Wan 2.2 Animate

Wan 2.2 Animate is the image-to-video route of the Wan 2.2 family: you provide a still image and the model produces a clip that moves from it. It is the version to reach for when the frame you care about already exists — a photograph, a character sheet, a product render — and what you need is motion inside that exact composition rather than a new scene invented from a description.

What the route does, and what it does not

The model keeps the still you supplied and animates from it. It does not redraw the scene, and it cannot show you an angle your image never contained: if the subject is photographed from the front, no prompt will reveal the back. That constraint is the point — it is what makes the output stay recognisably the image you chose.

Because the composition is fixed, the prompt's job narrows sharply. You are not describing a scene; you are directing what changes inside it. "Slow push in, she turns towards the camera" is a complete instruction. Re-describing the whole picture spends the prompt on information the model already has.

Getting a still that animates well

Source quality decides more of the result than any setting. Three things matter most:

• Leave room for the movement. A subject cut off at the frame edge has nowhere to travel. A little air around the subject gives the camera somewhere to go.
• Sharpen before you animate, not after. A blurry source animates into a blurry clip. Upscale or re-shoot first, while the image is still cheap to regenerate.
• Match the aspect ratio to the destination. Deciding the crop now is cheaper than fixing it after the render.

Supply the image by public URL or upload in the form, then describe only the motion. If the movement drifts where you do not want it — a face distorting, the background creeping — name that in the negative prompt rather than adding more to the positive one.

Settings worth understanding

• Route and model — the routes offered in the form are the ones available at the time; the live controls are the source of truth, not this page.
• Resolution and duration — both raise the credit cost, shown beside the form before you submit. Start low while you iterate the prompt, then re-run at the size you will actually publish.
• Seed — fix it to compare two prompts against the same starting image; leave it empty for a fresh attempt.
• Negative prompt — where the artefacts you want suppressed belong, such as blur or warping.

When to use something else

Animate is the wrong tool when the shot does not exist yet — for that, text to video builds the scene from a description. It is also the wrong tool for extending a clip that already exists, which is what extend a video is for, and for repairing a still image, which is edit an image. Related pages: the Wan 2.2 model page, the Wan workspace, and image to video.

Treat the first render as a test. Quality varies by route and by how large a movement you ask for: small, plausible motion is the easy case, and asking a static image for a large change is the hardest one.

Questions people ask

How many images can I animate at once? One starting frame per generation; run several if you need several.

What does it cost? The credit cost appears beside the form before you submit and depends on the model, resolution and duration. Credit prices are on pricing.

Can I use the output commercially? Check the licence that applies to the model route you used; terms differ between versions.

Where do I start? Open the Wan workspace and choose the Wan 2.2 image-to-video tab.