Full take · 30s
The full take ends with the flare gun
The whole take: the collar tug, the sunset deck, the feet and the gangway kicks, the corridor peek and the stare, then the dance around the quilted cover and the vent that swallows the flare.
24K Magic AI Trend
Your photo dances the Hotel Transylvania 3 cruise deck; a friend’s photo plays the peeker with the flare gun.
Example · Full take · 30s
PNG / JPG / WebP · up to 10 MB · at least 512px on the short side
0/2 photos
Photo 1 dances the deck, photo 2 peeks out of the corridor and fires the flare. One person or pet each, face clear.
Video settings
Your own photos, or a pet’s; anyone else in them should know the video is being made.
What is the 24K Magic AI trend?
The 24K Magic AI trend is a photoreal remake of the Hotel Transylvania 3 cruise-deck scene: a young man pulls at his collar at the camera, dances alone across a sunset deck, and a second man watches from a corridor and later sets off a flare gun that bursts in a vent.
The scene is from Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018), where Dracula dances alone on a cruise deck to Bruno Mars’ “24K Magic”. One upload of it is titled “Looking Good Dracula”, and the film clip was already back in TikTok feeds before any AI version followed it.
The remake keeps the scene whole — the deck, the cuts, the song — and swaps the people for live-action-looking ones. It belongs to the wider run of “live action” AI remakes of animated films, and within three weeks it had a Spanish-language version with a tuxedo dancer, a run of CapCut tutorials and rival AI video sites.
The version everyone shares is generated, not filmed: its caption carries an AI video tool’s hashtag and the post went up without an AI label, which is why the replies argued for days about whether it was CGI. One of the top comments reads “movie name: hotel regular guy”, which is the other half of the joke — the deck gets recognised before it gets doubted.
The month the cruise deck went AI
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation opens in US cinemas.
@jst.daf posts a 54-second cut of the film scene on TikTok: about 6.7 million plays when read on 3 November 2026.
@theraguler posts the 30-second photoreal remake, captioned with an AI video tool’s hashtag: about 5.1 million plays on 3 November 2026.
@niquito89 in Argentina posts a Spanish-language remake with a tuxedo dancer: about 0.9 million plays on 3 November 2026.
Release date from the film’s distributor listings; account names, post dates and play counts read on TikTok on 3 November 2026.
How the 24K Magic AI dance plays out
The whole 30-second take, still by still: every shot in the order it plays, with the second it starts on.
10:00–0:02The collar tug
In a cream doorway he grins at the camera and pulls at the collar of his grey tee with both hands.
20:02–0:03The wide deck
The shot opens out to the sunset deck, white railings and open sea, with the dancer small in the middle of it.
30:03–0:05The feet
A low camera on his shoes as they cross and slide over the planks, dark trousers swinging.
40:05–0:10The gangway kicks
In front of the white staircase he kicks, drops into a lunge and throws his arms out, again and again.
50:10–0:13The corridor peek
A cream corridor with the sea at the end: a bearded man in an olive shirt leans out of a doorway, then steps into the open while the dancer keeps going at the far rail.
60:13–0:19The stare
Up close he rests a hand behind his head and shuts his eyes; a wall box with a red flare gun cuts in, then he grins and pumps his fists.
70:19–0:27The cover
The dancer circles and dips around a white quilted cover, and a bearded head in glasses pushes out of the top of it.
80:27–0:29The flare gun
The sabotage he has been planning: inside the round vent pipe he fires the flare and the flash bursts over him, and the take closes on the empty deck.
What the full take and the short cut each cover
Both cuts come from the same take, with its song, its cuts and its frame, and both use both photos; the resolution is the only thing you choose.
Short cut · 15s
The short cut stops on the stare
The collar tug, the wide deck, the feet, the gangway kicks, the corridor peek and the stare; it stops there, before the quilted cover and the vent.
24K Magic AI remake, AI cover, dance challenge or music video?
Four different things answer to these keywords; only the first one puts your photos inside the Hotel Transylvania 3 cruise scene.
| Compare | 24K Magic AI | 24K Magic AI cover | 24K Magic dance | Official music video |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What it is | Your photos in the deck scene | The song re-sung by AI | A dance people learn | Bruno Mars’ 2016 video |
| Who moves | You, from your own photos | No one; audio only | You, once you learn it | Bruno Mars and his crew |
| Sound | The take’s own 24K Magic | An AI voice on the beat | The original record | The 2016 single |
| What you get | A video of your photos | An audio track | Steps to practise | The video as released |
How do you make the 24K Magic AI dance with your photos?
Two photos fill the two parts, and both cuts use both. Either part can take anyone, and swapping the photos swaps who dances and who peeks.
Photo 1Deck dancer
Face, hair and T-shirt for the dancer who tugs his collar at the door and takes every deck shot.
- Head to waist or full body with the face clear: the first shot closes in on it.
Photo 2Corridor peeker
Face, hair and shirt for the man who leans out of the corridor and stares, and later fires the flare gun in the full take. In that cut this photo is also the head that pops out of the quilted cover, the shot most likely to drift.
- A friend who knows they are in it.
Which photos survive a full-body dance?
Works well
One person, face clear
Head to waist or full body
A pet can dance
Avoid
Two people crowded into one shot
Dark, blurry or filtered
Sunglasses or a hand over the face
From two photos to a posted deck dance
Load the photos and pick a cut
Load both photos, then pick the cut.
Click Generate
The button shows the exact price for the cut and the resolution you pick before you start.
