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Butterflies AI Video Effect

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Dozens of bright butterflies pour into the frame and circle your subject until one lands on a raised fingertip.

MiniMax H3

Model
MiniMax H3
Length
5 s
Resolution
768p
Per run
$0.185
Type
Atmosphere
Also runs on
Seedance 2.0 Fast, Kling 3.0, Seedance 2.0, Wan 3.0, Vidu Q3 Turbo, MiniMax H3 Max, Kling 2.5 Turbo, Wan 2.6 Flash, Seedance 2.0 Mini

What this effect sends

This is the full prompt, word for word. Copy it, or open it in the generator and change anything you like.

Within the first second a swarm of dozens of bright butterflies pours into the frame, electric blue, orange and yellow wings flashing in the light. They spiral around the person in a tight whirling ring, brushing past the face and the lens. The person raises one hand, and by the fourth second a large electric-blue butterfly lands on their fingertip; they look from it to the lens with a delighted smile as the swarm keeps circling. The person stays exactly as they appear in the photo.
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Pictures that work best

  • Pick a photo with some empty space around the person. The swarm needs room to circle.
  • A visible hand makes the fingertip landing easy to read.
  • Plain or muted backgrounds make the bright wings stand out.
  • Smiling or relaxed faces fit the delighted look at the end.

Models this effect runs on

The same prompt on different models. Pick by look and by price.

How it works

  1. 01

    Add one photo

    Choose the photo to match the example: include both people for a shared gesture, and keep the face and any hands involved clearly visible. Upload your own photo or start with a Butterflies sample.

  2. 02

    Check the price

    Butterflies defaults to a 5-second clip for $0.185. Swap the model or change the length and resolution before you run — the price on the button updates to match, and that's the whole cost of the clip.

  3. 03

    Generate

    Your Butterflies clip renders in the background, lands in History and is never published.

Do the move yourself

Butterflies keeps one version of this shot. To give Butterflies your own motion or ending, write it yourself in Image to Video, starting from the prompt above.

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What it does to your photo

Within the first second a swarm of dozens of bright butterflies pours into the frame, electric blue, orange and yellow wings flashing in the light. They spiral around the person in a tight whirling ring, brushing past the face and the lens. The person raises one hand, and by the fourth second a large electric-blue butterfly lands on their fingertip; they look from it to the lens with a delighted smile as the swarm keeps circling. The person stays exactly as they appear in your photo throughout.

In our test runs on MiniMax H3, a silver-haired older woman with a braided crown and red lipstick in a yellow linen dress in a walled lavender garden was engulfed within the first second by a swirling swarm of electric-blue and orange butterflies, and by second four a large blue butterfly settled on her raised fingertip as she smiled from it to the lens. In a second run, a young woman with long wavy brown hair in a pink knit dress under blossoming cherry trees was swept within the first second by a whirling swarm of electric-blue and orange butterflies, and by second three a large blue butterfly landed on her raised fingertip as she beamed at the lens.

Waist-up portraits with a hand in view and a bright, simple background work best, so the butterflies stand out. Garden, forest and soft indoor scenes feel natural. Photos with both hands hidden make the fingertip landing harder. Busy patterns can hide the wings. The effect leaves the person exactly as they are in your photo and only adds the motion, light and atmosphere.

It runs on MiniMax H3 for five seconds by default, and H3 itself goes up to 15 seconds and 2K if you want more. Studio also lets you move the same prompt to another model before you generate, such as Seedance 2.0 or Wan 3.0, and the price on the Generate button updates with every change. Our samples were all made on MiniMax H3, so other models will read the prompt in their own way.

Good for whimsical portraits, spring and nature posts, and storybook-style clips.

Open the prompt in the generator and change "electric blue, orange and yellow" to "white and pale gold" for a softer palette, or "dozens of bright butterflies" to "a handful of butterflies" for a sparser swarm.

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