Strike A Pole, Designed: Pick the Lamp Post, Set the Hug
Upload two pet photos, design the street and lamp post, then animate from both sitting under the lamp to the final hug.
Last checked 2026-11-03
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Design both pets sitting under a lamp post on your street, then the hug as the last frame, then animate the swing between them.
1First frame · 3→
2Last frame · 3→
3Animate 10 s · 280
Photo 1 · takes the pole
Photo 2 · cuts in
Your street · optional
9:16 vertical · first frame, then last frame, then the clip between them
Next: last frame 3 credits, then animate 10 s · 280 credits.
Joining the trend is free; making it on Lovart ME uses credits from packs starting at $9.90 for 250 credits. Each button shows its exact cost before you generate.
SAMPLE · INPUT → RESULT
Sample inputs and result from this page. Your result will appear here.
Start with an idea
01 / Samples
Strike a pole frame samples
Each sample shows the two photos, the street set, the first and last frame and the clip, remixed from airapvideo.homes originals with AI pets.
Strike A Pole is a two-pet dance at a lamp post: one stands up, grabs the post and swings round it, the other cuts in, and they end in a hug. The name puns on “strike a pose”. The pets and the woman below are original generated characters, not real ones. Both clips are Lovart ME re-cuts of 10-second Seedance 2.0 Fast originals made on airapvideo.homes, reframed and graded, not mirrored and with no new generation. The street sets, the sitting first frame and the hug were made with GPT Image 2.5 Flare for this page on November 3, 2026.
Dusk cobbles, cat and lab
Photo 1Photo 2→Still→StartEnd
Dusk cobbles, cat and lab
Remixed from an airapvideo.homes clip · Seedance 2.0 Fast
Photos
Two GPT Image 2.5 Flare photos of original pets: a long-haired ginger cat and a black labrador
First frame
GPT Image 2.5 Flare image to image, 9:16: both standing upright on a wet cobblestone path at dusk by a green Victorian lamp post
Master
Seedance 2.0 Fast · 720p · 9:16 · 10 s from the first frame, made on airapvideo.homes
This cut
9.4 s re-cut for Lovart ME: reframed, ice-and-brass grade, not mirrored; zero credits
What happens
The cat grabs the lamp post and swings round it, the lab cuts in at about 4 s, they hold paws face to face and end in a hug
Add both pet photos and one photo of a street or lamp post, and ask for the two pets on the path with the lamp post between them, coats and faces kept.
Your pets
Photo 1 takes the pole, photo 2 cuts in. One pet per photo, whole body in view, eyes open, daylight. A person works too, head to toe, and the pet keeps its real size next to them.
Your street
Add a photo of a lamp post near you, taken at knee height with nobody in it. The set rebuilds that path, post and light. With no street photo, the chip picks one.
Keep the coats
Design the street sends all three to Image to Image and asks for each coat, face and size unchanged, sitting side by side under the lamp. If a coat changed, press Rebuild still.
Dusk Cobbles has a green lamp post and wet stones, Snowy Park a black post in fresh snow, and Neon Alley a pink-lit post between brick walls.
The template clip that started it used a grey day on a red-brick garden path. The three chips here change the light more than the path: warm lantern against a dusk sky, cold blue snow, or pink neon. The street photos below are empty boards; the pets go in when you design the street.
Dusk Cobbles
Wet cobbles, a green Victorian lamp post with a warm lantern, low hedges and an orange-violet sky. The default.
On Video, set both pets sitting under the lamp as the first frame and the hug as the last, and write the swing round the post and the cut-in in between.
First frame: sitting
Both side by side on the path, calm, the post on the left within paw reach of photo 1.
Last frame: the hug
Design the last frame edits that picture: both upright by the post, front legs round each other, cheeks together.
The swing between
Animate it sends both frames to Image to Video, 10 seconds, 9:16, with standing up, the swing, the cut-in and the dance written in order. Seedance 2.5 and Seedance 2.0 Mini land the clip on your last frame; other video models start from the first frame only. The frames below come from Dusk cobbles, cat and lab, a first-frame-only original that starts with both already standing.
0.5 sUp
Both are already on their hind legs by the post, the cat with a paw on it.
2.0 sThe swing
The cat grips the post and swings round it, tail out.
4.0 sThe cut-in
The lab steps in and puts its paws on the cat’s.
8.8 sThe hug
They wrap their front legs round each other, cheek to cheek.
The clip comes with original music. Add a trend sound when you post.
Strike A Pole has a lamp post and two pets who swing, cut in and hug; most AI pet dance templates are one pet doing a set routine with no prop.
Strike A Pole
Most pet dance templates
Prop
A lamp post to grab and swing round
Usually none
How many
Two: one takes the pole, one cuts in
One pet
Moves
Swing, cut-in, face-to-face dance
A set routine copied from a reference dance
Ending
A hug
The routine stops
A prop and a partner
It began as a pet template on two AI video template sites on October 30, 2026, built on a short AI clip of an orange tabby and a calico on a red-brick path between hedges; one site counted 1,488 uses by November 1. The #strikeapole tag itself had only two older, unrelated videos. Counts are as recorded on peer template pages.
Solo routines
General pet dance generators copy one routine onto one pet. Here the joke is two animals taking a duet seriously, so the second photo matters as much as the first.
Yes. Add a photo of a street or lamp post next to the two photos. Design the street rebuilds its path, post and light; with no street photo, the chip you pick sets the place.
What goes in the first and last frame?
First both pets sitting side by side under the lamp, calm. Last the hug by the post. The swing round the post and the cut-in go in the prompt between them.
How is it different from other pet dance templates?
It has a prop and two pets who interact: one swings round the lamp post, the other cuts in, and they end in a hug. Most AI pet dances are one pet doing a set routine with no prop.
Which photos work?
One pet per photo, whole body in view, eyes open, in daylight. A cat and a dog can dance together; you and your pet works too, with the pet at its real size.
Where did it start?
As a pet template on AI video template sites on October 30, 2026, built on a short AI clip of two cats on a red-brick garden path.
To add a caption, download the hug frame and type it in PhotoCraft, free in the browser.
Lovart ME is an independent site and is not affiliated with TikTok, MakeViral or Starrd. Sample pets and people are original generated characters; the music is original.
