# Giant Cat AI Video: Make Your Pet a Giant in New York > A giant cat AI video shows a cat as tall as the skyscrapers walking through a real city while people run and scream. Canonical: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/giant-cat-ai-video Updated: 2026-11-09 Published: 2026-11-09 Author: MakeViral Team (https://www.makeviral.ai/about) Publisher: MakeViral (https://www.makeviral.ai) A **giant cat AI video** shows a cat as tall as the skyscrapers walking through a real city while people run and scream. Add one photo, and your own cat, dog or other pet becomes the giant cat in city streets of New York, in a 10-second vertical clip. The Human version makes you the giant. Your cat walks down a New York avenue as tall as the towers, peers into a car window and leans on a skyscraper while helicopters circle. Add one photo of your pet, or of yourself, and get the 10-second clip with the street sound. Also called: Giant Cat Stride, Catzilla, Giant pet in the city, Giant in New York. **Make it now:** [Make this video](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/giant-cat-ai-video/create). 1 photo · 10 s · 9:16 with sound · 152 credits, charged once · ready in up to several minutes · no prompt to write. Keyword: giant cat ai video. Also answers: giant cat ai, giant cat in city, giant cat video, giant cat new york, giant pet ai, giant dog ai video, ai giant animal, giant ai video, giant cat attacks city, giant cat destroys city, giant dog ai, giant animal ai, giant cat sora ai, giant cat world, giant ai man, giant in new york city, giant walking in city, giant pet cat, big cat ai video, giant cat ai trend, giant cat tiktok. ## What is the Giant Cat AI trend, and where did it start? Giant animals in real cities are one of the oldest AI video jokes, and the giant cat video leads it. The format looks like amateur news footage on purpose: a shaky phone at street level, a look up through a window, a low angle with helicopters. The wave grew with the new video models in late 2025. On 22 October 2025 @mamacathome posted a giant white cat on CCTV with TikTok's AI label; it has 3.3 million views. On 5 November 2025 @longliveai wrote that "the internet is flooded with hyper-realistic clips of a gigantic cat", made with Sora 2, "crashing into cities" and "casually sitting on skyscrapers". That is why people still search for **giant cat sora ai** clips. In 2026 whole accounts live on it. @thegiantcatworld's giant cat that is a subway train (18 October 2026) has 3.9 million views and 305,500 likes, and owners make their own pets the giant: @pixcelthecat posted a ginger cat as a giant in New York City on 8 October. On 9 November 2026 the template "Giant Cat Stride" made the New York walk a one-photo effect. The #giantcat hashtag holds 10,250 TikTok videos and 409.7 million views. ### Giant Cat AI trend timeline - **2025-10-22**: @mamacathome posts a giant white cat on CCTV with TikTok's AI label. It has 3.3 million views and 215,900 likes on 9 November 2026. Source: [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@mamacathome/video/7564152689613933846). - **2025-11-05**: @longliveai posts a round-up of Sora 2 clips of a gigantic cat "crashing into cities" and "sitting on skyscrapers", with TikTok's AI label. Source: [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@longliveai/video/7569380265047428374). - **2026-10-08**: @pixcelthecat posts Pixcel, a real ginger cat, as a giant in New York City: owners start to put their own pets in the format. Source: [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@pixcelthecat/video/7694423670692842760). - **2026-10-18**: @thegiantcatworld posts "When the train is late because the train is a cat", an AI giant cat in a subway station. It has 3.9 million views and 305,500 likes on 9 November. Source: [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@thegiantcatworld/video/7697896324095593749). - **2026-11-09**: The "Giant Cat Stride" template turns the New York walk into a one-photo effect. The #giantcat hashtag holds 10,250 TikTok videos and 409.7 million views. Source: [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/tag/giantcat). ## What the Giant Cat AI video looks like This is the AI-made template clip of the trend, with its own street sound: the cat and the people are AI-made. Your video copies the same three shots with your pet or with you. - **Example 1** (10 s, 9:16 MP4 with sound): The Giant Cat Stride clip: an AI-made ginger cat as tall as the towers walks down a New York avenue while people run, peers into a car window and waves a paw, and leans on a glass skyscraper under circling helicopters. Pet puts your own pet in its place. - Video: https://www.makeviral.ai/media/templates/giant-cat-ai-video/original-pet-v2.mp4 - Poster: https://www.makeviral.ai/media/templates/giant-cat-ai-video/original-pet-v1.jpg ## How to make the Giant Cat AI video on MakeViral Everything runs in the browser. No editing app, no watermark. ### The one-tap way (no prompt to write) 1. **Add your photo.