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The Raindance trend drops two people into the lakeside scene of Dave and Tems' "Raindance" video: one sings softly to the camera on a weathered wooden pier in a long, flowing skirt, the other sits at the water's edge and then beside them on the sand. There's no prompt to write and no CapCut template to edit. Add one photo for the singer and one for the partner, and the Raindance AI video generator rebuilds all 8 cuts of the scene with the two of you, then lays the song underneath. It's the quickest way to recreate rain dance AI video posts without filming a thing.
Who sings on the pier in your Raindance AI video?
The scene plays as a slow love song, so the same 15 seconds can be sweet, funny or touching depending on who you cast. Duets are by far the most common way to do the Raindance trend, and when people recreate rain dance AI video duets, most fall into one of these four.
An anniversary post that looks like a real music video
The straight version, and the one the Raindance trend started with: one of you sings on the pier at golden hour while the other looks back from the edge of the water. Couples use it for an anniversary, a birthday, a long-distance "miss you" or a soft launch. Put whoever likes the camera more in Photo 1, since the singer gets every close-up of the Raindance AI video.
Two friends with no business being this serious
The funniest takes on the Raindance trend cast a best friend as the love interest and play it completely straight: soulful eyes, slow sway, the hand to the collarbone. The sand shot, where one of you sings to the sky and the other just stares, does most of the work. Caption it with who you'd never let see this.
Your dog takes the lead vocal
Put your dog or cat in the singer's slot of the Raindance AI video and yourself in the partner's. The pet stays a real animal the whole way through: it sits on the pier, tilts its head over the water and opens and closes its own mouth with the music, while you watch from the edge of the pier. It works the other way round too, with the pet as the quiet partner on the sand.
Grandparents on the pier
Made for the family group chat: Grandma singing softly to the camera, Grandpa leaning in beside her on the sand, both in their own cardigans and glasses. The photos don't have to be recent or taken together, so an old scanned picture of each works, which also makes it a gentle way to remember someone.
How to do the Raindance AI trend
The pier, the lake, the sand, every cut and the song are already in the template, so there's nothing to film or edit. You only decide who sings and who sits beside them, and you recreate rain dance AI video clips in three steps. Your Raindance AI video is made on Seedance 2.5.
Upload the singer and the partner
Photo 1 is the singer, who is in nearly every shot. Photo 2 is the partner, seen on the pier at the start and on the sand later. One person or pet per photo, JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC, up to 30MB each.
Choose 480p, 720p or 1080p
The model, the 15-second length, the 16:9 frame and the song are fixed for you. Only the quality is yours: 500 credits for 480p, 1,200 for 720p, 2,000 for 1080p.
Download the MP4 and post it
In about 10 minutes your Raindance AI video is ready in My Creations with the song already on it. Download it and upload it to TikTok, Reels or Shorts as it is.
The Raindance lakeside scene, cut by cut
Fifteen seconds, eight cuts, two places: a wooden pier over the lake and the sand beside it. The singer carries almost every shot; the partner appears in two. Here is each moment your Raindance AI video recreates, in order.
0–1.5s · The look back from the pier
It opens wide on the pier. Photo 2, the partner, sits at the edge above the water and slowly turns to look back, while the singer stands small at the far end. This is the partner's back and profile, which is why a photo that shows their hair and outfit clearly helps.
1.5–3.8s · First close-up over the water
Cut to the singer, chest-up, with nothing behind them but rippling blue lake. They sway gently and sing straight into the lens. It's the first good look at Photo 1's face, so a sharp, front-facing picture pays off here.
3.8–6.6s · Side by side on the sand
The only shot with both of you close together: the singer leans back on one hand, face tipped up in profile, eyes half closed; the partner turns toward them and just watches. The singer's long skirt spreads over the sand around them, while the partner sits in their own clothes.
6.6–9.3s · A head tilt, then arms to the lens
Back over the water, the singer tilts their head and closes their eyes for a beat. Then a cut to the pier, where they bring their hands together and stretch both arms straight out toward the camera, the moment the Raindance trend is best known for.
9.3–15s · Close-ups and the arm swing
The last three cuts stay on the singer: a finger pointed at the lens, fingertips brought to the collarbone, a tight close-up with head bowed and hands at the neck before looking up, and finally one arm swung loosely out to the side on the pier.
Golden hour, 16:9, the song on top
The scene is rebuilt around your two photos: weathered pier boards, a calm blue lake, pale sand and clear late-afternoon sun. Like the singer in the original video, Photo 1 wears a long, flowing skirt under their own top, in a soft colour picked to go with it. It stays widescreen 16:9 like the original video, runs the first 15 seconds of it, and the Raindance track is laid under the whole clip.
