Hotel Lobby AI
Step-by-Step Guide

How to Make a Hotel Lobby AI Video

Step by step: the three ways to put yourself, a friend, or your pet into Quavo & Takeoff’s viral orange booth.

Last updated: September 30, 2026

What you need

Before choosing a method, prepare your source photos. The quality of your input photos dictates 90% of your facial likeness:

Good Photo Checklist

  • • One front-facing portrait per person
  • • Soft, even lighting across the face
  • • Neutral or confident natural expression
  • • Eyes and mouth clearly visible

What to Skip

  • • Sunglasses, hats, or masks covering the face
  • • Extreme side-profiles (past 45 degrees)
  • • Blurry screenshots or dark low-light selfies
  • • Heavy Instagram beauty filters
Method 1 · Fastest & Most Accurate

The Hotel Lobby AI Video Generator

The dedicated tool at aihotellobbyvideo.com is designed specifically for this trend. It already knows the orange booth, the hanging mic, and the choreography, eliminating the need to write prompts or edit clips manually.

  1. 1. Go to the Generator: Open aihotellobbyvideo.com/hotel-lobby-ai-generator/.
  2. 2. Choose Solo or Duet: Select Solo for one performer, or Duet for two people (Person 1 takes the left spot, Person 2 takes the right).
  3. 3. Upload Photos: Drop your selfies into the designated slots.
  4. 4. Pick Duration: Select 6 seconds (hook) or 15 seconds (full verse trade-off).
  5. 5. Render & Download: Click Generate and download the finished vertical 9:16 MP4.
Method 2 · For DIY Prompt Engineers

Write a prompt for any AI video generator

If you have credits on Kling AI, OpenAI Sora, or Runway Gen-3, you can generate a Hotel Lobby video manually. You must describe the location, lighting, camera movement, and continuity constraints carefully:

Vertical 9:16 live performance video, 6 seconds. Two people stand shoulder to shoulder in a small studio booth with seamless matte-orange walls and floor. One vintage microphone hangs on its cable between them at mouth height. Soft, even key light from the front, no visible fixtures, clean soft shadows. Locked-off medium shot framing both from the waist up. They trade verses: the one on the left leans toward the mic and raps with relaxed hand gestures while the other nods to the beat, then they switch. Faces match reference photos, natural lip movement, realistic skin texture, outfits unchanged. No camera shake, no on-screen text, no logos.

Need custom options? Use our Free Prompt Builder to generate tailored prompts for different locations and lighting setups.

Method 3 · Quick Meme

A CapCut template

CapCut creators have published template cutouts of the COLORS performance. This is the fastest free option, but has clear limitations:

  • Open CapCut and search “Hotel Lobby COLORS duet”.
  • Select a popular template and replace the photo slots with your images.
  • Trade-off: It’s a 2D face cutout pasted on someone else’s body. Head turns can look warped and the timing cannot be adjusted.

Posting tips for your Hotel Lobby AI video

Crucial Audio Step for Viral Reach

When posting to TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts, always add the official sound from the platform library instead of uploading baked-in audio.

  1. Upload your downloaded 9:16 video.
  2. Tap Add sound and search for “HOTEL LOBBY - A COLORS SHOW” by Unc & Phew.
  3. Set the video’s original sound volume to 0% and the added music track to 100%.
  4. Tag with trending hashtags: #hotellobby #hotellobbyai #colorsshow.

Fixing common problems

Face looks like someone else?

Use front-facing photos with no beauty filters. Keep heads facing forward to prevent AI morphing.

Hands or fingers look warped?

Keep hand gestures low and below the chin. Hands passing directly in front of the mouth cause the most glitching.

Hotel Lobby AI Tutorial FAQ

Which method gives the best lip-sync and beat accuracy?

Method 1 (the dedicated Hotel Lobby AI video generator) produces the most accurate lip-sync and body moves because it relies on motion-control adapters pre-calibrated to the COLORS performance. General prompts in Kling or Sora often drift after 3 seconds.

Can I make a solo video if I don’t have a second person?

Yes. All three methods support Solo mode. On aihotellobbyvideo.com, simply choose Solo to have one performer center stage with the hanging microphone.

Will my video get muted on TikTok or Instagram?

Not if you follow our posting instructions! Always export the video and re-attach the official “HOTEL LOBBY - A COLORS SHOW” sound from TikTok’s or Instagram’s built-in audio library.