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Hailuo 02 Prompts

MiniMax's video model where physics is the star — weight, fluids, and collisions that move the way the real world does.

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CinematicVFX
Ultra-realistic behind-the-scenes phone footage inside a giant VFX water-tank studio. One single continuous unbroken wide shot, no cuts, no close-ups, no coverage. A miniature mountain city and long airport runway sit inside the tank beneath a huge practical concrete dam, surrounded by a green-screen wall with tracking markers, overhead rigging, studio lights, a Jimmy Jib, side camera trolleys on tracks, monitors, cables, hydraulic dam rigs, water pumps, breakaway concrete sections, and crew members in FX-studio shirts filming the setup. The handheld phone camera starts from an elevated side angle, clearly showing the runway, miniature city, reservoir, dam wall, water tank, practical-effects machinery, and crew. Someone off-camera shouts, “Action!” A cargo aircraft begins accelerating down the runway. At the exact same moment, a thin crack appears across the centre of the dam behind the city. The phone camera stays wide and smoothly pans with the aircraft. The crack spreads rapidly through the concrete. Water begins spraying through small fractures, then bursts through in powerful jets. Warning lights flash around the miniature city as buildings, bridges, and vehicles shake. Large sections of the dam buckle outward. Concrete blocks break loose and tumble into the city while water pressure tears open the central wall. A massive surge erupts through the breach, carrying broken concrete, trees, vehicles, and debris toward the airport. The aircraft keeps accelerating as the flood reaches the city streets. Buildings are struck and collapse in sequence. Bridges twist away, rooftops tear loose, and miniature vehicles are swept into the water. The surge reaches the airport perimeter. Hangars are crushed, runway lights disappear beneath the flood, and water races across the tarmac behind the aircraft. Crew members retreat from the tank edge while camera operators, trolley units, and the Jimmy Jib continue filming. At the last possible second, the aircraft lifts off as the flood overwhelms the final runway section. A section of concrete barrier slams through the tarmac beneath its tail, sending water, debris, and shattered miniature structures into the air. The aircraft climbs, then banks above the drowned city while the remaining dam wall collapses completely. Another violent wave surges through the streets, carrying rooftops, vehicles, trees, and broken structures toward the foreground. Keep the behind-the-scenes environment visible throughout: green screen, tracking markers, tank walls, hydraulic rigs, water pumps, cables, crew reactions, cameras, monitors, miniature construction, and practical flood machinery. End while the aircraft is still banking above the submerged city, the dam continues collapsing, and water is actively tearing through the airport below. Sound: off-camera “Action!”, deep concrete groans, aircraft engine roar, crew chatter, trolley wheels, cracking dam wall, pressurised water jets, collapsing buildings, rushing floodwater, debris impacts, alarms, spray, metal tearing, and startled shouting.
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Young woman (exact face/hair from Image1, never alter identity or hairstyle) already seated at window seat in commercial airplane cabin, wearing light beige cardigan over white top with small crossbody bag on lap. Locked camera: low, slightly wide-angle, waist-up + window, never moves/pans/zooms/reframes. Hard cuts only, identical framing throughout: 1. Excited smile to camera, glances out window at airport vehicles → “Finally going to Japan!” 2. Slides phone into seat pocket, clicks seatbelt (chime), aircraft pushes back/taxis → grins “Now we’re really taking off.” 3. Takeoff: runway streaks, drops into clouds/blue sky, engine roar, air vent blows hair strand; she brushes it, laughs “Wow!” 4. Cruise above clouds; Mount Fuji appears; eyes widen, points, “It’s Mount Fuji!”, holds phone to window. 5. Opens Japanese bento, eats while glancing at Fuji → “Eating with this view makes it even better.” 6. Descent: seatbelt sign dings, cityscape below; packs meal, adjusts cardigan → “We’ll be landing soon.” 7. Landed Japanese airport: engines wind down, bins open; picks bag, leans in, waves “Arrived in Japan! See you all later.”, reaches toward lens → black. Perfect clothing/continuity, realistic economy window-seat interior. Photoreal live-action, natural skin texture, cabin lighting, authentic aircraft details. Diegetic sound only (no music): cabin ambience, engines, chimes, Korean lip-synced speech. No beauty filters, text, logos, or camera equipment visible.
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About Hailuo 02

Hailuo 02 is MiniMax's video generation model, and its calling card is physical realism. Where other models chase cinematic gloss or dialogue, Hailuo pours its capacity into making matter behave: bodies carry believable weight, liquids pour and splash with real viscosity, fabric settles, and collisions transfer momentum instead of passing through.

That focus shows most in shots other models quietly fail: an athlete landing a jump where you feel the impact absorb through the knees, honey ribboning off a spoon, a stack of boxes toppling with each box tumbling on its own arc. When the point of your clip is that something physical happens — and looks true — Hailuo is the specialist.

The catch is that physics only reads as real when the prompt supplies the physical facts. A model can't infer weight from the word "box"; it can from "a waterlogged cardboard box that sags as he lifts it". The gallery below collects tested Hailuo prompts with real outputs, so you can see exactly how much physical detail a convincing clip takes.

How to write Hailuo 02 prompts

  1. 1Name the forces at play — weight, momentum, drag, recoil: "the sledgehammer arcs down heavily, and the strike jolts back through his arms". Force words are Hailuo's native vocabulary.
  2. 2Specify material properties, not just objects: "thick honey", "brittle dry clay", "sodden wool coat". Viscosity, stiffness, and wetness are what the simulation feeds on.
  3. 3Build the shot around one cause-and-effect moment: an impact, a pour, a collapse. State the trigger and the consequence — "the shelf gives way, and jars shatter across the tiles".
  4. 4Ask for the secondary motion explicitly — hair swinging after a stop, water still sloshing after the jug lands, dust drifting after the fall. Follow-through is where realism is won.
  5. 5Keep the clip to one physical event. A single believable collapse beats three stacked stunts that each get a third of the physics budget.
  6. 6Describe mass through behavior rather than numbers: "so heavy she leans back to counterbalance" tells the model more than any weight figure would.

Frequently asked questions

What is Hailuo 02 best at?

Physical realism — clips where weight, fluids, cloth, and collisions behave like the real world. It is the strongest pick when the point of your shot is a physical event: an impact, a pour, a fall, an athletic movement that has to feel like it has mass behind it.

How do I write Hailuo 02 prompts for realistic motion?

Give the model physical facts: material properties, forces, and one clear cause-and-effect. Describe how heavy things are through behavior, and ask for the follow-through — splashes, swaying, settling. The tested prompts on this page show working examples of that level of detail.

Can Hailuo 02 handle water, fluids, and collisions?

That territory is its specialty. Liquids pour and splash with believable viscosity, and collisions transfer momentum instead of clipping through. The more precisely you describe the material and the force involved, the more convincing the simulation reads.

Where can I use these Hailuo prompts?

Hailuo is available through MiniMax's Hailuo AI platform, with API access for developers via the MiniMax open platform. Copy any prompt from this page, paste it there, and swap in your own materials and physical moment.