Raindance AI Video FAQ
Where the Raindance trend comes from, which photo goes where, what it costs and how to post it.
The Raindance trend is a TikTok and Reels format where people put themselves into the lakeside scene from the "Raindance" music video by Dave featuring Tems. One person performs the song to the lens from the pier and the beach, while a second person listens from the water's edge and later sits with them. The AI part is that the whole clip is generated from photos instead of being filmed.
From the official video for "Raindance", which Dave released on 9 January 2026. It was directed by Nathan James Tettey and filmed in Lagos, Nigeria, and the pier and sand shots of Dave and Tems are the ones the Raindance trend copies.
No. "Raindance" is a real song by the British rapper Dave featuring the Nigerian singer Tems, from his album The Boy Who Played the Harp, released on 23 October 2025. It reached number one on the UK Singles Chart in January 2026. Only the clips in the Raindance trend are AI-made.
To recreate rain dance AI video clips for the trend, upload a photo of the singer and a photo of the partner in the generator above, pick a quality and press Generate Video. The AI draws you both, copies every shot of the scene and adds the song, so the download is ready to post without any editing.
No. The CapCut templates cut your existing photos or clips to the song; they don't put you on the pier. Here you recreate rain dance AI video footage with yourself inside the scene. If you like, you can still open the finished MP4 in CapCut to add text or trim it.
Two, one per role. Each can come from anywhere: last summer's holiday snap for one of you, a recent selfie for the other. To play both parts yourself, put the same photo in both slots.
Photo 1 is the singer: they're in all 8 shots, from a small figure at the end of the pier to every close-up, and they do all the singing. Photo 2 is the partner: they sit on the pier in the opening shot and lean in beside the singer on the sand. The partner never sings. Swap the photos to swap the parts.
It works best with two separate photos, one person in each. If you only have a picture of the two of you together, crop it into two pictures first, one around each face, so the AI knows exactly who plays which part.
Yes. A dog, cat or other pet can take either slot. Cast as the singer, it mouths along in time with the song using its own jaw and lips; cast as the partner, it waits at the edge of the pier and later settles down next to the singer on the beach. It stays a real animal throughout, with paws rather than hands.
Mostly. The singer keeps their own top, shoes and accessories, but below the waist they always wear a long, flowing skirt, because that is the look of the scene; the colour is matched to their top. The partner wears exactly what's in their photo, from every angle. Swimwear or sleepwear is swapped for a simple top.
One person per photo, looking at the camera, face large and evenly lit, no sunglasses and no heavy filter. A waist-up or full-body picture is better than a tight selfie, because it shows the AI your build and your outfit for the wide shots on the pier.
Almost always it's the photo: a small face, a side angle, dim light or something covering part of the face. Try a sharper, front-facing picture, and use 720p or 1080p if the close-ups matter to you. Each generation is a new take, so running it again can also help.
Yes. The Raindance track is added under the finished clip, starting on the first frame and matched to the 15 seconds of the scene, so you don't have to add the sound in TikTok. If you'd rather use TikTok's own sound, mute the original audio when you post.
15 seconds, 16:9 widescreen, the opening of the scene with all 8 of its cuts. To post it vertically, crop it to 9:16 in TikTok's or Instagram's editor; many posts in the Raindance trend keep the widescreen frame because it feels closer to the original film.
500 credits at 480p, 1,200 credits at 720p and 2,000 credits at 1080p. The price covers the whole job, including drawing both of you before the video is made, and it's shown on the button before you generate.
Signing up gives you free credits and a daily check-in adds more, so you can recreate rain dance AI video duets without paying at first. When those run out, the one-time Trial Pack covers a 480p Raindance AI video, and no subscription is needed.
Usually around 10 minutes, because the AI first draws both of you and then makes the Raindance AI video. You can leave the page while it runs; the finished clip is saved in My Creations.
No. The MP4 downloads without a watermark or logo.
It may, and it should: TikTok asks creators to label realistic AI-generated videos, and many posts in the Raindance trend carry the AI-generated tag. Turn on the AI-generated content label when you post so the video isn't flagged later.
They're used only to make your video. The photos and the result are stored in your account so you can download them again, and you can delete them at any time. We don't sell them or use them to train our own models; see the privacy policy for details.
It's part of the Raindance look. Tems performs that scene in a long, full skirt, and the way it moves on the pier and spreads over the sand is half of what makes the scene recognisable, so every singer gets one.
Put the two of you on the pier
Two photos and no prompt is all it takes to recreate rain dance AI video scenes. The Raindance AI video generator casts one of you as the singer and one as the partner in the lakeside music video, with the song already under it, ready to download and post.
