How to Generate a Video With Wan in 4 Steps
No timeline, no keyframes — just describe the shot and let Wan render it.
Describe your scene
Write a prompt in plain language — the subject, the camera movement, the lighting and the mood. Cinematic phrasing gives Wan more to work with, so "slow aerial pan over misty mountains at sunrise" beats a bare keyword list.
Choose a style and aspect ratio
Pick one of four Style presets — Cinematic, Nature, Urban or Fantasy — to set the overall look, then choose an aspect ratio that fits where the clip will live, from widescreen to vertical.
Generate with Wan
Run the prompt and let Alibaba's Wan model render your clip. Motion stays smooth across frames, with consistent subjects and believable lighting.
Review and download
Watch the result and download it with no watermark. If a shot isn't quite right, tweak the wording or switch the style and generate again.
How the Wan AI Video Generator Works
From a single line of text to a moving, cinematic clip — powered by Alibaba's Wan model.
How it works
The Wan AI video generator is an text-to-video tool that turns a written prompt into a short cinematic clip using Alibaba's Wan model. You describe the scene — the subject, the camera movement, the lighting, the mood — and Wan renders it as fluid video with detailed motion and consistent framing, right in your browser with no signup.
Where older text-to-video models produced flickery, unstable frames, Wan holds motion together across the whole clip. A dolly shot stays smooth, a character keeps their features from frame to frame, and reflections or water behave the way you'd expect on screen. If you already build visuals with our AI image generator, this is the natural step into motion.
Cinematic Language In, Cinematic Shots Out
Under the hood, Wan reads your prompt as a full scene description rather than a list of keywords. The more cinematic language you feed it — "slow push-in on a rain-soaked street at dusk, neon reflections, shallow depth of field" — the closer the result lands to what you pictured. Camera moves, pacing and atmosphere all respond to how you phrase the Wan AI text to video prompt, and a Style preset (Cinematic, Nature, Urban or Fantasy) sets the overall look before you even start writing.
Because it works from plain text, there's no timeline to edit or keyframes to set. You write, generate, and review. If a clip isn't quite right, you adjust the wording and run it again — the same way you'd refine a scene in our broader text to video AI workflow until it clicks.
Test Ideas Before Committing a Real Budget
Doing this by hand would mean storyboarding, filming or 3D rendering, then hours of editing. Wan collapses that into a prompt and a short wait. For anyone testing an idea before committing a real budget, that speed changes what's worth trying at all.
It fits alongside the rest of a visual workflow rather than replacing it. Generate a clip here, pull a clean still, sharpen it with our image upscaler, or bring an existing photo to life with our image to video AI for a different kind of shot. The video is the centerpiece; the surrounding tools handle the polish.
Who the Wan AI Video Generator Is For
For anyone who needs a moving clip from an idea, without a film crew or an editing suite.
Creators who want Wan specifically
People who've heard about Alibaba's Wan model and want its motion quality directly, without setting up an API or a dev environment — just a prompt and a browser.
Social and short-form video makers
Creators building vertical clips for TikTok, Reels or Shorts who need fast, watermark-video from a text idea in a matching aspect ratio.
Marketers and small teams
People testing a concept for an ad or landing page who want to see a moving version of an idea before committing budget to a real shoot.
Designers and illustrators moving into motion
Visual creators who already work with AI stills and want a low-friction way to add motion to their workflow, no timeline editing involved.
Storytellers and hobbyists
Writers and worldbuilders who want to picture a scene — a fantasy landscape, an urban night, a nature vista — as a short cinematic clip from a single prompt.
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This tool runs on the Pro plan — video generation is not part of the free tier. Clips then use credits from that plan, and the exact cost appears on the generate button before you commit.
Free
- Limited credits to try CreArt
- Access to core tools
- Standard resolution
Starter
- 4,000 credits per month
- Premium access
- Ad-free
- Private Community posts
Creator
- 10,000 credits per month
- Premium access
- Ad-free
- Private Community posts
- More room for video and image
Pro
- 25,000 credits per month
- Premium access
- Ad-free
- Private Community posts
- Credit packs available
- Highest generation volume
Why Choose the Wan AI Video Generator
Built for people who want a cinematic clip from text without touching an editing timeline.
Stable motion across the clip
Wan keeps subjects and camera moves consistent frame to frame, so a pan or push-in reads as one continuous shot instead of a stack of flickering stills.
Prompt-driven shot control
Camera angle, pacing, lighting and atmosphere all respond to how you phrase the prompt — you direct the shot in words rather than editing a timeline.
Four style presets
Cinematic, Nature, Urban and Fantasy each set a distinct look before you write, so the same prompt can land as a moody film scene or a bright outdoor clip.
In the browser, no watermark
Run Wan AI video generation online in seconds with no signup and no watermark stamped over the result. Write, generate and download from the same page.
Any aspect ratio
Choose the ratio that matches the destination — widescreen for landing pages, vertical for short-form. Check our TikTok video size guide when you plan a 9:16 clip.
Part of a full toolkit
Pair a Wan clip with our animation, GIF and upscaling tools to cover a whole visual project without hopping between apps.