Your selfie sitting on giant letters that spell the month. One photo, 38 credits for both renders, flaws and failed tries shown.
Real workflow: a man in a navy sweater against a grey wall, then the same man sitting on yellow NOVEMBRE letters in an autumn park, and leaning on red DÉCEMBRE letters in a snowy square. The R of DÉCEMBRE is almost hidden behind him, and a wedding ring appeared in both pictures.
At a glance
Since October, people have been posting photos of themselves next to giant 3D letters that spell the name of the month. The videosi.io tracker lists it among trends that are just starting (page dated 10 November 2026) and has seen it circulating since 10 October. All it takes is a selfie: the model builds the letters and the seasonal setting, then puts you on them.
The workflow gives you two images, with the demo using French month names. November sits you on top of the M of a big mustard yellow NOVEMBRE, on a path covered with fallen leaves. December has you leaning on a red DÉCEMBRE in a snowy square, a lit tree behind. November came out right on the first try. December took three, and the R is still almost hidden on the one we kept: a long word with someone standing in front of it is where the model slips.
For next year with giant 2027 numbers, see the New Year photo. For a round avatar, the Christmas profile picture, and to keep your photo as it is and just turn autumn into winter, change the season in a photo. Both renders cost 38 credits, see pricing.
These are the files of the workflow above, exactly as the models produced them, unretouched. The starting point is shown when there is one.
Starting point
Render
People who want a start of month post like Hello November or Hello December for Instagram, TikTok or Facebook, creators following AI photo trends, small brands that want a seasonal picture with their founder.
A sharp, front-facing, well lit selfie of you or of someone who agrees, and a description of their face in the prompt (beard, glasses, haircut). For another month, the word and the list of its letters in order. The photo is optional.
Take a well lit selfie, facing the camera
In these wide shots, your face takes up a small part of the picture. The sharper the selfie, the better the model keeps it at that size.
Stand at the end of the word or sit on it
On the demo, whenever he stood in front of the letters, he hid one. Sitting on top of a letter or standing beside the last one keeps the whole word readable. Ask for a wide shot, taken straight on.
Spell the word letter by letter
The prompts give the word in quotes, then each letter in order, and say where the accent in DÉCEMBRE goes. Keep that format for another month: it is what got the word through.
Read every letter before you post
The demo's first DÉCEMBRE said "DÉCEMBÉ". On a phone screen it does not jump out. Spell the word on the full size picture, and rerun if a letter is missing.
The same canvas, tuned for different needs: each variation is two or three lines of prompt away.
Swap NOVEMBRE for the month you want, with its letters listed in order, and change the setting: a beach in August, cherry blossoms in April. The shorter the word, the fewer mistakes. MAY or JUNE go through better than SEPTEMBER. Not tested on the demo.
The prompts set mustard yellow and red lacquer. Ask for gold letters, dusty pink ones or silver foil balloon letters, which show up a lot in these posts. Balloons reflect a lot of light and the picture can get busy. Not tested.
For a birthday, spell your first name in giant letters, still letter by letter in the prompt. A four or five letter name holds up better than a long or double name. Check the spelling before you send the picture. Not tested on the demo.
Plug two photos into the node and put each person at one end of the word, or sitting side by side on two letters. Two bodies in front of the word means two letters that may vanish. Not tested, the demo starts from one photo.
Many posts read "HELLO NOVEMBER". You can ask for it on two lines of letters, but every extra letter is one more to get right. If a word breaks, keep the month alone and put "Hello" in the post caption instead.
Plug a Video node in after the November picture and describe a simple movement: leaves falling, the camera slowly pulling back. Avoid having him move in front of the letters, which may warp from frame to frame. Not tested on the demo.
On the demo, every December try where he stood in front of the letters hid one of them: the C, then the R. Sitting on top or standing at the end of the word, in a wide shot taken straight on, keeps the word whole.
"DÉCEMBÉ" looks like DÉCEMBRE at a glance. Read every letter on the enlarged picture before you post: a typo in letters a metre tall gets noticed in the comments.
An accented letter like É makes it harder for the model, which may move it or add one somewhere else. Say which letter carries the accent and write "only the second letter has an accent", as in the December prompt.
Here the letters spell the name of the month, for a start of month post. The New Year photo puts giant 2027 numbers in the picture for the turn of the year.
The model added one in both demo pictures without being asked. Write "no ring, no jewellery" in the prompt if you do not wear any.
Yes, change the word and the list of letters in the prompt. Months without accents go through more easily than DÉCEMBRE, which took three tries on the demo.
38 credits, 19 per render on Nano Banana Pro. Each rerun costs 19 credits, so the three December tries on the demo cost 57 credits on their own.
Yes, by switching the node to Nano Banana 2.1 at 1K, 7 credits per render. The face will be less faithful and the letters wrong more often. The demo runs on Nano Banana Pro.
2400 x 1792 pixels, landscape, in 4:3. Enough for a cropped Instagram or Facebook post, a banner or a sharp 6 x 8 inch print.
We do not know who started it. The videosi.io tracker marks it "Just starting" on its page of 10 November 2026 and has seen it circulating since 10 October. Imaginode has no link with the site.
The photo is optional in the canvas, but without it the model invents a man. To be the one on the letters, you need your selfie.
3D month letters AI photo from your selfie
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