Awa Video
Ask Awa to animate an image or direct a storyboard ad — a cinematic clip with audio, generated and played right in the chat.
Updated 2026-06-13

Overview
Awa can turn your images into short cinematic videos. Powered by ByteDance Seedance 2.0, she produces clips up to 15 seconds with automatically generated audio (music, sound effects, even voice) — without you ever touching a timeline. It's all conversational: you ask, she plans, you confirm, and the clip plays right in the chat.
How it works
There are two modes, and Awa picks the right one from what you ask:
- Animate a single image — "animate this" turns one frame into a short clip, with optional first→last-frame keyframing.
- Storyboard ad (the director workflow) — "make me a 15s ad" runs the full pipeline: a creative brief, a character reference sheet, a set of burned-label panels (SCENE | TIME | ROLE), and finally one cinematic clip that references up to 9 panels as @Image1..@Image9, with a music arc and an end card.
Awa always shows a plan and the credit cost and waits for your go — video is the most expensive operation. After she's generated an animatable image, she'll also offer, once, to bring it to life.
After the clip
The video plays inline in the chat. From there you can cut a 9:16 version for Reels/TikTok, rebuild with new panels or a different story arc, generate a matching still hero shot, or have Awa draft the proposal copy to send with all the assets. You can also multi-select 2–9 gallery frames and hit Make video to seed the whole thing from existing shots.
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