The wassup in a minute trend, drawn as your own anime character

How to make a wassup in a minute 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

   Draw the first pose from your photo

   Use a picture model that takes a reference photo and draw the first pose, hands in the pockets, with nothing in the hands. Say up front that it is an original anime drawing of the person in the photo, then the outfit, the pose and the shadow, and end with the drawing style and the white background.

2. Step 2

   Draw the other three from the first one

   For the folded arms, the point and the cash fan, give the picture model your photo and the first drawing as a second reference, and ask it to keep the face, the hair, the clothes and the drawing style from that drawing but draw the pose you describe. Drawn on their own, each one comes back a slightly different character.

3. Step 3

   Animate each pose, then cut on the beat

   Give each drawing to an image-to-video model with the sway: rocking side to side from the feet, the head bobbing, the feet planted, the same drawing and the white background unchanged, the camera still. Trim each clip to 3.53 seconds, lay them end to end at 9:16 with a quick flash of white between them, and add the sound on TikTok.

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. 0–3.5sHands in pockets

   Still prompt

   Copy

   An original anime drawing of the person in the reference photo, not any existing anime, manga or game character: their face is drawn in anime style with their own face shape, eyes, skin tone, hair colour and hairstyle. Seen head to toe, small in the middle of the picture, the shoes well above the bottom edge. They wear a glossy black puffer jacket hanging open over a plain white T-shirt, a thin silver chain, baggy light-blue jeans with a brown leather belt and chunky white trainers. The jacket is only plain, smooth quilted panels, with no logo, label, patch or lettering on the chest or anywhere else, and nothing they wear has any print or writing. They stand with their weight on one leg, both hands tucked into the front pockets of the jeans, the open jacket pushed back, chin slightly up, looking straight at the viewer with a calm, cocky look and a small closed-mouth smirk. A soft grey drop shadow of them falls on the white just behind, like a cut-out sticker.

   Motion prompt

   Copy

   They sway side to side on the beat from their feet, leaning a little to the left, then a little to the right, about two sways a second, their head and shoulders bobbing along just behind with small, cocky nods, and their feet stay planted on the same spot. Their hands stay in their pockets, and the jacket, the chain and their hair swing a little with the sway. It stays the same flat, hand-drawn anime drawing, with the same ink lines, shading and colours, from the first frame to the last, never 3D or photographic. The background stays plain pure white the whole time, with only their soft grey shadow, which moves with them. The camera does not move, pan or zoom.

2. 3.5–7.1sArms folded

   Still prompt

   Copy

   An original anime drawing of the person in the reference photo, not any existing anime, manga or game character: their face is drawn in anime style with their own face shape, eyes, skin tone, hair colour and hairstyle. Seen head to toe, small in the middle of the picture, the shoes well above the bottom edge. They wear a glossy black puffer jacket hanging open over a plain white T-shirt, a thin silver chain, baggy light-blue jeans with a brown leather belt and chunky white trainers. The jacket is only plain, smooth quilted panels, with no logo, label, patch or lettering on the chest or anywhere else, and nothing they wear has any print or writing. They stand with their arms folded across their chest over the open jacket, head turned a little to one side, looking at the viewer out of the corner of their eyes with a calm, unbothered look, mouth closed. A soft grey drop shadow of them falls on the white just behind, like a cut-out sticker.

   Motion prompt

   Copy

   They sway side to side on the beat from their feet, leaning a little to the left, then a little to the right, about two sways a second, their head and shoulders bobbing along just behind with small, cocky nods, and their feet stay planted on the same spot. Their arms stay folded, and the jacket, the chain and their hair swing a little with the sway. It stays the same flat, hand-drawn anime drawing, with the same ink lines, shading and colours, from the first frame to the last, never 3D or photographic. The background stays plain pure white the whole time, with only their soft grey shadow, which moves with them. The camera does not move, pan or zoom.

