Upload a painting, illustration, or concept sketch. Get back cinematic AI video that preserves your style. Powered by Seedance 2.0 — realistic physics, fluid motion, your artistic vision.
# Animate your artwork via the API import requests with open("my_painting.png", "rb") as f: response = requests.post( "https://usvideoapi.com/v1/videos", headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {API_KEY}"}, files={"image": f}, data={ "prompt": "Gentle wind moves through the painted trees, leaves drift softly, camera slowly pushes in", "resolution": "1080p", "duration": 5, } ) video = response.json() # {"id": "job_a7c2...", "status": "pending", "price": "$2.50"}
Whether you paint in oils or pixels, AI video adds a new dimension to your creative output.
Upload a painting, digital illustration, or photograph. The API generates natural motion — clouds drifting, water flowing, figures turning — while preserving every brushstroke and color choice you made. Your art stays yours. It just breathes now.
From $1.25 / clipCreate living, evolving visual compositions from text descriptions. Abstract flows, organic patterns, surreal landscapes — generate pieces that exist in motion, not just as stills. Perfect for digital art collections, installations, and experimental work.
Text-to-video from $0.50Test motion concepts before committing to full production. Upload your storyboard frame, describe the camera move and character action, and get a preview in 90 seconds. Iterate on timing, composition, and pacing at a fraction of the cost of traditional keyframing.
10 variations for $12.50Same scene, ten different visual treatments. Moody noir. Warm watercolor. Hyper-real CG. Vintage film grain. At $1.25 per 720p clip, you can explore wildly different artistic directions in minutes instead of days. Find your look before investing in full renders.
$1.25 per variationGenerate dreamlike, surreal, or hyperkinetic footage that matches the mood of a track. Feed the API an album cover or mood-board image with a motion prompt and receive visuals that feel intentional and expressive — not generic stock footage.
Full MV visuals from $25Loop-ready AI video art for exhibitions, projection mapping, and digital signage. Generate seamless clips at up to 1080p that hold up on large displays. Many artists commission a single hero piece and generate dozens of ambient variations for immersive environments.
1080p exhibition-gradeTurn static concept art into animated pitches for games and films. Upload an environment painting, describe the camera sweep and atmospheric effects, and deliver a cinematic preview that sells the vision better than any slide deck.
Pitch-ready in minutesTransform static art into animated collectibles. AI-generated motion adds perceived value and visual distinction to digital art pieces. Mint editions with unique motion variations — same base artwork, different animations — all generated programmatically via the API.
Batch via API
The model behind the API. Cinematic quality that respects your creative intent.
Seedance 2.0 maintains your original art style — brushwork, palette, texture, lighting — when animating from an input image. Your art moves without losing its identity.
Fluid dynamics, cloth simulation, particle effects, and natural gravity. Motion looks physically plausible, not glitchy or uncanny. Water ripples, fabric drapes, smoke dissipates.
Dynamic light and shadow that respond to scene motion. Volumetric rays, caustics, reflections — the kind of lighting detail that separates amateur from cinematic output.
Upload up to 12 reference images to control style, composition, and mood. Combine a color palette swatch, a composition reference, and a texture sample in a single generation.
1080p clips in under 90 seconds. 720p in under 30. Fast enough for real-time creative iteration — try an idea, review, adjust, regenerate.
You own everything you generate. Your art, prompts, and outputs are never used for model training. Sell prints, mint NFTs, license to clients — no restrictions.
The API handles the heavy lifting. You stay in the creative driver's seat.
Send any still image — painting, sketch, render, photograph. JPEG or PNG, any aspect ratio. The model analyzes style, composition, and subject matter automatically.
Write a natural-language prompt: camera movement, atmospheric effects, character action, mood. Be as specific or loose as you want — the model interprets both literal and abstract direction.
Get your video in 30–90 seconds. Adjust the prompt, try different durations, explore variations. At $1.25 per 720p clip, rapid iteration is part of the workflow, not a luxury.
No subscriptions. No seat licenses. Pay per second of generated video. Add funds and create.
Yes. The image-to-video endpoint accepts any still image — oil paintings, digital illustrations, watercolors, concept art, pixel art — and generates cinematic motion while preserving your original style, brushwork, and color palette. Upload a JPEG or PNG and receive an animated MP4 in under 90 seconds.
A 5-second 720p animation costs $1.25. A 10-second clip at 1080p costs $5.00. There are no subscriptions or minimums — you pay only for what you generate. Most artists start with 720p clips at $1.25 each to explore variations before going to higher resolutions.
