The Lil Yachty walkout, the hardest walkout ever, starring you from one photo

How to make a Lil Yachty walkout video yourself

You do not need this page to make one. This is how the video is put together, with the prompts for every shot, so you can build it with any picture model and image-to-video model you like.

1. Step 1

   Start from a head-to-toe photo

   Use one photo of yourself standing, the whole body in frame from head to shoes, face clear. The high-step is all knees and trainers, and a picture model given only a selfie makes up your legs, trousers and shoes anew in every still, so the outfit changes from shot to shot.

2. Step 2

   Draw each still from the photo

   Use a picture model that takes a reference photo and draw the four stills: close up backstage with the microphone, at the front of the stage in three-quarter view, seen from behind on the catwalk, and facing the camera on the way back. Describe the festival, the catwalk and the microphone in full every time, since each still is drawn on its own.

3. Step 3

   Animate each still and cut to the clip

   Give each still to an image-to-video model with the move spelt out. Trim the backstage shot to 4.5 seconds, the crowd shot to 3, the high-step to 4.5 and the strut back to 4, lay them end to end at 9:16 with hard cuts, and add the walkout sound from its start on TikTok: the catwalk then starts where it does in the original clip.

The shots, second by second

The prompts, shot by shot

Each shot is made in two steps. Give its still prompt to a picture model with your photo as the reference, then give the picture it draws to an image-to-video model with the motion prompt. Add these endings to every prompt: they set the look and keep the faces the same from shot to shot.

1. 0–4.5sBackstage

   Still prompt

   Copy

   A close shot from the chest up: the head and shoulders of the person in the reference photo, in their own clothes from the photo, fill the frame, their eyes about a third of the way down the picture. They stand backstage at a festival, about to walk out, holding a plain black wireless microphone with no logo or writing on it at chest height in one hand, chin up, face in full view and lit by warm daylight spilling in from the stage ahead of them, with a cool, fearless look, mouth closed. Behind them, out of focus, the dark backstage: black drapes, black scaffolding, flight cases and coiled cables. Nobody else is in the frame.

   Motion prompt

   Copy

   They stride forward toward the camera and the bright stage beyond it with a confident bounce, while the camera moves backward ahead of them at the same pace, so they stay close in the frame; then they throw the hand holding the microphone high above their head, hyping themselves up. They do not talk, sing or mouth any words. The golden late-afternoon light stays the same throughout and does not change.

2. 4.5–7.5sThe crowd

   Still prompt

   Copy

   At the front edge of the main stage, the person in the reference photo, in their own clothes from the photo, stands seen from the knees up, a plain black wireless microphone with no logo or writing on it in one hand, looking out over the crowd in three-quarter view, their face in full view and lit by the low golden sun, calm and supremely confident. The camera is at the side of the stage, a little in front of them. Below and beyond them, a huge outdoor music festival: thousands of fans packed into a wide grassy field with their hands in the air, stretching back to a line of trees on the horizon under a hazy, glowing late-afternoon sky. Nobody holds a flag, sign or banner, and nothing has a logo, word, number or letter on it. Black speaker stacks stand at the edge of the stage.

   Motion prompt

   Copy

   They raise the microphone high above their head toward the crowd, and the whole crowd roars and throws its hands up; they nod slowly, soaking it in. The camera drifts slowly closer. They do not talk, sing or mouth any words. The golden late-afternoon light stays the same throughout and does not change.

3. 7.5–12sThe high-step

   Still prompt

   Copy

   Seen from behind, from the stage end of a long, narrow catwalk of bare wooden boards, about two metres wide and raised above the crowd, running straight out from the main stage into the middle of the crowd. The person in the reference photo, in their own clothes and shoes from the photo, a plain black wireless microphone with no logo or writing on it in one hand, is a few steps down the catwalk, walking away from the camera toward the crowd, seen head to toe and caught at the top of a high step: one knee raised to hip height with the thigh level with the boards and the foot hanging below it, the other leg straight. The catwalk runs straight ahead into the crowd, which packs both sides of it. All around, a huge outdoor music festival: thousands of fans packed into a wide grassy field with their hands in the air, stretching back to a line of trees on the horizon under a hazy, glowing late-afternoon sky. Nobody holds a flag, sign or banner, and nothing has a logo, word, number or letter on it.

   Motion prompt

   Copy

   They high-step down the catwalk away from the camera in a big, exaggerated march with a bounce on every step: each knee shoots up to hip height, the thigh level with the boards, and the trainer stamps down as the other knee comes up, arms swinging loosely, the microphone in one hand, their back to the camera the whole time, while the camera follows a few steps behind them. The crowd on both sides jumps and waves its hands. They do not talk, sing or mouth any words. The golden late-afternoon light stays the same throughout and does not change.

4. 12–16sThe strut back

   Still prompt

   Copy

   Seen from the stage end of a long, narrow catwalk of bare wooden boards, about two metres wide and raised above the crowd, running straight out from the main stage into the middle of the crowd. The person in the reference photo, in their own clothes and shoes from the photo, faces the camera about eight metres away, seen head to toe, high-stepping back up the catwalk toward it with one knee lifted high, a plain black wireless microphone with no logo or writing on it raised in one hand, face in full view with a fearless, triumphant look. Behind them and on both sides, a huge outdoor music festival: thousands of fans packed into a wide grassy field with their hands in the air, stretching back to a line of trees on the horizon under a hazy, glowing late-afternoon sky. Nobody holds a flag, sign or banner, and nothing has a logo, word, number or letter on it.

   Motion prompt

   Copy

   They high-step back up the catwalk toward the camera with the same bouncy, exaggerated strut, each knee up to hip height, the microphone held high, eyes on the lens, while the camera backs away ahead of them. The crowd behind them jumps and cheers. They do not talk, sing or mouth any words. The golden late-afternoon light stays the same throughout and does not change.

Where it goes wrong

• Keep the face in the still

  The free first shot and the last one are the ones where people see it is you, so draw them with the face in full view and lit. Turning round in the middle of a clip is where a video model swaps a face for a new one, so the strut back is drawn already facing the camera rather than turning on the catwalk.

• Keep the crowd free of words

  A festival crowd is where a picture model puts flags, signs, banners and a festival name on a screen. Say nobody holds a flag, sign or banner and that nothing has a logo, word, number or letter on it, and say the microphone has no logo either.

• Spell out the catwalk

  Describe the walkway exactly: a long, narrow catwalk of wooden boards running straight from the stage into the middle of the crowd, as in the clip. A loose word for it can come back as an airfield, and saying the crowd packs both sides of it keeps the high-step surrounded by fans rather than on an empty stage.

• Say the light stays the same

  A still in golden late-afternoon light does not keep that light in its clip on its own. Say in every motion prompt that the light stays the same throughout, or a clip can drift to midday or dusk halfway through the walk.

• Only people who said yes

  Use your own photo or one of someone who agreed. Do not use celebrities, the rapper from the original clip, people from anyone else's posts, or anyone who has not agreed to be in the video: a realistic video of a real person made without their consent can hurt them, and platforms take it down.

• Label it as AI-generated

  Switch on TikTok's AI-generated content label before you post. A realistic clip of someone walking out in front of thousands of people is exactly the kind viewers ask about, and they trust a post that says so.