3. 7.1–10.6sThe point

   Still prompt

   Copy

   An original anime drawing of the person in the reference photo, not any existing anime, manga or game character: their face is drawn in anime style with their own face shape, eyes, skin tone, hair colour and hairstyle. Seen head to toe, small in the middle of the picture, the shoes well above the bottom edge. They wear a glossy black puffer jacket hanging open over a plain white T-shirt, a thin silver chain, baggy light-blue jeans with a brown leather belt and chunky white trainers. The jacket is only plain, smooth quilted panels, with no logo, label, patch or lettering on the chest or anywhere else, and nothing they wear has any print or writing. They point at the viewer with one hand at chest height, the elbow bent, the other hand in the front pocket of the jeans, with a confident grin, mouth closed. A soft grey drop shadow of them falls on the white just behind, like a cut-out sticker.

   Motion prompt

   Copy

   They sway side to side on the beat from their feet, leaning a little to the left, then a little to the right, about two sways a second, their head and shoulders bobbing along just behind with small, cocky nods, and their feet stay planted on the same spot. The pointing hand stays pointing and gives a small jab toward the viewer on the beat; the jacket, the chain and their hair swing a little. It stays the same flat, hand-drawn anime drawing, with the same ink lines, shading and colours, from the first frame to the last, never 3D or photographic. The background stays plain pure white the whole time, with only their soft grey shadow, which moves with them. The camera does not move, pan or zoom.

4. 10.6–14.1sThe cash fan

   Still prompt

   Copy

   An original anime drawing of the person in the reference photo, not any existing anime, manga or game character: their face is drawn in anime style with their own face shape, eyes, skin tone, hair colour and hairstyle. Seen head to toe, small in the middle of the picture, the shoes well above the bottom edge. They wear a glossy black puffer jacket hanging open over a plain white T-shirt, a thin silver chain, baggy light-blue jeans with a brown leather belt and chunky white trainers. The jacket is only plain, smooth quilted panels, with no logo, label, patch or lettering on the chest or anywhere else, and nothing they wear has any print or writing. At chest height, one hand fans out a thick fan of plain light-green paper notes, flat colour on both sides with nothing printed on them; the other hand holds the jacket collar. Their face is three-quarters to the viewer, eyes a little to the side, with a cocky half-smile, mouth closed. A soft grey drop shadow of them falls on the white just behind, like a cut-out sticker.

   Motion prompt

   Copy

   They sway side to side on the beat from their feet, leaning a little to the left, then a little to the right, about two sways a second, their head and shoulders bobbing along just behind with small, cocky nods, and their feet stay planted on the same spot. The hand with the green paper notes keeps them fanned out at chest height and gives them a small flick on the beat; the other hand stays on the collar. It stays the same flat, hand-drawn anime drawing, with the same ink lines, shading and colours, from the first frame to the last, never 3D or photographic. The background stays plain pure white the whole time, with only their soft grey shadow, which moves with them. The camera does not move, pan or zoom.

Where it goes wrong

• Say it is a drawing, every time

  Without a word on style, a picture model reaches for a realistic, cinematic look, and a video model can drift from a flat drawing into something glossy and 3D partway through a clip. Say in every still that it is a hand-drawn 2D anime illustration on flat white, and in every clip that it stays the same drawing to the last frame.

• Keep all four poses in one style

  Draw every pose with the same picture model and the same wording for the character, the outfit and the style. Some tools quietly hand a long prompt to a different model, and a different model draws a different anime: in our tests the poses drawn that way came back flatter and older-looking, with the moustache gone. Keep each prompt short enough to stay on one model.

• Call the cash plain green paper

  Ask for money and a picture model draws real-looking banknotes with a portrait on them, and once a column of coins with heads on them beside the character. Describe a fan of plain light-green paper notes with nothing printed on them: it still reads as cash, without a face on it.

• Say the jacket is nothing but quilted panels

  A puffer jacket comes back with a maker's name across the chest even when the prompt says no logo: in our first sample all four poses had a small strip of black-on-black lettering there. Say the jacket is only plain, smooth quilted panels, with no logo, label, patch or lettering on the chest or anywhere else.

• Expect the figure to fill the frame

  However small you ask for the character, a picture model tends to draw a standing figure from the top of the frame almost to the bottom. Ask for space below the shoes anyway, and do not zoom in when you edit, or the shoes are the first thing you lose.

• Only people who said yes

  Use your own photo or one of someone who agreed. Do not use celebrities, or anyone who has not agreed to be in the video: even as a drawing, a 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. Hand-drawn edits are what this trend is made of, and viewers want to know which ones were drawn by a person and which by an AI.