** Press "Make yours" and add you, head to toes, face clear. Take it with the camera or pick it from your library. Start here: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/giant-cat-ai-video/create 2. **Press Generate.** The button shows the price. Seedance 2.5 puts your photos into the Giant Cat AI Video trend clip and copies it shot by shot for 10 seconds, with the reel's original song. You write no prompt. 3. **Download or share.** The video is ready in up to several minutes as a 9:16 MP4. Download it, share it from your phone, or find it later in My videos. ### The by-hand way, with the exact prompts The one-tap flow runs this prompt for you. The video prompt animates your own photo directly. To change it, copy it and edit it in AI Video. #### Variant: Human Settings: 1 photo (you, head to toes, face clear) · Seedance 2.5 · 10 s · 720p · 9:16 · no sound · 152 credits in one tap. 1. The video prompt is filled in. Settings: Seedance 2.5, 10 s, 720p, 9:16, sound off. The video prompt: ```text Recreate the reference video [Video 1] shot for shot: a busy New York avenue between old stone office towers and glass skyscrapers on a bright overcast day, yellow taxis, crowds running and screaming, helicopters, early-2000s handheld camcorder look, the same camera angles, cuts, timing and moves. The ONLY change: the giant man in the gray hood who walks through the city is now the person in [Image 1], still a giant as tall as the buildings. The giant = the person in [Image 1], in EVERY shot: copy the exact face from [Image 1]: face shape, eye color and eye shape, eyebrows, nose, mouth, skin tone, age, hair color, hair length and hairstyle, and any beard, moustache, glasses or freckles exactly as in the photo. The giant wears the clothes from [Image 1], at the giant's size; if [Image 1] shows only the head or the upper body, invent the rest so it matches naturally. The same real person in every frame, from the first second to the last, so their friends instantly recognize them, also through the car window and from the low angle. Never morph, never drift back to the original giant's face. NO hood, NO gray hoodie, NO black bomber jacket, NO very wide blue jeans and NO big silver belt buckle unless [Image 1] shows them: the hair from [Image 1] shows. If [Image 1] shows an animal, the giant is that animal with its own face, fur and markings and the natural body volume and proportions of that animal: never flattened, squashed, stretched or merged with anything. The shots, exactly as in [Video 1]: 00:00-00:03.75: street level on the crowded avenue, the camera backs away; the giant walks slowly toward the camera down the middle of the street, the head up at the top floors, while people run past the camera screaming. 00:03.75-00:06.92: hard cut, from inside a car looking up through the rear side window: the giant stands beside a glass skyscraper, looks down into the car, raises one hand and waves; a helicopter flies by. 00:06.92-00:10: hard cut, extreme low angle from the street at the giant's feet, tiny yellow taxis below: the giant rests one hand on the glass skyscraper and looks up at three helicopters circling. Only the giant changes. The people, the taxis, the buildings and the helicopters keep their normal size and stay exactly as in [Video 1]. The giant keeps the original giant's huge scale in every shot. Real live-action footage, clear facial features, no distortion. Anatomy rules: one head only, on the giant's shoulders. Two arms and two hands, five fingers on each hand. Exactly one giant. No text, no captions, no logos, no watermark. ``` 2. Press Generate, then download the 9:16 MP4. One-tap version of this variant: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/giant-cat-ai-video/create #### Variant: Pet Settings: 1 photo (your pet, whole body) · Seedance 2.5 · 10 s · 720p · 9:16 · no sound · 152 credits in one tap. 1. The video prompt is filled in. Settings: Seedance 2.5, 10 s, 720p, 9:16, sound off. The video prompt: ```text Recreate the reference video [Video 1] shot for shot: a busy New York avenue between old stone office towers and glass skyscrapers on a bright overcast day, yellow taxis, crowds running and screaming, helicopters, early-2000s handheld camcorder look, the same camera angles, cuts, timing and moves. The ONLY change: the giant man in the gray hood is completely replaced by the pet in [Image 1], a giant pet as tall as the buildings. STRICT WHOLE-BODY REPLACEMENT: the WHOLE giant changes, not just the head. [Image 1] is the DIRECT REPLACEMENT SOURCE, not a style reference. Do NOT blend [Image 1] with the original giant. The pet inherits the giant's exact screen position, scale in frame, head direction, gaze, movements