Seedance 2.0 is designed to preserve the visual identity of your input image. It maintains brushstrokes, color palettes, lighting, and compositional elements. You control how much motion is added through your prompt — from subtle atmospheric movement to full scene animation.
Generative video art uses AI to create living, evolving visual compositions. The API supports both text-to-video (describe an abstract concept and get original footage) and image-to-video (animate a seed image). Artists use it for gallery installations, digital collectibles, music video visuals, and experimental art projects.
Absolutely. Animators and VFX artists use the API to test motion concepts, camera angles, and scene timing at $1.25 per clip instead of spending hours on manual keyframing. It is ideal for storyboard-to-motion previews, pitch animatics, and rapid iteration on visual direction.
Yes. Output is delivered as standard MP4 at up to 1080p with smooth looping capability. Many artists use generated clips for gallery installations, projection mapping, digital signage, and immersive exhibitions. The cinematic quality — realistic physics, fluid motion, natural lighting — holds up on large displays.
Yes. Send the same prompt with different style modifiers or different reference images and receive unique variations. At $1.25 per 720p clip, you can explore 10 distinct visual directions for under $13. This makes style exploration dramatically faster and cheaper than traditional methods.
Yes. You retain full commercial rights to all video generated through the API. Your prompts, input images, and output videos are never used for model training. You can use generated content for commercial projects, exhibitions, NFTs, or any other purpose.
The relationship between artists and technology has always been one of tension and transformation. Photography didn't replace painting — it freed painters from the obligation of realism and made Impressionism possible. Digital tools didn't replace analog craft — they expanded what a single artist could produce. AI video generation is the next chapter in that story.
For digital artists, animators, concept artists, and art directors, the ability to transform a still image into cinematic video opens creative possibilities that simply didn't exist two years ago. A watercolor landscape can now have clouds that drift and water that ripples. A concept painting for a game pitch can become a 10-second cinematic flythrough. An album cover can become a music video backdrop. And each of these experiments costs less than a latte.
The core workflow is simple: upload your artwork as a JPEG or PNG, write a natural-language prompt describing the motion you want, and receive a generated MP4. Seedance 2.0 — the model powering the US Video API — analyzes the visual content of your input image and generates motion that is contextually appropriate. It understands what water looks like and how it should move. It knows how fabric drapes, how smoke rises, how light shifts.
Critically, it preserves your art style. Brushstrokes remain visible. Color palettes stay intact. The composition you designed holds. The AI is adding motion to your vision, not replacing it with its own aesthetic. This is what makes it a creative tool rather than a creative replacement — you set the direction, the AI handles the physics.
The most successful artists using AI video treat it as one tool in a larger toolkit. They sketch concepts by hand, refine compositions in Photoshop or Procreate, and then feed finished stills into the API to explore motion. The AI output becomes a starting point for further editing — compositing in After Effects, color grading in DaVinci, sound design in Logic.
This is not about replacing the animator's craft or the VFX artist's expertise. It is about compressing the ideation phase. Instead of spending three days building a rough animatic to test whether a camera move works, you generate five variations in ten minutes for $6.25 total. The creative decision — which direction to pursue, what feels right — remains entirely human.
For animation prototyping specifically, the cost savings are dramatic. A traditional storyboard-to-animatic pipeline might take a week of work. With AI video, you can test twenty different approaches to a scene in an afternoon, each at $1.25. The ones that work become reference material for the production team. The ones that don't cost you almost nothing.
AI-generated video art is already appearing in gallery settings. Looping video pieces displayed on screens or via projection mapping create immersive environments that static art cannot. The key advantage of API-based generation is consistency and variation — you can produce dozens of thematically related pieces from a single artistic concept, each with unique motion characteristics.
For NFT and digital collectible creators, the API enables a new class of assets: animated editions where each token in a collection features the same base artwork with algorithmically distinct motion. Edition 1 might have gentle wind. Edition 47 might have dramatic storm lighting. Each is generated programmatically, each is unique, and each costs under $2 to produce.
Output is standard MP4 (H.264) at up to 1080p resolution. Clips can be 5 or 10 seconds in duration. The API supports aspect ratios from vertical 9:16 to cinematic 16:9 and everything in between — match whatever canvas ratio your artwork uses. Turnaround time is under 90 seconds for 1080p and under 30 seconds for 720p.
You can upload up to 12 reference images per generation to control style consistency across a series of clips. This is particularly useful for gallery installations or music video projects where visual coherence across multiple scenes matters. The API uses standard REST conventions with webhook callbacks for async workflows — meaning it integrates cleanly into automated pipelines for batch generation.
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