A developer's walkthrough of the stages behind "make this photo dance": pose extraction, conditioning, temporal consistency, and encoding for vertical video.

"Upload a photo, get a dancing video" is one of the easiest AI features to describe and one of the trickiest to make look good. Under the hood it's a pipeline of several separate problems, and each one can quietly ruin the output.

This article walks through that pipeline at an architectural level. It's based on the kind of system behind tools like AI Dance Generator , which turns one image into a 9:16 MP4.…