and timing in every shot. Never a human head, human face, human hands or human clothes: no hood, no hoodie, no jacket, no jeans, no belt. The giant pet = the pet in [Image 1], in EVERY frame: the same species and breed, face, eyes, ears, muzzle, whiskers, fur colors, fur length and markings as in [Image 1], with the natural body volume and proportions of that animal: never flattened, squashed, stretched or merged with anything. Whether [Image 1] shows a cat, a dog or another animal, it stays that animal, soft, furry and heavy, with animal paws. The same pet in every frame, from the first second to the last, so its owner instantly recognizes it. The shots, exactly as in [Video 1]: 00:00-00:03.75: street level on the crowded avenue, the camera backs away; the giant pet walks slowly toward the camera down the middle of the street, upright on its hind legs like the giant, its head up at the top floors, while people run past the camera screaming. 00:03.75-00:06.92: hard cut, from inside a car looking up through the rear side window: the giant pet stands beside a glass skyscraper, peers down into the car, lifts one front paw and waves; a helicopter flies by. 00:06.92-00:10: hard cut, extreme low angle from the street at the pet's hind paws, tiny yellow taxis below: the giant pet stands on its hind legs, rests one front paw on the glass skyscraper and looks up at three helicopters circling. Only the giant changes. The people, the taxis, the buildings and the helicopters keep their normal size and stay exactly as in [Video 1]. Real live-action footage, realistic fur, no distortion. Anatomy rules: one head only, one muzzle. Four legs and animal paws, never human hands. Exactly one giant animal, no people as the giant. No text, no captions, no logos, no watermark. ``` 2. Press Generate, then download the 9:16 MP4. One-tap version of this variant: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/giant-cat-ai-video/create?variant=pet ### Which photo works best? Upload **one photo**: of your pet for Pet, of yourself for Human. - **Pet:** one animal, the whole body in view if you can, eyes open, sharp and in daylight. The fur colors, the ears and the markings come from your photo, so a clear side or front view of the whole pet works best. A fluffy cat or a big dog looks the most like the viral clips. - **Human:** head to toes or at least waist up, face to the camera, sharp and in good light. The giant wears the clothes in your photo. - No sunglasses, no hat that hides the face and no beauty filter. - Any background works: the street, the taxis and the helicopters come from the clip. - Use your own photo, your own pet or a friend who said yes. Never a celebrity or a stranger. ## How many credits does it cost? You pay per video in credits, and the create page shows the exact price on the Generate button before you spend anything. The one-tap price covers the scene photo and the video, charged once. The cheaper models are there if you run the prompts by hand in AI Video. | Video model | Settings | Credits | | --- | --- | --- | | Seedance 2.5 (this template) | 10 s, 720p, copies the trend clip, one tap | 152 | Credits come with a plan; see [pricing](https://www.makeviral.ai/pricing). A failed video gives its credits back. ## What happens in the giant cat AI video, second by second? Each version copies the same three shots of the trend's clip, and your photo becomes the giant. The street, the people, the taxis and the camera come from the clip: | Time | The shot | Pet | Human | |---|---|---|---| | 0 to 3.8 s | Street level on a crowded avenue, people run past the camera screaming | Your pet walks toward the camera as tall as the buildings | You walk toward the camera as tall as the buildings | | 3.8 to 6.9 s | From inside a car, looking up through the window | Your pet peers down into the car and waves a paw | You look down into the car and wave | | 6.9 to 10 s | A low angle from the street, helicopters circling | Your pet leans a front paw on a glass skyscraper | You lean a hand on the glass skyscraper | **How it works:** top-quality AI video models, including Seedance 2.5, edit the clip itself: they swap the giant for the pet or person in your photo and keep everything else. You get 10 seconds, vertical, at 720p, with the clip's own street sound and screams put back after the run. A run takes 5 to 15 minutes, and the exact price shows on the Generate button before you spend anything. Every run is a new take, so results differ. ## Pet or Human: which giant should you make? - **Pet** is the giant pet AI version of the trend: your cat, dog or other pet replaces the giant from head to paws and walks upright through New York like the viral ginger cat. It works as a giant dog AI video too: any animal stays its own species, fur and face. - **Human** makes you the giant. You walk down the avenue in your own