What is Hotel Lobby AI?
Hotel Lobby AI is our name for a specific look: a warm, orange-toned hotel lobby, a single locked-off camera, and two people trading verses as if the take might be the only one they get. It borrows the mood of lobby freestyle clips that have spread across social feeds, but every frame is an original AI render. Your two photos become the performers, our system writes a rap around your topic, generates a vocal and beat, and animates both faces so the mouths follow the words.
It is a style, not a copy. You will not find real artists, recognizable songs, or borrowed melodies here. That is deliberate: it keeps the results safe to post, and it means the video is about you and your friend rather than about someone else's catalog.
How to make one in under two minutes
- Choose two photos. Each face should fill a fair part of the frame, look toward the camera, and be evenly lit. If you only have one group photo, switch the tool to the single-photo mode.
- Confirm the Hotel Lobby stage. It is the default on this page, so you can leave it alone.
- Write a topic in a few words, such as "Sam and Priya, roommates for six years, fighting about dishes". Specifics make funnier lyrics than generic prompts.
- Pick a language. English is the default, and you can also try Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, or Chinese.
- Tick the permission box and generate. Your scene preview appears on its own page while the video renders, and you can download the finished clip straight away.
Photo tips that change the result
The animation can only work with what your photo shows, so a strong input pays off. Use a recent picture where the person's whole face is visible, with no sunglasses, heavy shadows, or hands covering the mouth. Neutral or slightly smiling expressions animate more naturally than wide laughs, because the model has room to move the lips.
Avoid group crops where a face is smaller than a thumbnail. If you must use one photo of two people, choose a shot where both are close to the camera and roughly at the same height. Keep the background simple; the stage will replace it anyway.
- Daylight from a window beats a phone flash every time.
- Hold the phone at eye level to avoid distorted chins and foreheads.
- Take a fresh selfie if the old one is blurry; sharp photos yield sharper lip-sync.
- Do not upload someone else's photo without their permission.
Prompt ideas that write better bars
Think of the topic box as a tiny briefing for a ghostwriter. Give names, a relationship, a place, and one embarrassing detail. Compare "a rap about friends" with "Diego and Marcus, best friends since sixth grade, still arguing about who ate the last empanada". The second gives the lyricist hooks to build rhymes on.
- Anniversary: "Five years, one terrible camping trip, and the best decision we ever made."
- Farewell: "Ravi is leaving the team, and here is everything we will miss, including his loud keyboard."
- Roast: "Dana is always ten minutes late but somehow always the funniest person in the room."
- Hype: "Two roommates getting ready to graduate and never doing dishes again."
Using and sharing your video responsibly
Only upload photos of people who have agreed to appear. Do not make videos meant to deceive, harass, or impersonate anyone, and do not present the result as an official release by any artist or brand. Because the piece is original AI content, it is best shared as what it is: a fun, personal clip. A short caption such as "made with AI" keeps everyone on the same page.
Your photos are used only to render your video. They are not published or sold, and you can delete your videos from your dashboard whenever you like.