How to Make the Hotel Lobby AI Video on Your Phone (Step by Step)

To make the Hotel Lobby AI video, you need two photos – one of each performer – and a generator that puts them side by side in the flat orange booth and animates them. On a phone it takes about three minutes: add the photos in the Hotel Lobby AI generator, pick a beat, tap generate, then share the vertical clip to TikTok or Reels and add the trending sound there.

What you need

• Two photos, one person or pet in each. Upright portraits work best because each photo fills half of a vertical frame.
• Permission from anyone in the photos. Pets, toys and original characters avoid the question entirely.
• A browser. No app or source video is needed.

Step 1: Pick the right photos

Choose sharp photos where the face, shoulders and hands are visible. Plain backgrounds help, because the generator rebuilds the scene as an orange studio booth. Avoid heavy filters and group shots – if three people are in a photo, the model has to guess who is the performer.

If you only have one photo with both people in it, put it in the left slot and leave the right one empty. It works, but two separate photos give each performer more space in the frame.

Step 2: Add them and choose a beat

Open the generator and tap the left and right boxes to add your photos. Then pick a beat: hip-hop is closest to the original trend, but pop, reggaeton, K-pop and jazz give funny variations. The orange booth, the hanging microphone and the back-and-forth performance are already set up – you don't need to write a prompt.

Step 3: Generate

Tap “Make my Hotel Lobby clip”. A 5-second vertical clip takes one to three minutes. It comes with an original AI beat and voices, so it already works on its own.

Step 4: Post it with the trending sound

The trend is recognisable by its sound. To use it:

1. Tap “Share to TikTok / Reels” on your phone, or download the clip.
2. In TikTok or Instagram, mute the clip's own audio.
3. Search for the “Hotel Lobby” sound in the app's music library and add it – the platforms license their music library, so don't upload a copy of the song yourself.
4. Switch on the AI-generated content label before posting.

Ideas that work well

• Two pets: a cat and a dog trading lines is the most shared version of the trend.
• You and a friend: each sends a selfie, one person makes the clip.
• Original characters: two robots, two knights, two toys – easy and safe to post.

You can see examples made with each of these at the top of the generator page.

Common problems

One performer looks blurry or drifts. Use a sharper, upright photo, and make sure both performers take up a similar amount of their half of the frame.

The clip is landscape. It shouldn't be – the generator always builds a vertical 9:16 frame. If you downloaded an older clip, make a new one.

The prompt was refused. Photos and prompts of real celebrities, sexual content and graphic violence are not allowed. Credits are not used for refused prompts.

FAQ

Is it free? Signing in gives free credits that cover one clip. After that, each 5-second clip costs 10 credits.

Do I need Higgsfield or another app? No. Some guides use motion-transfer apps that need a source video; this method only needs two photos. See the Higgsfield route compared if you want both options.

Can I make it longer than 5 seconds? Make two clips and join them in CapCut or the TikTok editor.