Upload a still, say how it should move, and Hailuo animates it: faces that act, objects with weight, artwork that still looks painted.
Hailuo 2.3 Fast starts from your image: a product photo, a portrait, a drawing. What you uploaded is the first frame of the clip.
Eyes move, a brow tightens, a jaw sets. Hailuo is good at small expressions, which is what makes a portrait feel alive.
Anime, illustration and game art move without being pulled toward a photo look. 60 credits for a 6-second clip.
ImageOne watch photo becomes a turn on the plinth, with the light travelling across the glass. The photo you already have becomes a second asset.
ImageThe wind catches her hair, petals stream past, she turns and smiles, and it still looks hand-painted.
ImageA man reads something on his phone: his eyes move, his brow tightens, he looks away. Nothing else moves, which is what makes it read as acting.
ImageA marble rolls across the table, slows, and stops against the book. Weight and momentum are either right or obviously wrong, and here they are right.
A photo, a render, a drawing or an AI image. It becomes the first frame of the clip.
Describe the motion in a sentence: "the watch turns slowly, the light moves across the glass". Saying what should stay still helps too.
6 seconds is 60 credits and 10 seconds is 100. The button shows the price before you click.
The clip opens in Create when it is ready and downloads as an MP4.
Why Hailuo starts from an image here, and what MiniMax says the 2.3 line is good at.
On this page Hailuo always starts from a picture you upload, and that picture becomes the first frame of the video. That is how MiniMax's own API defines the image this model takes.
“Specify an image as the starting frame of the video.”Hailuo can animate anime, illustration, ink painting and game art without turning them photographic. MiniMax lists these styles among the improvements in the Hailuo 2.3 line, which this page runs in its Fast version.
“In terms of stylization, Hailuo 2.3 offers better support for anime, illustration, as well as special art styles like ink wash painting and game CG.”Small facial movements, a glance or a tightening brow, are what make a portrait look alive. MiniMax gives more natural micro-expressions as one of the main gains in Hailuo 2.3.
“In Hailuo 2.3, live-action facial performances and micro-expression changes are also more natural.”Hailuo is the video model from MiniMax. Hailuo 2.3 Fast, the version on this page, animates a still image into a short clip, and is known for natural faces and believable motion.
You can try it free. Start a 3-day free trial and you get 200 credits, enough for three 6-second Hailuo clips (60 credits each). Starting the trial takes a card but costs nothing today; we email you before it ends, and if you do not cancel, the plan you picked renews at its normal price. The one video model a free account can use at no cost is Grok Video.
60 credits for a 6-second clip and 100 for 10 seconds. The Generate button shows the cost before you click.
Not on this page: Hailuo 2.3 Fast needs an image to start from. To make a video from words alone, use Text to Video, or make the first frame with an image model and bring it back here.
Yes. Hailuo can make the sound with the moving picture. Describe the sounds you want in your motion prompt, such as wind, footsteps or a ticking watch.
6 or 10 seconds per clip. For a longer video, make several clips and join them in a video editor.
Yes. Anime, illustration, ink painting and game art keep their look while they move, rather than turning photographic.
Hailuo is cheaper, at 60 credits for 6 seconds, and strong on faces and physics. Kling v3 is 135 for 5 seconds, holds text in the frame better and can end on a last frame you choose. Image to Video lets you run the same picture on both.
Describe only the motion, not the picture: the image already shows what is there. Name what moves and how ("his eyes move across the text, then he looks away") and what stays still ("nothing else moves").
Downloads during the free trial and on paid plans are clean MP4s with no watermark. Downloads on a free account carry a small Vormly watermark.
Yes. Clips you make with Hailuo here are yours to use in ads, client work, YouTube videos and social posts, with no credit to Vormly needed. New clips are public by default and can appear in Explore with their prompt; on a paid plan you can make them private. A real brand or a famous person's likeness in your prompt is not cleared just because a model made the clip. Upload only images you have the right to use.