clothes and wave into the car, the giant AI man of the clip with your face. **Caption ideas:** "My cat when I'm 5 minutes late with dinner", "POV: you said the dog can't come to New York", "Main character energy", "Catzilla is real". Or write your own. More giants and city clips: be the 541 ft singer of the [Hippo Pathway what if trend](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/hippo-pathway-giant-pop-star-ai-trend), fly the [Manhattan FPV drone](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/manhattan-fpv-drone-ai), or make your cat a [knight](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/knight-cat-ai-video). ## What goes wrong, and how do you fix it? | Problem | Fix | |---|---| | Your pet gets a human body, a hood or jeans (Pet) | The giant in the guide clip is a man. The prompt asks for the whole animal with paws. Use a photo that shows the whole pet and run it again. | | The fur or the markings look different | Use a sharp daylight photo where the coat is clear, not a dark or blurry one. | | A gray hood or baggy jeans show up (Human) | The guide clip's giant wears them. The prompt bans them unless your photo shows them; a photo with your clothes in full view helps. | | The giant looks small | Run it again: the prompt keeps the giant as tall as the buildings, but every run is a new take. | | The model refuses a photo | Some photos get refused. The credits come back; try another photo. | ## Which sound, caption and hashtags should you post it with? Your clip comes with the clip's own sound: city noise, people screaming "Oh God!" and the helicopters, with no music. You can turn it off on the result screen, or add a trending sound in the app when you post. Many giant cat TikTok posts use a dramatic sound or a news-style voice-over. **Hashtags:** #giantcat (10,250 TikTok videos and 409.7 million views on 9 November 2026), #aivideo and #catsoftiktok. Keep the platform's AI label on. **Keep it a joke.** Make it with your own pet, your own face or a friend who said yes, and never post it as a real news event. ## Giant Cat AI trend questions ### What is the giant cat AI video trend? It is a format of AI clips where a cat as tall as the skyscrapers walks through a real city while people run, filmed like shaky amateur news footage. It grew in late 2025 with Sora 2 and other new models, and in 2026 people started to make their own pets the giant. Some call it Catzilla. ### How do I make a giant cat AI video of my own cat? Press "Create your own", pick Pet and add one clear photo of your cat. Press Generate; the button shows the price first. You get a 10-second clip of your cat as a giant in New York, with the street sound, and it waits in My videos when it is ready. You write no prompt. ### Can I make a giant dog AI video? Yes. Pick Pet and add a photo of your dog. The giant dog AI version keeps your dog's face, fur and markings and walks it through the same New York streets. Other pets work too. ### Can I be the giant myself? Yes. Pick Human and add a photo of yourself, head to toes if you can. You walk down the avenue as tall as the towers in your own clothes, wave into the car and lean on a skyscraper. ### Is this the "giant cat destroys city" or "giant cat attacks city" video? It is the friendly version: your giant cat walks through the city, waves and leans on a skyscraper while people run and helicopters circle, but it destroys nothing. That keeps it funny and safe to post. ### What is Giant Cat Stride? Giant Cat Stride is the name of the template for this New York walk: a giant ginger cat strides down an avenue, peers through a high-rise window and leans on a tower. This page makes the same giant cat stride with your own pet, or with you, from one photo. ### Was the giant cat made with Sora AI? Many giant cat clips in late 2025 were made with Sora 2. This template uses top-quality AI video models, including Seedance 2.5, that copy the clip's shots with your photo, so you need no Sora access and no prompt. ### Is the giant cat in New York real? No. Every giant cat New York clip of the trend is AI-made, and so is yours: the giant is put into the clip by AI from one still photo. Keep the AI label on when you post it. ### Which prompt does this template use? The template behind the trend has no text prompt: it copies a guide clip of a giant walking through New York and takes the giant's look from photos. This page does the same, with our own prompt that names the three shots and keeps your pet's face, fur and markings, or your face and clothes. ### How long is the video and what format is it? 10 seconds as a vertical 9:16 MP4 at 720p, with the clip's own street sound. It plays on TikTok, Reels and Shorts, and there is no watermark. ### Does the giant cat AI video cost credits? Yes. Each video costs credits, and the create page shows the exact price on the Generate button before