Animate a rangoli photo into a 5-second Diwali clip for $0.63

To animate a rangoli photo for Diwali, upload the photo, then send it to Sume's Video Router as the first frame of a 5-second Wan 3.0 clip with a prompt that moves only the light: diya flames flickering, a soft glow shifting over the coloured powder. At 720p that is 5 seconds x $0.125 = $0.625, and the rangoli you made stays the one in the picture.

Diwali 2026 is Sunday, November 8, with the five-day festival running November 6 to 10, according to Awareness Days (read 2026-10-04), which also lists lighting diyas, creating rangoli, exchanging gifts and gathering with loved ones among the celebrations. A short clip of your own rangoli is a greeting that is hard to mistake for a stock template.

Why start from your own photo, not a generated rangoli?

Rangoli is hand-made, and a family's pattern is the point of the greeting. When a video model is given a photo as the first frame it continues from that image rather than inventing a new design, so the geometry you laid out stays yours. Keep the prompt to motion that does not rewrite the pattern, and say so: "keep the rangoli unchanged".

What does the request look like?

Wan 3.0 takes a start frame through image_url, accepts 2 to 30 seconds, and offers 480p, 720p and 1080p. Image inputs must be public HTTPS URLs that Sume can fetch (Media inputs), so host the photo somewhere reachable first. Choose 1:1 or 9:16 for the message you will send.

curl -X POST https://api.sume.com/v1/video-router/generate \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SUME_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: rangoli-clip-001" \
  -d '{
    "model": "wan-3.0",
    "prompt": "Keep the rangoli unchanged. The diya flames flicker gently and warm light moves slowly across the coloured powder. Static camera. No text.",
    "image_url": "https://example.com/my-rangoli.jpg",
    "resolution": "720p",
    "duration": 5,
    "aspect_ratio": "1:1",
    "mode": "async"
  }'

What does it cost at each resolution?

The catalog lists Wan 3.0 at $0.05, $0.10 and $0.20 per second by resolution tier, and Sume bills list x 1.25 on every Video Router row (Video Router docs). A rangoli photo does not need 1080p for a phone message, so draft at 720p and spend more only for a screen.

When should I send it?

Dhanteras is Friday, November 6, and the main Lakshmi Puja evening is Sunday, November 8, so a clip finished by the 5th has time to be forwarded. Poll GET /v1/jobs/{id}/status until it is completed and take the video from the job result (Jobs and results).

If you want it in a longer greeting with photos and music, the recipe in Diwali greeting video from photos takes this clip as one slot.