Make your own animated miniatures

By EngineAI Team | Published on September 25, 2025 | Updated on December 19, 2025
Make your own animated miniatures
This lesson will show you how to use Google Gemini's Nano Banana tool to make a miniature figurine of yourself or a particular product, then use Luma Dream Machine to animate it to produce visually appealing films for marketing or social media. In detail: To activate the Nano Banana tool, navigate to Google Gemini, select "Create images," and then Make use of this prompt: "Ask me to submit a picture first, and then make a commercially available, 1/7th scale miniature of the characters in the image in a realistic setting. On a computer desk with a clear acrylic base and a toy packaging box, the figurine is set up. When asked, upload your reference image, and Gemini will create your miniature scene complete with a desk, monitor, and high-end packaging. Bring the produced image to Luma Labs, make a "New Board," and use prompts such as "This figurine's front camera view" to animate it. After throwing the phone up like a serve, he smashes it in the direction of the camera. For the finest effects, be explicit about subject movements (which hand performs what, timing), tone, and camera angles (front view, close-up, dolly-in).