Turn photos and a name into a personalized AI birthday video — guide skill for greetings & celebrations

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A birthday video that is theirs: a song that sings the name, their photo blowing out the candles, a retro camcorder tape, then-and-now; tested on varg.

What it does

Turns a name, an age and a few photos into a personalized birthday video. It asks the five questions that make it personal (the name and how it sounds, the age, three true details, the photos and consent, where it plays), picks one of the formats that spread on X in 2026 (the song with the name, the candle moment, the retro camcorder tape, then-and-now, the trailer of their life, self-insert spectacles, milestone posters, the pet’s birthday, anniversaries), makes the key still first with GPT Image 2.5 (it spells the name on the cake), animates it with Seedance 2.5 or Wan 3, writes original lyrics and makes the song on ElevenLabs Music, finds the sung name by transcript and exports one file for WhatsApp, iMessage, a story or the TV at the party with scripts/assemble.sh. References: formats, the song, 27 looks.

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Install

Models it drives: gpt_image_2_5, seedance_2_5, wan_3, eleven_music_v2_5, lyria_3_5, whisper_large_v3

Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/files/72c55813-c0fa-4cf2-9f64-ec4f7ed0e7ae/file_7e6d05077855.mp4 — example (credit: varg)

How-to tutorials that use it

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