MiniMax

About MiniMax

MiniMax's Hailuo video models are best known for expressive character performance and convincing physics. Faces emote, bodies carry weight, cloth and hair respond to movement, and objects interact with the world in ways that mostly obey gravity. That combination makes Hailuo a common pick for character-driven clips, comedic beats, and anything where the acting is the point rather than the backdrop.

On this page you will find prompts for dramatic reactions, dance and sports motion, stylized 3D and anime-adjacent characters, and physical gags (things falling, splashing, bouncing). Prompts that describe an emotion arc (starts bored, notices something, lights up) get more out of the model than prompts that describe a static pose. Image-to-video prompts using a character still as the starting frame are also common here, since the model tends to preserve the source design while adding performance.

Prompting tips

• Describe the performance as a change over time (from X to Y), not a single expression; the model animates the transition.
• For physics, name the material and the force: heavy glass dropped, silk in wind. Vague 'realistic physics' adds nothing.
• When starting from an image, keep the text prompt about motion only. Re-describing the look fights the source frame.