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Character Animation Prompt Prompt for CogVideoX

This is the CogVideoX version of the character animation prompt prompt: a character doing one clear action - the reliable way to get usable AI video. It is formatted the way CogVideoX takes prompts best. Free — copy it, replace the bracketed parts, and paste it in.

The prompt

✎ Editable — click in, customize or extend this prompt, then copy. Your edits copy with it.Take this prompt into the Generator and customize it to your own specification →

Reference image — keyframe

Attach a reference image: choose a file, drag & drop it here, or click here and paste. It never leaves your browser.

Attach reference image

Push copies this prompt with a reference line naming your image, and downloads the image file — attach it in the model to complete the pair. This page stages the pair for you; it cannot upload into the model itself (sites cannot reach into each other), so the final attach happens there. The image is downscaled to at most 1024px and stored only in this browser, paired with this prompt. If browser storage is full, it is kept for this visit only.

Using this prompt with CogVideoX

CogVideoX (Zhipu AI / THUDM) is an open-weights video model whose text encoder was trained on dense captions: it wants long, descriptive, caption-style sentences — a full paragraph describing the scene, the subject's appearance, the action and the camera, not a tag list. It does text-to-video and image-to-video at 720p, with no audio. The 2B checkpoint is openly licensed (Apache-2.0); the 5B carries the Tsinghua community license. Runs locally in Diffusers or ComfyUI.

What this route costs — and how to pay less

Cost structure: open weights — CogVideoX runs on your own hardware, so the marginal cost per generation is zero. The same prompt is pre-configured in this library for every major model, so you can run it on whichever route fits your budget — comparing the structures before you generate is a free way to save money.

Replace the bracketed placeholders — [CHARACTER], [ONE CLEAR ACTION], [SETTING] — with your own details before pasting.

Other versions and customization

See all model versions of this prompt, or open the prompt gateway to build a custom prompt from your own one-line goal, formatted for CogVideoX or any other model.

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