The Raindance AI trend is one photo of you turned into a music-video shot on a golden-hour pier, singing Dave and Tems' "Raindance" to the lens — and there are four ways to make it, but only one builds the whole scene from a single photo with nothing to download. The CapCut template (capcut.com/template-detail/raindance-tems) alone showed 704.46K uses on 1 October 2026, and it works on the clips or photos you drop into it. Of the AI routes, one asks for two photos and one asks for the original music video so it can swap your face into it.
What the Raindance AI trend is: your photo, a hard cut, then you on a sunset pier or dock singing slowly into the camera, posted with the song "Raindance".
The four ways: a CapCut template, a two-photo app template, a face swap over the original video, or a one-photo generator that builds the pier from scratch.
Free route: the Raindance AI trend generator on Kavel — one photo, six ready-made scenes, and new accounts get 20 free credits (a 4-second clip costs 10).
The song is not in the AI clip. Add "Raindance" from TikTok's sound library when you post.
What is the Raindance AI trend?
The Raindance AI trend is a TikTok edit built on the music video for "Raindance" by Dave and Tems. In the AI version, people take an ordinary photo of themselves, a friend, a parent or a pet, and turn it into a shot that looks lifted from the video: a wooden pier or dock above calm sea, low golden sun, a slow camera push-in, and the subject singing straight to the lens. Duo versions put two people on the dock, one sitting and one singing. It is not the Raindance Film Festival's AI filmmaking course, which shares the name and shows up in the same searches. It landed on the same feeds as the Hotel Lobby duo clip and the Pata Chalega car-driving video, and it works the same way: one photo, one cut.
On the UK Official Singles Chart, "Raindance" by Dave and Tems first charted on 6 November 2025, peaked at number 1 and spent 13 weeks at number 1 (Official Charts Company, read 2026-10-01).
One thing trips people up: searching "rain dance AI" also returns a different effect. Two template sites, seedance2-5.im and clipdance.ai, list a "Rain Dance" template that renders a couple dancing in heavy night rain on a city street, with lifts and spins (read 2026-10-01). It is not the Raindance AI trend: no pier, no sea, no singing to the camera.
4 ways to do the Raindance AI trend, compared
| Method | What you upload | Clip length | Price as listed | Face swap over the original video? | Read |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CapCut template "raindance (tems)" | Your clips or photos into the template | 0:16, 9:16 | Not shown on the template page; 704.46K uses | No swap | 2026-10-01 |
| Nsketch "Rain Dance" motion-control app (nsketch.ai/apps/motion-control/raindance) | Two photos: one person sitting on the dock, one who sings | 15 seconds | 250 credits per run | No swap | 2026-10-01 |
| Seedance 2.5 video-to-video swap | The original music video + your photo | Same as the clip you upload | Depends on the tool | Swaps your face into the original | 2026-09-30 |
| Kavel Raindance AI trend page | One photo | 4–15 s picker | 10 credits for 4 s at 480p; 20 free credits on sign-up | No swap | 2026-10-01 |
The CapCut template
The CapCut template is the most used route by a distance. It is a template rather than an AI generator, so what you get depends on the clips you drop into it.
Nsketch's two-photo template
Nsketch is the only route we found built for the duo version: it asks for the person sitting on the dock and the person who sings as two separate uploads.
The face swap route
The face swap route is the one behind the only published Seedance 2.5 prompt we found: a creator on X who made the trend shared it on 30 September 2026: "Replace the main subject in @ video with the subject from @ image… Preserve the background, camera motion, timing, and lighting from @ video." That means downloading the original music video first and pasting someone else's footage under your face.
The one-photo route
The one-photo route skips the footage entirely: your photo is the first frame, and the pier, the light and the performance are generated around you.
How to do the Raindance AI trend from one photo, for free
- Open the Raindance AI trend generator. It opens on image-to-video with MiniMax H3 Fast, the site's free engine.
- Upload one clear photo. A selfie or a waist-up shot both work. The photo is the opening second of the clip, so wherever you took it is where the video starts before the cut.
- Keep the default or tap a template. Six Raindance AI video scenes are ready: the pier edge at sunset, the end of the pier in warm rain, the beach with a pet, a dock close-up, waist-deep in the sea, and blue hour with rain in the lamplight.
- Generate, download, post. New accounts get 20 free credits; a 4-second clip at 480p costs 10. Longer clips and credit packs are on the pricing page.
