Using Grok Imagine to create video featuring slot machine and your own images

Following Elon Musk’s repost on X, a prompt for the Grok Imagine neural network went viral, creating a short video featuring a slot machine with the option to insert your own faces or images into the reels. We tested how this prompt works and how to use it. This approach could be useful for creating iGaming creatives.

• https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2032346463012077996

Generation result

The logic is simple: you specify the starting frame, then use @image1, @image2, @image3, and @image4 to indicate what should appear in the first frame and which images should appear on the reels. The output is a ready-made generated video:

Essentially, this is a standard image-to-video script with image references. It’s not a separate new feature, but simply a ready-made prompt that can be quickly adapted for memes and, perhaps, other creative content.

Prompt’s example

First frame is @image1. Static shot. Wheels on the slot machine spins and the following symbols appear (their face only as a slot machine icon) from left to right with the left most stopping first, then the center one, and then the right one: @image2 with gray blue eyes (same expression) then @image3 then @image4. After the wheels stop the machine lights up, winning sounds. No fades no dissolved.

Starting image

You can download the starting image from the example here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/10XpTLxtN8xD9oY35w4hGV22xdP0sYJMB/view?usp=sharing

How it works

You can try it out for free here: https://grok.com/imagine

Here’s how it works:

• take the starting frame;
• insert the required images using @image1, @image2, @image3, @image4;
• specify via a prompt how the reels should spin and in what order they should stop, or insert a ready-made prompt;
• Grok will compile a short video from this.