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We believe you shouldn’t have to “learn how to prompt” to create images. It should be easy to try things out, iterate, refine and remix ideas visually. Like you’d do with a friend. So we’re trying something new!

Whisk is labs.google/fx’s latest generative imagery experiment, focusing on fast visual ideation without the need to deeply understand prompting!

Just throw in a couple of images for light guidance (scene, subjects, styles) and Whisk will try to capture their essence to suggest some images for you to keep ideating on.

Behind the scenes, the Gemini model automatically writes a detailed caption of your images. It then feeds those descriptions into Google’s latest image generation model, Imagen 3.

Whether it’s turning a drawing into a plushie, creating an epic holiday card, or visualizing the beginning of a story… We’re excited to see where Whisk takes you.

Whisk Animate is a new feature for Google One AI Premium subscribers in supported countries that lets you transform generated images into short videos with Veo 2. Subscribers have the ability to generate 100 videos a month – credits do not accumulate.

- Prepare
  Bring in visual elements for Whisk to analyze and combine. Drag and drop an image, upload it from a folder. You can also create a simple reference from a text prompt, … or have us seed a couple ideas by selecting “inspire me” or using the “roll the dice” features.
  Behind the scenes: these assets go through Gemini’s visual understanding for captioning. These text descriptions are what Whisk uses. Click edit to see if we got it right and refine as needed!
- Explore
  Time to mix things up! You can select assets (1 or more subjects, 1 scene, 1 style) and put them to work. The system will bring those together in creative remixes.
  See what Whisk comes up with, and keep riffing! You can also throw in some light guidance to play around with details and keep your imagination going.
  “Make the characters eat ice-cream”
  “The dinosaur and the cat are high fiving!”
  “Make sure the enamel pin is round.”
  “Adjust the color scheme to follow a pastel palette”
  Behind the scenes: Gemini composes prompts from the captions + your guidance to create the prompt for you. Click edit to see what it’s been whispering to Imagen 3.
- Refine
  See an image you like but maybe that hat should be blue? Or is it missing a sunset in the background? Enter refine mode and ask for smaller to medium changes that stay directionally close to the original.
  Behind the scenes: Gemini updates the prompt based on your guidance! We still regenerate all the pixels from that prompt, but ask the model to stay close.
- Diagnose
  Let’s be honest, things might go in wild directions! Maybe some elements were dropped? Maybe that exact thing you’re looking for just doesn’t match?
  At any stage above you can diagnose the underlying prompts by clicking the prompt button / icon and edit them, add in those critical details manually and ask the model to generate more options. Ultimately, you’re in control :-)
- Subject
  That’s what the image is about! Character, objects or a combination of such. An old rotary phone! A cool chair! A cardboard movie display. A mysterious renaissance vampire. You can also throw yourself in as a directional reference and see what comes out :-)
- Scene
  Where the subjects will show up. A fashion runway? A pop up holiday card? You can bring characters in the scene alongside the ones already there; or maybe you can swap them in? Worth trying out.
- Style
  Maybe you want to throw more guidance on the aesthetic, material or technique used to represent the above. Style is for that. Feel free to specify what you care about most in the main prompt box to reinforce that guidance.
You can refer to them in natural language when you add more details (e.g. “our subjects having a birthday dinner”), and Whisk will try to weave that in.
In order to remix elements from different images together, we first need to develop an understanding of each image you reference. This is where Gemini’s multi-modal understanding comes in! When you upload an image, Whisk uses Gemini to visually understand those images and generate text descriptions (or captions) about them. Or in other words, translate that image to text (I2T). These descriptions are meant to capture the essence of your references, not to replicate the original, to facilitate remixing ideas.
These captions are then used to write a detailed prompt to generate an image based on your guidance using our latest and most powerful image generation model, Imagen 3. Or in other words, translating text back to image (T2I).

Whisk Animate lets you transform generated images into short videos with Veo 2 by letting you specify motion guidance for your Whisk generated images.
This process above helps Whisk better understand and represent the ideas you’re forming, and iterate while conversing with you.
Outputs will only resemble your uploads, not be an exact copy. In our experiment, Whisk extracts only a few key characteristics from the image you provide to guide the model. Our goal is not to create an exact replica, but rather to capture the essence of the subject.
Therefore, the generated image may differ in appearance. For example, the generated subject might be of a different height, weight, or have a different hairstyle or skin tone. We understand that these features may be crucial to the unique identity of your character. To achieve a result closer to your vision, we encourage you to provide more detailed prompts and refine your instructions.
You can use the top right menu to send us feedback.
Whisk Animate is now available to Google One AI Premium subscribers for 100 video generations per month in the following countries: American Samoa, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Bahamas, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Côte d'Ivoire, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, Gabon, Ghana, Guam, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritius, Mexico, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Northern Mariana Islands, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Türkiye, U.S. Virgin Islands, Uganda, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. This lets you provide motion guidance to your Whisk image creations, making them come to life!