Skeletal Bae: The AI Skeleton X-Ray Trend, Explained

Skeletal Bae is a preset video effect in Flovaly's Viral Centre: upload one photo with your face visible, and the clip gives it a glowing, spooky-glam skeleton x-ray makeover. It runs on PixVerse v5.5 Effects, filed under the Transforms category, and goes straight from your photo to a finished clip in one generation — 5 credits at 720p or 8 at 1080p, no prompt field.

What the AI skeleton x-ray trend actually is

The skeleton picture trend has circulated widely on TikTok — glowing x-ray skeleton overlays on hands, faces, and full bodies, often described as a “100% automated” effect you tap once and get a result in under a minute. Most of what's driving the volume right now is the hand version — a real-time filter that turns your hand into a glowing skeleton on camera — but the same aesthetic shows up as a face and portrait treatment too, which is the version Skeletal Bae covers.

Who else covers this, and how

Most of what currently ranks for “AI skeleton video generator” isn't a single-tap preset. Media.io's version builds a separate 3D x-ray skeleton character for talking or story videos rather than transforming your own face. Pincel requires you to brush over the area you want turned into a skeleton and write a prompt describing it. Komiko's Convert Skeleton AI works as a video-to-video style transfer on footage you already have, not a photo-to-clip generator. And the AR camera apps — X-Ray Skeleton Scanner and similar “skeleton prank” apps — are live filters you record through, not something you can run against a photo after the fact. Skeletal Bae skips the brushing, the prompt, and the live camera step: one photo in, one finished clip out.

How to make one on Flovaly

1. Open Viral Centre in the dashboard sidebar and switch to the Transforms category.
2. Choose Skeletal Bae, then upload a photo or pick a saved character — one person, face clearly visible and well lit.
3. Pick a duration (5 or 8 seconds) and resolution (720p or 1080p). There is nothing else to configure; it's a fixed preset with no prompt field.
4. Check the credit cost shown above the Generate button and confirm. The clip queues in the background and lands in your gallery once it's ready.

Getting a convincing result

Since there's no prompt to compensate for a weak source photo, the image you start with does most of the work:

• Front-on and well lit. The scene is built around facial proportions, so a clear, evenly lit, front-facing shot gives the glow and bone-structure detail something clean to follow.
• One face per photo. Group shots or photos with a second face in frame give the model more than one subject to apply the effect to, which tends to muddy the result.
• Avoid heavy accessories over the face. Sunglasses, a hand near the chin, or hair falling across the eyes give the model less clean facial geometry to render the skeleton detail against.
• Draft at 720p, then re-run the keeper at 1080p. It's the cheaper way to confirm the framing works before spending the 1080p surcharge on the version you actually post.

What it costs

Skeletal Bae is priced like every standard PixVerse effect scene in the Viral Centre: 5 credits at 720p or 8 credits at 1080p, for a 5 or 8 second clip. On the $29 Starter plan (150 credits a month), that's roughly $0.97 at 720p or $1.55 at 1080p per clip — see pricing for how credits map to every plan, or the full cost breakdown for how Viral Centre effects compare to every other generation type on Flovaly.

One honest limitation: it's one look, not a menu

Because the preset has no prompt field, you get the one glowing-skeleton-glam look it's built for — there's no dial on glow colour, bone density, or how much of your face stays visible underneath. A prompt-driven photo editor gives you that control, at the cost of brushing over the area and writing a description yourself before you see a result. Skeletal Bae trades that control for going straight from one photo to one finished, shareable clip — see the full Viral Centre line-up for the rest of the Transforms category, including Werewolf Rage and Baby Face and the AI mermaid transformation. It's a $1 trial to try Skeletal Bae against your own photo.

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