you spend anything. If a video fails, the credits come back. ### Is there a giant cat world or big cat AI video account I can follow? Yes, accounts like @thegiantcatworld post a new giant cat clip every few days, and its subway clip has 3.9 million views. With this page you make a big cat AI video of your own pet instead of only watching. ### Can I make a giant walking in city video with something other than a cat? Yes. Any AI giant animal works on the Pet version, from a dog to a rabbit, and the Human version makes a giant man or woman walking through New York City. Every giant AI video here, animal or human, copies the same three shots. ## Other AI video templates and tools - [Hippo Pathway What If: Become the 541 ft Giant Pop Star](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/hippo-pathway-giant-pop-star-ai-trend): What if a pop star was 100 times taller? Add one photo: you or your pet become the giant who sings and dances down a city avenue at dusk, or the giant pop star shows up in a photo of your own street. - [Knight Cat AI Video: Make Your Cat or Dog the Kitten Knight](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/knight-cat-ai-video): Your cat or dog becomes the tiny knight: fitted silver armor, a sword twice its height and a cape snapping in the wind on a misty moor. Add your own photo to stand beside it as the big knight, or put your pet into the viral reels themselves. - [Manhattan FPV Drone AI: The Skyline Dive That Lands on You](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/manhattan-fpv-drone-ai): One continuous FPV drone shot: high above the Manhattan skyline, down between the skyscrapers, low over the yellow taxis, along the sidewalk, and it lands on you with a coffee in your hand. Add one photo of yourself or your pet. - [Meme Video](https://www.makeviral.ai/tools/meme-video-generator): One line of text, one image, six seconds. The cheapest format to produce and the easiest one to test ten different ways in an afternoon. - [AI TikTok Video](https://www.makeviral.ai/tools/ai-tiktok-video-generator): Eight native TikTok formats, one prompt or product URL, a finished 9:16 video with captions burned in. - [AI photo generator](https://www.makeviral.ai/ai-photo-generator) - [All AI video templates](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates) ## New AI video trends this week - [Turning My Mom Into Me: Put Your Mom in Your Outfit With AI](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/turning-my-mom-into-me-ai-trend): Your mom walks down the hallway in her own clothes, walks out, and struts back in wearing your outfit. Add one photo of her and one of you in your outfit, and get the viral reel with its caption and its sound. Dad works too. - [Stuffed Animal UFC AI Video: Your Plush Wins the Fight](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/stuffed-animal-ufc-ai-video): Your teddy, your pet or a plush version of you steps into the cage, lands the body shots, gets the knockout and celebrates with both arms up. One photo in, a 10-second clip with crowd and commentary sound out. Or add two photos and fight a friend: one wins, one goes down. - [Black and White Cinematic Video: You in the Classic Suit Stroll](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/black-and-white-cinematic-ai-video): One photo of you becomes a 15-second black and white film: you walk past the hedges in a long black coat, smile at the windows, wave and laugh on the stone steps, then pause under a black umbrella, to a slowed phonk beat. - [Düğün Dansı AI: Put Your Friends in the Wild Turkish Wedding Dance](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/dugun-oyunu-ai-trend): Two dancers go wild around the davul player in a Turkish wedding hall, a halay line bounces behind them, and a guest in a white tank top laughs into the camera at the end. Add three photos, two for a duo, or one of your pet. - [Hippo Pathway What If: Become the 541 ft Giant Pop Star](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/hippo-pathway-giant-pop-star-ai-trend): What if a pop star was 100 times taller? Add one photo: you or your pet become the giant who sings and dances down a city avenue at dusk, or the giant pop star shows up in a photo of your own street. - [Santa Nice List AI Video: Santa Checks His List and Finds You](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/santa-nice-list-ai-video): Santa unrolls his Naughty & Nice list in his workshop, smiles at the camera, and a swirl of gold sparkles opens on your own photo in a big gold frame while he says "You're on the nice list!" One photo in, a 10-second vertical clip with Santa's voice out. ## Make your own Giant Cat AI video Add one photo and press Generate. No prompt to write. 152 credits, charged once. [Make this video](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/giant-cat-ai-video/create)