Short answer
Use one full-body photo of one adult, standing, facing the camera, in good light, in exactly the clothes you want to score in. The scorer runs across a floodlit pitch for the whole 15 seconds, so the whole body and outfit are on screen almost the entire time; a cropped headshot leaves the render with nothing to animate below the neck.
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The one effect here that wants a full-body photo — and the clothes are half the video.
Updated 2026-11-04
The short checklist
- Full body, or at least knees up, standing up straight, face to the camera.
- One person only. Two people in one frame merge into one runner.
- Even light from the front — the scene is a floodlit night pitch and it inherits your shadows.
- No sunglasses, nothing held in front of the body, no bag over the shoulder.
- Sharp. It is going to be a small figure in a wide frame.
Why this one wants a full body
Every other effect on this site is a portrait job, because the face is the subject. Here it is not. The scorer is a moving figure on a pitch: they run, jump, take a ball on the chest and turn away from the camera. The render needs your whole silhouette, your proportions and your shoes, or the body it generates belongs to nobody.
The face still matters, but it is roughly 40 pixels wide in the opening seconds and often turned away after that. That is why the outfit does so much of the work: it is the thing that stays legible when the face is a smudge.
What to wear
Wear the outfit you want to see on the pitch. The render keeps it, and the gap between the clothes and the occasion is the joke: a suit, a wedding dress, a dressing gown, pyjamas, a chef’s apron, school uniform, a high-vis jacket.
The one thing to avoid is a football kit. It is the obvious choice, and it removes the entire joke — you look like a player, so the clip becomes a bad football video instead of a good one.
What actually breaks
| Photo | What happens |
|---|---|
| A headshot | The render invents a body, and it will not be yours |
| Two people in one frame | Both faces average into one runner |
| A seated or cropped-at-the-waist photo | The legs are guessed and the run looks wrong |
| Sunglasses | The eyes are invented and the likeness goes |
| A photo shot into the sun | The face stays in silhouette for the whole clip |
| A bag, a coat over the arm, a held object | It gets welded into the running pose |
If the render misses
- 1Check the first two seconds first: that is the widest, clearest look at the scorer.
- 2If the body looks wrong, the photo is probably cropped too high — reshoot standing, head to shoes.
- 3If the face is wrong, try 720p and a sharper photo; the figure is small, so pixel count is everything.
- 4If the original outfit shows up, your photo was too dark to read the clothes. Use a photo with clear, flat light.