How to Put Your AI Influencer Into a Dance Trend

A dance trend is a ready-made format: a song, a set of moves, a camera that already works. With Recast you can put your AI influencer into one in a few minutes, keeping every step and camera move of the original and swapping the dancer for your character. This guide covers the steps, the clips that work best, what to do about the music, and what it costs.

Original

Recast with @barry

How does Recast turn a dance clip into your influencer's dance?

Recast reads how the dancer moves with a depth map and a face mesh, and takes a picture of the set with the people removed. Then it builds the clip again with your character in the dancer's place, frame by frame, on the original camera path. Faces, hair and the look come from your character's pictures; the moves and the timing come from the clip.

The source can be up to a minute long, from a TikTok, Reel, Short, Facebook or X link or your own file; you trim it to the 4 to 30 seconds you want. Anyone in the clip you don't cast is replaced by a different, ordinary person.

How do you put your AI influencer into a dance trend, step by step?

1. Find the dance you want and copy its link, or download your own clip.
2. Open Recast, paste the link, and trim to the part with the best moves.
3. In the Cast tab, pick your character: one of BudgetPixel's 37 ready-made AI influencers or your own.
4. In the Direction, name the character's signature look, such as "Barry wears his signature look: gold aviator sunglasses, a yellow travel neck pillow and a faded oversized purple hoodie", and any setting change you want.
5. Choose the sound: keep the clip's own, upload a track you own (MP3 or WAV up to 15 MB), or ask for a new sound in the Direction.
6. Start with a 480p draft. If the moves and the face look right, press Make it HD for the same video in 1080p.

What makes a dance recast look right?

• One clear dancer. The lead holds the likeness best; a second person comes out looser.
• The whole body in frame. Recast needs to see the moves to copy them; cropped hands and feet come back cropped.
• A clean clip. Captions, stickers and on-screen text end up in the depth map, so pick a clip without them.
• 720p or sharper. Small, low-resolution clips give the model less to work with.
• A look that survives a new outfit. Characters with distinctive hair, hats, moustaches or age stay recognisable in any clothes.
• A body type that fits. The original dancer's build tends to carry over, so cast a character who suits the dancer.
• Take the occasional block in stride. The video model's own copyright check can refuse a clip; a refused recast costs nothing.
• Expect a new crowd. Anyone you don't cast, like a dancer in the background, comes back as a different person; the set stays.

Can you use the trend's song?

Recast keeps the clip's own sound by default, back on in sync with the moves. That is fine for a personal post where the song came with the platform. A business is different: TikTok's Commercial Music Library says businesses cannot use its general music library for commercial use, which includes ads and branded content. Its Commercial Music Library has about a million pre-cleared songs that businesses can use for free.

The safer route for a brand is music you have the rights to: a track from TikTok's Commercial Music Library, one you licensed, or an original. You can make an original track on BudgetPixel:

Then upload it as the recast's own audio. Recast plays your track from its first second, so trim it to start on its strongest bar; in the Barry clip above, the 7 seconds come from the middle of the track, lined up so the beats land on the moves. Before using a generated track in an ad, read its model page: the music model's provider sets the commercial terms, so don't assume blanket rights.

What does an AI dance video cost?

You pay only when the video is ready; a failed or refused recast costs nothing. The 7-second Barry recast above cost 1,883 credits as a 480p draft and 9,214 for the HD version on an Ultra plan, which takes 10% off Seedance; the draft took about 4 minutes and the HD version about 1. The song cost 96 credits. Dollar amounts use the credit-pack rate of 1,000 credits per $1. Prices verified October 2026; see the pricing page.

Should you use Recast or Motion Control?

Do you need to label an AI dance video?

Yes, on the main platforms. TikTok's ad policy names "showing the primary subject doing something they didn't actually do, like dancing" as AI content that must carry its AI label or a clear disclaimer. YouTube asks creators to disclose realistic AI-generated scenes. Turn the label on when you post; it costs nothing and keeps the video up.