Post it
The download is ready for TikTok, Reels or Shorts as it is; add the AI label when you post.
24K Magic AI prompt tutorial
Two copyable prompts for the same photos: a kling prompt that edits the source clip in place, and a seedance prompt that re-shoots the scene. The 24K Magic AI prompt this page runs is already set, so adding photos is enough.
Kling 4.0 video edit
Prompt length 1188
@Video1 is the source clip: a 16:9 sunset cruise-deck scene with a cream corridor, a white staircase and a white quilted cover. @Image1 and @Image2 are the two people. Replace the dancer, the young man in the dark grey tee who tugs his collar in the doorway, with the person in @Image1 in every shot, including the small figure at the far railing. Replace the bearded man in the olive shirt with @Image2 where he leans out of the corridor, stares and fires the flare; the head that comes out of the quilted cover belongs to the same person, so @Image2 replaces that too.
Keep the performance of @Video1 exactly as it plays: the same body motion, poses and gestures, the collar tug, the kicks, the lunges and the arm thrown out, the same facial expressions, gaze and head turns, and the timing of every beat. Keep the camera position and movement, the framing, every cut, the lighting, the composition and the pacing. Keep the clip's own track and do not add music. Do not re-shoot, reinterpret or add moves, do not change the deck, the corridor or the staircase, and do not add people, text or logos. Each new face stays on its own body and stays stable from the first frame to the last.What the prompt has to say
Describe the clip, not the trend
Say 16:9 cruise deck, cream corridor, white staircase. The model cannot look up the film.
Point at people by what they wear
“The man in the dark grey tee” beats “the dancer” in a shot where the face is tiny.
Keep the song out of the prompt
The edit keeps the clip’s own track; asking for music makes the model add one.
What breaks it
“Change the song to …”
Audio is not a prompt field on an edit, and a re-shoot always writes a new track.
“Make a 15-second version with one person”
Both cuts keep both people; the length comes from the source clip you attach.
“Add the flare gun at the end”
The prop and its beat are already in the clip, and asking again can double it.
One line, two ways
Asks for a trend
Make the viral 24K Magic AI trend with my photo.
Names the person and what stays
Replace the dancer in the dark grey tee with @Image1 in every shot; keep @Video1’s deck, cuts and track.
The model has never seen the trend, the film or the deck. It only knows what the prompt and the source clip show it.
What do the two cuts need, and what do they cost?
What do the two cuts need, and what do they cost?
- Photos
- 2, the same for both cuts
- Photo files
- PNG / JPG / WebP, up to 10 MB, at least 512 px on the short side
- Length
- A 15-second cut or the full 30-second take
- Frame
- 16:9, the frame the take already has; there is no vertical version
- Resolution
- 720p or 1080p; 720p by default
- Sound
- The take’s own 24K Magic track, kept in the result
- Output
- An MP4 with the track in it
- Credits
- Short cut: 564 credits at 720p, 846 at 1080p. Full take: 1127 credits at 720p, 1690 at 1080p
- Visibility
- Public on free accounts, private on paid plans
- If a run fails
- The credits go back to your balance automatically
More trending AI video effects
Every template works the same way: add your photos, press Generate and get a shareable video without writing a prompt.
View all effectsFAQ
About the 24K Magic AI trend: the song, the cast, the two cuts and the other dances
Is the 24K Magic AI dance free?+
No, each run costs credits. A short-cut run and a full-take run are priced separately at the resolution you pick, and the Generate button shows the exact number first. New accounts start with 10 credits.
How is the short cut different from the full take?+
Only in length, and every other setting follows the take. Both cuts use the same two photos with the same song and the same cuts of the scene: the short cut ends on the stare, and the full take carries on around the quilted cover to the vent and the flare.
Does it keep the 24K Magic song?+
Yes, the result carries the take’s own 24K Magic track as it plays in the template. There is no field to swap it, so the song and the picture stay in step.
Is this the Bruno Mars 24K Magic music video?+
No. The music video is from 2016; this is a remake of the cruise-deck scene from Hotel Transylvania 3, danced to the same song.
Is it the same as the Dracula dance?+
No. That trend runs on Tame Impala’s “Dracula” and a different vampire clip; this one is a cruise deck and Bruno Mars.
Do I need a CapCut 24K Magic template?+
No. Photos go in from the browser and the edited video comes back, so there is no app to install and nothing to assemble by hand.
Can my dog or cat do the dance?+
Yes, a pet can take the dancer’s photo. Four legs going through a lunge and a kick is the hardest thing this template tries, so expect stiff or loose frames now and then; keep the whole animal and its face in the shot.
Why does the face look different in the wide shots?+
The deck shots put the dancer far from the lens and the kicks blur him, so the face gets a fraction of the pixels the close-up has. A sharper, evenly lit face photo is what fixes it; the checklist above says what else helps.
What is “Dracula bailando en el crucero”?+
It is the Spanish name for this cruise deck dance; the version posted from Argentina on 31 October is the one that carried it through Latin America.
Is this official, or connected to the film or Bruno Mars?+
No. The template rebuilds a fan remake of the scene, and this page has no connection to Sony Pictures Animation, the Hotel Transylvania films or Bruno Mars.
Who can see my video?+
Videos made on a free account are public. On a paid plan they are private by default.
24K Magic AI
Make your 24K Magic AI cruise deck dance
Pick a cut, add your photos and generate: the deck, the dance and the flare gun are already in the template.