The Fergie Baby AI trend, starring you, from one full-body photo

How to make a Fergie Baby video yourself

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

1. Step 1

   Draw one still per shot from a full-body photo

   Use a picture model that takes a reference photo and draw five stills from the same full-body photo: in the gate, mid-walk, hands up by the head, arms overhead, and stopped pointing at the lens. Describe the park, the fence and the path the same way every time so the place does not change between shots.

2. Step 2

   Animate each still with the camera backing away

   Give each still to an image-to-video model with one line about what moves, and say outright that the camera moves backwards at the walker's pace so they stay head to toe in the frame. Ask for one continuous handheld shot with no cuts, and for the last one, a nod and then a dead freeze.

3. Step 3

   Cut a bar apart on the beat

   Find the tempo of the sound first: about 104 beats a minute, so a bar is about 2.3 seconds. Trim the gate to one bar, the walk and the hands to two bars each, the arms to one, and let the freeze run to the end. Lay them end to end at 9:16 with hard cuts and add the sound on TikTok when you post.

The shots, second by second

Where it goes wrong

• Use a full-body photo, not a selfie

  Most of the video shows you head to toe. From a head-and-shoulders photo the model has to make up your trousers and shoes, and with each still drawn on its own it can make them up differently every time. One photo with your whole body in it, in good light, keeps the outfit the same from the gate to the freeze.

• Tell the camera to back away

  Ask only for a walk toward the camera and a video model can let you walk straight into the lens until your face fills the frame, which is not the trend. Say that the camera moves backwards ahead of you at the same pace, so the walk stays a walk.

• Keep the mouth shut and the path empty

  The sound goes on later, so any mouthing in the clips will not match it: say that nobody talks or raps. And say nobody else is on the path, or a picture model may fill an empty park with passers-by who wander through your shot.

• Change the framing at every cut

  Five shots framed the same way cut together like a glitch in one take: you jump a step forward and the trees jump with you. Frame each shot differently, wide for the gate and close for the freeze, so every cut looks like it was meant. Say what is out of frame too: asked only for head to knees, ours came back full length.

• Only people who said yes

  Do not use celebrities, Fergie Baby himself, 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. Realistic AI video of people is expected to carry it, and viewers trust a post that says so.