Pick a dance clip, add one clear photo, and a motion control tool redraws the dancer as you. Which dances work, which photo to use, duets, pets and posting rules.
You don't need to learn the steps. Pick a dance clip, add one clear photo of your face, and a motion control tool redraws the dancer as you. The moves and the camera come straight from the original clip.
The clip you pick and the photo you give decide almost everything. Every result on this page comes from Distribea Motion Control or our home page, and shows what works.
Type "AI dance generator" into Google and you get two families of tools that look alike.
The first family animates a photo with moves chosen by the app. You upload a picture, pick a style from a menu, and your photo dances a routine the app already has. Fast, but you only get what is in the menu.
The second family copies a real dance video. That is motion control: you give it the exact clip you want, a TikTok trend or a routine you filmed with friends, and it puts you in place of the dancer. Any choreography you can find or film works, including the one everyone is posting this week.
Distribea is in the second family. Its Motion Library has a Dance category and a Trending section, and you can upload your own clip too.
Here is a test that takes five seconds. Pause the clip on its fastest moment. If you can't tell where the hands and feet are, the model can't either, and the remake will blur right there.
The whole body should stay in the frame, feet included. When a kick sends the feet below the bottom edge, the model makes them up for those frames.
Plenty of dance edits jump between angles on every beat, and the face tends to shift on each jump. A version filmed in one take keeps your face steadier from start to finish.
Watch for anyone walking in front of the dancer, and for club lights that flash between colors. The first hides the body for a moment. The second makes the skin tone of the remake flicker.
On length: Distribea takes clips of 4 to 30 seconds. If you want the clip's own music in the result, keep it between 5 and 15 seconds, because those clips come back with their sound.
Use a recent photo where your face is easy to read: daylight from a window, eyes on the lens, hair off the face, no sunglasses. Filters smooth the skin, and the remake inherits that smoothness.
A dance video shows your whole body, so your clothes count as much as your face. With a face photo only, the outfit in the video won't be yours. Add a second photo of what you are wearing and the remake puts you in your own clothes. A plain mirror selfie in good light does the job.
Spins are where a single photo falls short, since a front view says nothing about the back of your head. For routines with turns, use a character sheet as your photo: one image that shows you from several sides.
Duets work the same way. In Copy the motion, add one photo per person, up to four, and each dancer in the clip is replaced by the person in the matching photo.
Pets work too. Give a clear photo of your dog in place of a face photo and the dog takes the dancer's place.
That last pair shows a limit of motion control. The poodle took the first dog's place and the pose held, but the back wall of the remake gained a row of lights. The moves stay locked to the original, while small parts of the scene can drift. Check the remake at full size before posting.
Knowing which moves still trip the models saves credits.
Floor work trips the models. When the dancer rolls on the ground, the body folds into shapes the model rarely sees, and limbs can merge for a few frames.
So do fast spins: one slow turn is fine, three fast ones in a second give the model a blur to copy. A hand sweeping across the face causes the same kind of trouble: the face disappears for a moment and can come back slightly changed.
Mirrors and heavy effects cause their own mess. A studio mirror adds a second dancer, and filters or speed ramps leave smeared frames. Pick a version filmed away from the mirror, as plain as you can find.
When a result disappoints, change the clip before you change the photo. Most of the time the fix is a cleaner source.
On TikTok or Instagram, pick the trend's original sound from the app's sound library. Your video then shows up on that sound's page, where people browsing the trend find it. The trend belongs to the person who started it, so credit them in your caption.
Use your own face, or the face of someone who agreed. Never a child's.
For a track of your own under the edit, the same Distribea plan includes our royalty-free music library. Credits come with every plan, and on Starter a month of them pays for up to 6 Motion Control videos. The details are on the pricing page.
Yes. One clear face photo is enough to start. For a full-body dance, add a photo of your outfit, and use a character sheet if the routine has turns.
The original is blurry or hidden at that moment, usually a fast spin or a hand over the face. Trim the clip to a calmer part, or pick another version of the dance. For more on how the model reads a clip, see what motion control AI is and how it works.
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