Sometimes we test AI
tools that surprise us, sometimes tools that impress us — and sometimes tools
that leave us speechless in a Dali-but-make-it-video kind of way.
This week, we went realism-hunting with Pollo
AI, a tool that
promises image-to-video magic.
Spoiler: the journey
was… entertaining. And frustrating.
What Pollo AI Claims to Do
- Turn any photo into a short realistic
video
- Add motion, camera sway, and micro-details
- Animate objects naturally
- Keep lighting and textures believable
And honestly — for
stylized, dreamy, or abstract videos, Pollo AI is great.
But we wanted to push it: What happens when you ask it to animate something
realistically?
🧪 Our Test — “Offer Us the Drink, Please”
We uploaded a photo
of hands holding a tray with drinks, and gave Pollo this prompt:
“Transform this image into a realistic
lifestyle clip. Add a natural forward movement of the hands, as if they are
gently offering us a drink.
Soft ambient light, slight tilt of the tray as the person adjusts their grip.
Keep all motion subtle and realistic — nothing exaggerated.
Maintain accurate skin tones, glass reflections, and overall transparency.”
Simple, clear,
grounded in reality.
🔹 Attempt #1 — “Okay… but too shy”
The movement was there
— technically — but so subtle we nearly missed it.
More “micro vibration” than “offering us a drink.”
Not bad, just extremely
timid.
🔹 Attempt #2 — “The runaway glass”
A masterpiece of
chaos.
The tray stayed perfectly still… while the glass slid across it like it
was late for a meeting.
Physics? Zero.
Comedy? Ten out of ten.
🔹 Attempt #3 — Improving the prompt
We refined the
wording, clarified the motion — and Pollo delivered…
the exact same result as Attempt #1.
Consistency is
important.
Just not this kind of consistency.
🔹 Attempt #4 — Removing “nothing exaggerated”
from the prompt
And that’s when we
entered the Dali dimension.
The tray suddenly
stretched, bent, elongated — not unlike a surrealist painting melting over a
table edge. It was artistic, yes. Realistic? Absolutely not. Useful? Not unless
we’re making a museum piece.
🧠 Final Thoughts
When it comes to
generating non-realistic, dreamy, stylized motion — Pollo AI shines.
But when you try to get actual realism, the results are unpredictable
enough to feel like a creative lottery ticket.
Finding a truly
reliable image-to-realistic-video AI tool is still a challenge.
For now, it seems you can get fantastic results — as long as you’re not too
picky or too precise.
We’re giving Pollo AI 2.5
on our LMAI scale — impressive potential, inconsistent realism.
And now, if you’ll
excuse us —
we’re off to drink the lemonade ourselves since the tray clearly won’t come to
us. 🍋
