Wan Animate Video Generator

About Wan 2.2 Animate

Wan 2.2 Animate is the animate workspace with a text field. It takes a character image and a driving clip as required inputs, then accepts an optional prompt to steer the scene, the lighting or the pacing on top of the performance the footage already carries. Two modes, two resolutions, one endpoint, and a charge per second of output.

The mode selector offers animate and replace, and both are handed straight to the provider with the two uploads. The labels above them read as text to video and image to video, which overstates the difference: the form refuses to submit without a driving clip in either mode, so treat the switch as a choice of how much of the original scene survives rather than as a prompt-only path. The prompt is genuinely optional. Leave it empty and the job is a straight restaging; fill it in and Wan 2.2 Animate is asked to reconcile the written direction with the motion it was given, which is useful for fixing a lighting mismatch or slowing a beat.

Pricing is simpler here than on the sibling animate page. There are two resolutions, 480p at 75 credits per second and 720p at 150, with the panel estimating on an eight-second run, so 600 or 1,200 credits. The endpoint's own wait estimate is about three minutes at 480p and five at 720p, which makes the lower tier the honest place to test whether a clip and a character image belong together at all. Uploads are the tighter part of the page: the character image is capped at 20MB in JPEG, PNG, WebP or GIF, while the driving video can run to 200MB in MP4, MOV, WebM, M4V or GIF. A seed of -1 draws a random result, and a fixed seed holds a take steady.

Choosing between this page and the Wan Animate studio comes down to three things. Here you get a prompt field, a 200MB video cap, and a 720p wait that runs longer than the other page's. There you get a 580p tier, a 50MB image cap, and deeper sampler controls: inference steps, frame shift, quality and write mode. If the restaging needs to be described in words, or corrected after a first pass, Wan 2.2 Animate gives you somewhere to put that instruction. If it needs to be tuned like a render rather than directed like a shot, the studio page has the dials.

How Wan 2.2 Animate works

1. 1

   Upload the character and the clip

   Image in JPEG, PNG, WebP or GIF up to 20MB; video in MP4, MOV, WebM, M4V or GIF up to 200MB. Both are required before the generate button will run, whichever mode is selected.

2. 2

   Choose a mode and optionally a prompt

   Animate or replace decides how much of the original scene carries over. The prompt is optional: use it to reconcile lighting, pacing or a detail the footage does not supply.

3. 3

   Set resolution, seed and generate

   480p at 75 credits per second or 720p at 150, estimated on an eight-second run. Seed -1 is random; a fixed number repeats a take. Failed jobs refund the charge automatically.

What Wan 2.2 Animate is best for

• Correcting a restaging in words

  Run the clip once, then add a prompt that names the light or the pace you want changed; the model reads that alongside the driving motion instead of you reshooting the footage.

• Longer driving clips

  The 200MB video ceiling covers a short performance take without re-encoding it down first, which is where tighter upload limits usually cost a step.

• Cheap compatibility checks

  A 480p pass at 75 credits per second answers whether this image can wear this performance before you spend 720p credits on the question.

• Holding a take steady

  Pin the seed once a restaging works, then vary only the prompt; the performance stays put while the written direction moves.

Wan 2.2 Animate at a glance

Model

Wan 2.2 Animate, run through WaveSpeed

Modes

Animate and replace, both requiring a character image and a driving clip

Resolution

480p or 720p

Credit cost

75 credits per second at 480p, 150 at 720p; the panel estimates on an eight-second run, 600 or 1,200 credits

Inputs

Character image up to 20MB (JPEG, PNG, WebP, GIF) and driving video up to 200MB (MP4, MOV, WebM, M4V, GIF); optional prompt and seed

Output

MP4 download from the preview panel; the run is recorded in your task history as a video-to-video job

Wan 2.2 Animate FAQ

Do I have to write a prompt?

No. It runs without one, and the motion comes from the driving clip in that case. The field is there for direction the footage cannot carry, such as a change of lighting, a pace adjustment or a detail the render keeps getting wrong.

What does the mode switch actually change?

Both modes send the same two uploads and the same optional prompt; the mode value changes how the provider treats the original scene. The form requires the video and the image in both settings, so neither mode runs from a prompt alone despite the text-to-video label on one of them.

How much does a run cost?

75 credits per second at 480p and 150 at 720p, with the panel estimating an eight-second run at 600 or 1,200 credits. The charge happens once per job and is refunded if the render fails. New accounts receive 300 credits at signup and 50 per daily login, both expiring after 30 days.

How is this different from the Wan Animate studio?

This page has a prompt field, a 20MB image cap and two resolutions, with a 720p wait estimate near five minutes. The studio page has no prompt, accepts a 50MB image, adds a 580p tier, and exposes inference steps, frame shift, quality and write mode. Use this one to direct a restaging; use that one to tune it.

Can I upload a long video?

The limit is 200MB and the formats are MP4, MOV, WebM, M4V and GIF. There is no duration field in the form, so the length of the take is set entirely by the file you upload; trim it before sending if you only need one phrase of the performance.