Quick answer
Starrd's Drake Hotline Bling template turns one photo into Drake's "Hotline Bling" dance in the glowing light-box room: seven shots, every cut and move on the beat, and a new outfit at every cut. Shot one is the outfit from your photo; then a cream cable-knit turtleneck, an open cobalt puffer, a green hoodie, a mustard puffer, a silver puffer and an orange hoodie. It works with pets too. 1 photo, 18 seconds, vertical 9:16, 480p, Seedance 2.5, 200 credits (about $10).
The same dance, any subject — tap one to make it with your photo.
Seven shots, seven glowing rooms and seven outfits. One photo puts you in Drake's "Hotline Bling" dance:
Drake Hotline Bling
One photo. Do the Hotline Bling dance in the glowing light-box room, in a new outfit at every cut. 18 seconds.
What You Get
- The dance in 18 seconds, from "You used to call me on my cell phone" to "And I know when that hotline bling".
- Seven shots, every cut on the beat, where the original cuts.
- A new outfit at every cut. Shot 1 is what you wear in your photo, then six new looks.
- The glowing rooms. Hot pink, blue to green, bright white, orange, pale blue and purple, changing with the shots.
- Your own face and hair in every shot.
- People or pets. A dog or cat dances it standing up.
- Sound. The song is on it.
- Vertical 9:16, ready for TikTok, Reels and Shorts.
What the Video Actually Is
It's the dance from Drake's "Hotline Bling" video, released in 2015 and directed by Director X: Drake alone in bare, seamless rooms that glow one colour at a time, doing a loose, bouncy two-step that turned into one of the most remixed dances on the internet.
@hiphopde, a German hip-hop account, posted an 18-second cut on TikTok on October 24, 2021, for Drake's 35th birthday. It passed 650,000 plays. Drake changes clothes between shots: a red puffer, a turtleneck and a black hoodie. The template keeps that idea and gives you six new looks.
Why it suits AI: the joke of the original is how little Drake does in how many rooms and outfits. Nobody has a light-box room and six puffer jackets at home. One photo covers all of it.
The 18 Seconds, Shot by Shot
| Time | Room | Your outfit | The move |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0s | Hot pink | The outfit from your photo | Hand to the ear like a phone call, then a bouncy knee-lift step |
| 1.6s | Blue, teal, green, violet | Cream cable-knit turtleneck, light jeans, tan boots | The low two-step shuffle, knees bent, arms swinging |
| 5.5s | Bright white | Open cobalt puffer over a white tee | One hand waving like a slow tennis swing, one knee up |
| 7.2s | Pink to orange to backlit | Forest-green hoodie | Leaning in, a hand flicking up by the face, ending as a silhouette |
| 10.3s | Bright white | Zipped mustard-yellow puffer | Both hands up, fingers pointing, hips swaying |
| 11.9s | Pale blue | Silver puffer | Dancing slowly away from the camera |
| 14.1s | Pink, purple, deep blue | Bright orange hoodie | A bouncy two-step to the end |
Your Look
Shot 1 is exactly what you wear in your photo, so pick a photo in an outfit you like. After that, the clothes change at every cut, but your face, hair, facial hair and glasses stay the same. The six new looks have no logos or lettering. A director's note can change the first outfit; the other six stay, because the outfit run is the template.
Use one full-length photo, head to toe, with your face clear. Shot 1 shows the whole outfit from your photo, so a cropped selfie leaves the tool to invent your trousers and shoes.
The Fastest Way
Drake Hotline Bling
You in the Hotline Bling dance: seven glowing rooms, seven outfits. One photo, 18 seconds.
One photo, 200 credits (about $10), no prompt. Vertical 9:16, 480p, 18 seconds, with the song. Find it in Dance.
Build It Yourself
1. Start from the clip. Take the 18-second cut and note where each of the seven shots starts. That's where the outfits change.
2. Make one reference sheet with every outfit. A single image with one band per outfit, each a 360-degree turnaround of you, keeps your face the same while the clothes change.
Image 1 is a photo of one person. Make a photoreal vertical character reference sheet of seven horizontal bands separated by thin black lines, each band four full-length views of the person from Image 1 (front, three-quarter, side, back) in a bare glowing room. Band 1, hot pink room: the outfit from their photo. Band 2, blue room: a chunky cream cable-knit turtleneck, light jeans, tan work boots. Band 3, white room: an open glossy cobalt-blue puffer over a white T-shirt. Band 4, orange room: a forest-green hoodie, black joggers. Band 5, white room: a zipped mustard-yellow puffer. Band 6, pale blue room: a silver puffer, grey joggers. Band 7, purple room: a bright orange hoodie, black cargo pants. Same face and hair in every band, no logos, no text.
3. Drive a video model with the clip. Feed the sheet, your photo and the clip to a model that copies motion from a reference video. Starrd's Character Swap does the swap on your own clip. Tell it which band each shot uses, and that the outfit only changes at a cut.
Common Mistakes
Outfits that fight the dance. A long coat in a shot where Drake wears a short puffer turns into a strange half-coat. Keep each new look close to the shape of what Drake wears in that shot.
Not saying when the outfit changes. Without it, the model swaps clothes halfway through a shot or repeats one. Tie every outfit to one shot and change it only at the cut.
Face-only selfies. Shot 1 is full length, so the tool has to invent the rest of your outfit.
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