In July 2025 I tried a few AI effects proposed by Pollo.ai. As in my Veo 3 experiments, I provide a starting image and the AI does the rest (no need to provide a prompt). There are about 50 effects on offer, and they are cheap to use. They generate silent videos in roughly 720p resolution, about 5 seconds long.
Here below is another set. This time I tried to apply CapCut's 4k filter to the video but it still rendered at 1080p - am I doing something wrong? Note that the various Pollo special effects each seem to generate videos with different aspect ratios so it's not possible to string them together without getting black bands in the video sometimes. Sorry if you got shot at - nothing personal! The video includes clips of people getting hugged by tigers - I also made one in Veo 3 of myself getting hugged by a lioness and another of myself being chased by a grizzly bear. Find them on this page.