Here's a small workflow from LoRA Pilot, the open-source image and video workspace I build. The example starts with a robot in an observatory and uses that image as the first frame of a video. Start with a reference you're happy with. Fix the composition and obvious image problems before asking the video model to animate them. Keep the first motion request modest: a slow camera move and a small head movement. You want a baseline you can judge. Asking for a dramatic orbit, walking, gestures and changing light all at once gives you a lot to untangle. Watch the entire result. Check the feet, hands, telescope and background as the camera moves. A lovely opening frame can still turn into five seconds of furniture having an identity crisis. Save the reference, prompt, model, seed and workflow with the clip. Change one thing for the next attempt, such as camera direction, so the comparison tells you something. Keeping the seed fixed helps compare attempts, but doesn't guarantee identical behaviour when other settings change. The demo uses ComfyUI inside LoRA Pilot and shows the controls for dimensions, frame count and sampling. Image-to-video starts around 1:14. LoRA Pilot itself is free. You'll need suitable hardware or paid GPU time, and a cloud machine keeps costing money while idle. https://youtube.com/watch?v=WznvV5Sk2jQ