Made on Kavel from one sidewalk photo, one run on MiniMax H3 Fast.
The Raindance AI trend prompt (copy it)
This is the exact Raindance AI prompt behind the pier-edge clip above. We ran it on MiniMax H3 Fast with the photo as the first frame:
The person in the photo, same face, hair and outfit. First second: exactly as in the photo. Hard cut: a cinematic music-video shot of the same person sitting at the very edge of an old wooden pier above calm open sea at golden hour, legs over the water, warm low sun behind them and soft lens flare. The camera slowly pushes in from a low angle as they look straight into the lens and sing softly, a light sea breeze moving their hair, then they turn their head toward the horizon and back to the lens. Slow, moody, romantic pacing, shallow depth of field, film grain, 35mm music-video look. No other people, no text, no captions, no logos, no watermark.
What each part does:
- "First second: exactly as in the photo" keeps your original snapshot as the opening, which is the before-and-after the trend is built on.
- "Hard cut" asks for the jump to the pier instead of a slow morph.
- "No other people" keeps strangers from wandering onto the pier behind you.
For the rain version, swap the scene for "standing alone at the end of a long wooden pier at dusk while a light warm rain falls" and end with "they close their eyes and tilt their face up into the rain".
Best photo for the Raindance AI trend, and fixing common problems
We made the six demo clips on the Kavel page one run at a time on MiniMax H3 Fast: seven runs for six clips, at 768p and 10 seconds, which costs 45 credits a clip (10 seconds at 480p costs 25). What we saw:
| What happened | In our runs | Fix |
|---|---|---|
| Selfie vs waist-up photo | Both worked; the cafe selfie became the waist-deep sea shot | Use whichever you have, face sharp and unobstructed |
| Cross-fade instead of a hard cut | 2 of 6 clips blended the photo into the pier over about a second | Keep "Hard cut" in the prompt; it still reads as the trend |
| A pet in the photo | The cat stayed with its owner and looked up at her | Put the pet in the same photo |
Raindance AI trend on TikTok: adding the song and posting
The generated Raindance AI video comes back with its own engine sound, not the song. To post it as the Raindance AI trend on TikTok:
- Download the clip — it is already vertical.
- Upload it on TikTok and search "Raindance" by Dave and Tems in the sound picker.
- Start the song near the line you want under the singing shot, and turn the original sound down.
- Caption it like the trend does: who is on the pier, and why they have no business being that serious.
From one front-camera cafe selfie: already vertical, ready for the TikTok sound picker.
If you are already editing in CapCut, the "raindance (tems)" template is the shortcut for timing the cut to the song. Want to mouth the actual lyrics instead of a generic sing-along? AI lip sync matches your photo's lips to an audio track you upload.
Duet version: two people on the pier
The duo version is the one with someone sitting on the dock while the other sings. Two ways exist today:
- Nsketch's two-photo template, which takes the sitting person and the singing person as separate uploads (15 seconds, 250 credits as listed on 2026-10-01).
- Two one-photo clips cut together: make one Raindance AI clip for each person and trade lines in the edit. It takes two runs, but each run needs only one photo.
- A two-person music-video shot from two photos already exists on Kavel for a different song: the Hotel Lobby AI video puts two uploads under one mic.
FAQ
What is the Raindance?
"Raindance" is a song by Dave and Tems, a UK number 1 that spent 13 weeks at the top of the Official Singles Chart. The Raindance AI trend sets that song under a clip of you singing on a golden-hour pier, made from one photo.
How do I do the AI dance trend?
Upload one photo to the Raindance AI trend generator, keep the pier prompt or tap a template, and generate. New accounts get 20 free credits and a 4-second clip on the free engine costs 10, so the first clips cost nothing. You never need the original music video: the whole pier scene is generated around your photo.
How do you do the AI dance on TikTok?
For this trend there is barely any dancing: it is a slow sing-to-camera shot. Make the clip from your photo, then add the song in TikTok's sound picker. If you want full choreography instead, the AI dance video generator is built for that.
Is there a Raindance trend dance?
Not really. The posts that carry the sound are performances, not routines: one person or two on a dock, singing to the lens. If you want movement, change one line of the prompt to a slow sway on the pier.
One CapCut template already shows 704.46K uses for the Raindance AI trend. If you want the pier without the footage, put yourself on it from one photo.
