How to Make an AI Zombie Video: Two Photos, One Film

The zombie trend film has two parts and seven shots. Part one is the standoff, in a bare farmhouse room unless you pick another world. Part two is a memory in a hillside meadow, where both of them look the way they did before. These are the times the prompt asks for:

In our three zombie trend renders of 9 October every shot came in that order, but the leap arrived about a second and a half late, so the meadow ran for about four and a half seconds instead of six. The sound follows the story: wind, shaky breathing, one growl and the thud of the gun in the farmhouse, then a soft piano theme and quiet laughter in the meadow. Nobody speaks, so there is nothing to translate. The frames below are the seven shots of our 16:9 render of 9 October.

The zombie trend prompt asks the model to keep each face and hairstyle exactly as in the photos and to ignore the backgrounds. So the face is what matters. A kitchen, a beach or a white wall behind it makes no difference.

JPG, PNG, WebP and iPhone HEIC photos all work, up to 25 MB each. Very tall or very wide crops are refused; crop closer to the person. The outfit is a different story: the prompt keeps faces and hair, not clothes. In our renders the survivor still wore the grey sweater from her photo, while the man who turned got a torn, dusty shirt in the farmhouse and a white T-shirt in the meadow.

The generator renders 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4 and 21:9, and the frame does not change the price. Pick 16:9 for YouTube or a big screen, 9:16 to fill a phone for TikTok, Reels and Shorts. The zombie trend story is the same in both. The frames below are the same moment, the leap in the farmhouse, from our 16:9 and 9:16 renders of 9 October.

Tall frames get one extra sentence in the prompt that keeps both bodies small and full length during the leap. Our first 9:16 render, before that sentence existed, jumped to the meadow a second and a half early.

Watch the whole zombie trend film once with the sound on. These are the moments to look at:

• Shot 1 and shot 4: is the survivor’s face yours, and clean, with tears and no zombie marks?
• Shot 3: does the zombie close-up still read as the person or pet in the right photo?
• Shot 4 and 5: does the gun land on the floor and stay there?
• Shot 6: does the leap carry into the meadow, and is there no gun in the grass?
• Shot 7: do both faces look like the photos?

Two things we saw in our own zombie trend renders and could not fully prompt away: the leap comes a little late, and in the wide shot of the leap the one who turned can already look healthy. If a face drifts, try a sharper, more direct photo for that slot. A new render is a new film, not a repair of the old one, and it costs credits again. If a render fails outright, the credits return to your balance automatically. Here is our 16:9 zombie trend render of 9 October to compare yours with:

Our render

Only use photos of people who said yes. Our terms ask for that, and for a parent or guardian's consent for anyone under 18. Say the zombie trend video is AI-made when you post it; TikTok, Instagram and YouTube all ask creators to label realistic AI video. The MP4 itself carries the video model's own "made with AI" label (C2PA) in its file data. Your uploaded photos are deleted 7 days after the render finishes; the film stays in My videos until you delete it.