make on Leap, so you can use it commercially, and we never train AI on it. The people and brands shown in a result can still have rights in it; the Terms say more.
- Can I run it from code?
- Yes. Developers run it as leap/character-video through the Leap API, at the same price, with the same choices.
Rather write the prompt yourself? Try Gemini Omni Flash 1.1, Wan 2.6 or Grok Imagine Video.
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