Wan 2.6 Reference to Video

Wan 2.6 Reference to Video creates new video around referenced people, characters, pets, or objects, using image or video material to retain recognizable appearance and, when present, vocal character. It is built for interactions involving more than one referenced subject rather than simple first-frame animation.

Assign each reference a clear role in the prompt and describe how the characters interact, where the scene occurs, what they say or do, and how the camera follows them. This model is especially useful for recurring casts, branded mascots, dialogue scenes, and narrative content that depends on stable identity across shots.

Highlights

• Multi-character reference synthesis. Places several referenced protagonists into one generated interaction while keeping them distinguishable.
• Appearance and voice carryover. Extracts visual identity and available vocal traits from reference media for the new performance.
• Narrative shot construction. Supports directed scene progression instead of limiting the output to a single static action.
• Cross-modal character grounding. Uses both image and video references to anchor people, cartoons, animals, or props in the generated world.

Pricing

When to Use

Prompt Guide

Describe the result as a shot or design brief: identify subjects and references, state the action or transformation, specify environment and composition, then add camera behavior, lighting, pacing, style, sound, and preservation constraints where relevant. Use exact reference identifiers exposed by the local schema.

{
  "duration": 5,
  "prompt": "Video1 holds Image2 and plays a soothing country folk song on the chair from Image3, saying: 'The sunshine is so nice today.' Image1 holds a bouquet of sunflowers, walks past Video1, places the flowers on the table next to Video1, and says: 'That sounds lovely, could you sing it again?'",
  "resolution": "720p",
  "videos": [
    "https://example.com/reference.mp4"
  ]
}

Technical Specs

Related Models

• alibaba/wan/2.6/reference-to-video/flash — Compare this concrete local family route.
• alibaba/wan/2.6 — Compare this concrete local family route.
• alibaba/wan/2.6/edit — Compare this concrete local family route.