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Drone RiseThis effect writes the prompt for you. Add one image.
We never filter your prompt.
A beam of cold silver moonlight slants through a window, laying pane shadows across the face as your subject turns into it.
- Model
- MiniMax H3
- Length
- 5 s
- Resolution
- 768p
- Per run
- $0.185
- Type
- After Dark
- Also runs on
- Seedance 2.0 Fast, Seedance 2.0, Wan 3.0, Vidu Q3 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 beam of cold silver moonlight slants in through a window just out of frame and lands across the person, throwing the sharp cross-shaped shadow of the window panes over their face and onto the background behind them. A night breeze sends the shadows of sheer curtains rippling through the beam. By the third second the face is fully lit in silver-blue with the window shadow lying across it, and they turn into the light and hold a quiet look into the lens. The person stays exactly as they appear in the photo.Pictures that work best
- Start from a dim photo. The contrast between the dark room and the silver beam is the main effect.
- Leave a wall or background visible behind the person. The window-pane shadow also falls there.
- Light, plain tones pick up the silver tint more clearly than dark ones.
- Keep the face turned a little toward the camera so the final look into the lens reads.
Models this effect runs on
The same prompt on different models. Pick by look and by price.
- MiniMax H3$0.185 per run
5 s · 768p
- Seedance 2.0 Fast$0.484 per run
5 s · 720p
- Seedance 2.0$0.76 per run
5 s · 720p
- Wan 3.0$0.45 per run
5 s · 720p
- Vidu Q3 Turbo$0.33 per run
5 s · 720p
- Wan 2.6 Flash$0.113 per run
5 s · 720p
- Seedance 2.0 Mini$0.265 per run
5 s · 720p
How it works
- 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 Moonlight sample.
- 02
Check the price
Moonlight 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.
- 03
Generate
Your Moonlight clip renders in the background, lands in History and is never published.
Do the move yourself
Moonlight keeps one version of this shot. To give Moonlight your own motion or ending, write it yourself in Image to Video, starting from the prompt above.
What it does to your photo
Within the first second a beam of cold silver moonlight slants in through a window just out of frame and lands across the person, throwing the cross-shaped shadow of the window panes over their face and onto the background behind them. A night breeze sends the shadows of sheer curtains rippling through the beam. By the third second the face is fully lit in silver-blue with the window shadow lying across it, and they turn into the light and hold a quiet look into the lens. The person stays exactly as they appear in your photo throughout.
In our test runs on MiniMax H3, a bearded man with dark wavy hair in a charcoal knit sweater stood in a dark room with arched windows when, within the first second, a cold silver beam of moonlight fell across him, laying the cross-shaped shadow of the window panes over his face while sheer curtains billowed behind him, and he ended holding a quiet look into the lens. In a second run, a long-haired man in an open-collar white linen shirt by a night-city window was caught by a slanting silver-blue moonbeam within the first second, and from second two the cross-shaped shadow of the window frame lay across his face and shirt as sheer curtains glowed behind him while he held a calm look into the lens.
Dim or indoor photos work best, since the moonlight beam has darkness to cut through. A face turned slightly toward the camera gives the shadow pattern a clear surface to land on. Bright daylight photos lose the night mood. Very tight crops hide the shadows that fall on the wall behind. 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 moody portraits, quiet late-night clips, and atmospheric profile pictures.
Open the prompt in the generator and change "cold silver moonlight" to "pale blue moonlight" for a cooler tone, or "sheer curtains" to "tree branches" for a different shadow pattern.
