# Start here

> Make something with Aivy from nothing. Pick a size, open the accounts, learn which calls stay with you and how to spend without regret.


You want a still, a loop or a whole music video with Aivy in it. This page gets you from an empty folder to a first frame you can show someone, and tells you where the money goes.

## Pick a size

Choose the smallest thing that proves your idea. You can grow it later; you can't shrink a half-finished film.

- **A still.** One image of her in your world. Twenty minutes, a few credits. Start here even if you plan a film: it tells you whether the world works with her face in it.
- **A loop.** One still turned into five seconds of motion. Good for a post, a profile banner or a tour card. One video credit charge.
- **A teaser.** Thirty to forty-five seconds of a song with eight to twelve shots. A weekend.
- **A full video.** A whole song, sixty to a hundred and twenty shots. Plan a few weeks of evenings, or one long week with an agent doing the busywork.

## Open the accounts

You need three tools and a way to cut.

1. **An image model.** We made every still on this site in Kling 3.0 (image). Midjourney and Nano Banana Pro work too. Pick one that accepts a reference image.
2. **A video model** that animates a still: Kling, Seedance, or anything with image-to-video.
3. **A song.** Suno if you write with AI; your own track if you make music.
4. **An editor.** Any timeline editor works. If you set lyrics and titles, do it in the editor, never in the image model.

## The calls that stay with you

An agent can do most of the work. These decisions should stay with a person, because each one is cheap to make early and expensive to undo:

- **The idea in one sentence.** If you can't say what the film is about in one line, the storyboard will wander.
- **Her face.** Look at the first three stills and confirm she reads as Aivy: warm golden blonde hair past her shoulders, freckles, pale icy-blue eyes, no tattoos, 25 and clearly grown up.
- **The song.** Listen to the whole take before you plan a single shot around it.
- **The board.** Approve the shot list before anyone spends video credits.
- **The cut.** Watch the full edit once at normal speed, with sound, before you call it done.

## Spend in this order

Stills are cheap and video is not. On Kling in October 2026 a 2k still cost 2 credits and a five-second 1080p clip cost 50. Spend that way round:

- Make four stills of a shot, pick one, then animate only the pick.
- Never animate a still you would not post as a still.
- Keep a running note of credits per shot. It tells you early when a scene is eating the budget.

## Your first hour

1. Read the [canon](/aivy/) and copy the identity text.
2. Open the [studio](/studio/), pick a look and a framing, and describe your scene in one sentence.
3. Paste the prompt into your image model with the face sheet attached as a reference.
4. Check the result against the [checklist](/wiki/consistency/#the-check). Reroll anything that fails it.
5. When one still passes, animate it.

If you work with an agent, connect it to the [MCP server](/agents/) first. It can read this wiki, search every prompt on the site and build prompts for you.