Which AI video model holds an art style

A named style is easy to hit in one frame and hard to hold for five seconds. We asked 19 models for a woodblock print of a lighthouse in a storm and watched whether the waves stayed printed. The grid includes the September 18 additions; each model page dates its own run.

Anvisha Pai

Anvisha Pai, Co-founder & CEO, Voyager

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What the side-by-side shows

Veo 3.1 stays a woodblock print from first frame to last, with rain lines and flat colour. MiniMax H3 and Veo 3.1 Lite hold the style with lively waves. Wan 3.0 and Wan 2.7 both keep the ink look. Kling 3.0 Pro chose a bold graphic version that reads more as a screen print, which is a defensible reading. Hailuo 2.3 washed out to a pale illustration, Seedance 2.5 kept the style but hardly moved, and Gemini Omni Flash put a lightning bolt in halfway through and took it out again.

  1. 1.Veo 3.1 a woodblock print in every frame, rain and all.
  2. 2.MiniMax H3 held the style with the liveliest waves on the roster.
  3. 3.Veo 3.1 Lite a crisp print with a red-and-white lighthouse.
  4. 4.Wan 3.0 ink lines and flat colour held through a real storm.

Every video model on this prompt, 19 clips

One try each, nothing re-rolled or retouched, generated by us. Ranked models come first; the rest follow in family order. Open a model for the rest of its set.

›The prompt every model got

A lighthouse on a rocky cliff in a storm, in the style of a Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print, waves crashing in flat colour with visible wood grain, animated like moving paper cutouts.

A named style held across every frame rather than drifting to photoreal.

1Veo 3.1108s · $2.40

a woodblock print in every frame, rain and all.

2MiniMax H3116s · $0.30

held the style with the liveliest waves on the roster.

3Veo 3.1 Lite60s · $0.30

a crisp print with a red-and-white lighthouse.

4Wan 3.0170s · $0.50

ink lines and flat colour held through a real storm.

Gemini Omni Flash56s · $0.65
H3 Max Turbo6s · $0.10
H3 Max6s · $0.20
Hailuo 2.3197s · $0.28
Kling 3.0 Standard518s · $0.63
Kling 3.0 Pro665s · $0.84
LTX 2.373s · $0.48
Luma Ray 3.287s · $1.00
PixVerse V660s · $0.30
Seedance 2.0132s · $1.51
Seedance 2.5359s · $2.31
Sora 2200s · $0.40
Veo 3.1 Fast96s · $0.90
Wan 2.7108s · $0.50

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Frequently asked questions

Which AI video generator is best for anime or illustrated styles?

On a woodblock print, Veo 3.1, MiniMax H3, Veo 3.1 Lite and Wan 3.0 held the style across the clip. The usual failure is drift toward photoreal or a washed-out look, which Hailuo 2.3 showed.

Anvisha Pai

Anvisha Pai

Co-founder & CEO, Voyager

Anvisha is the CEO of Voyager and a repeat, Y Combinator-backed startup founder. She was previously a PM at Dropbox. She believes nobody should need a design degree to make something that looks great.

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