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May 25, 2026
Kling is Now on Pencil
# Creative Workflows
# Video generation
Here's What It Actually Unlocks
Emma Wilson
For anyone who's spent time generating video with AI models, you know the frustration. You write a careful prompt, generate something that looks almost right, and then watch it fall apart, a hand that morphs mid-frame, liquid that moves like jelly, a crowd of people whose limbs detach from their bodies. These aren't edge cases. They're the scenes that come up constantly in commercial production, and they've been genuinely hard to solve.
Kling is now live on Pencil, and we tested it across the use cases that have historically caused the most pain. Here's what we found.
The shots that have always been a problem
We didn't set out to run a benchmark. We set out to answer a more practical question: can Kling handle the kinds of shots creative teams actually need? The ones that clients ask for, that stock footage rarely covers convincingly, and that other models have struggled with.
We ran tests across 12 scenarios. What follows are the ones where Kling genuinely delivered.
Lotion on skin
Close-up skin texture and slow circular motion sounds simple. It isn't. Models tend to over-smooth the skin, distort the hand, or lose the product entirely mid-motion. With Kling, we got clean skin texture, believable hand movement, and the kind of soft natural light you'd expect from a real skincare shoot. This is a shot that shows up in practically every beauty brief, and it's now usable.
Workflow:
Prompt: Hand gently rubs lotion onto inner elbow in slow circular motions, soft daylight, subtle skin movement, cinematic macro close-up, shallow depth of field, realistic skincare commercial motion.
Kling 3.0 Result:
Kling 2.5 Result:
Multiple people at a dinner table
Group scenes are where body distortion gets brutal. Hands multiplying, faces glitching, someone's arm passing through the table. We prompted a warm, candid dinner scene with natural interaction, passing food, lifting glasses, laughing. Kling handled the group dynamics convincingly, with cinematic golden-hour lighting and none of the limb horror we've come to expect.
Workflow:
Prompt: Multiple people naturally interact around dinner table, laughing, passing food, subtle hand gestures and head movement, warm cinematic lighting, handheld lifestyle realism.
Kling 3.0 Result:
Kling 2.5 Result:
Biting into an ice cream bar
Macro food shots involving contact (a bite, a pour, a drizzle) are some of the hardest to get right because the physics has to be believable at close range. The shell crack, the melt, the mouth interaction. Kling produced a genuinely commercial-quality close-up here, with realistic texture and condensation. The kind of shot that typically requires a studio food stylist and a product shoot.
Workflow:
Prompt: Person bites into ice cream bar, chocolate shell cracks slightly, subtle melting and condensation movement, cinematic macro food commercial, realistic slow motion.
Kling 3.0 Result:
Kling 2.5 Result:
Hair in wind
Hair simulation is notoriously difficult. Individual strands clump, warp, or move in ways that immediately read as artificial. The brief here was a close-up beauty shot, hair blowing naturally in soft wind, individual strands moving separately, luxury haircare aesthetic. The output was clean, cinematic, and wouldn't look out of place in a paid campaign.
Workflow:
Prompt: Cinematic beauty close-up of a model’s hair blowing naturally in soft wind, individual strands moving realistically without clumping, subtle facial movement, luxury haircare commercial aesthetic.
Kling 3.0 Result:
Kling 2.5 Result:
Liquid pour into glass
Realistic liquid physics (splash, bubble formation, accurate fill) is one of those things that looks easy until you try to generate it. We tested a beverage pour scenario (whisky into a glass) with cinematic lighting and shallow depth of field. Both Kling 3.0 Omni and Kling 2.5 Turbo produced solid results here. The pour moved convincingly, the reflections held, and the overall aesthetic matched commercial beverage production standards.
Workflow:
Prompt: Realistic liquid being poured from a bottle into a clear glass, natural splash and bubble formation, accurate liquid physics, cinematic beverage commercial lighting, shallow depth of field.
Kling 3.0 Result:
Kling 2.5 Result:
Macro chocolate shot
Slow-motion melted chocolate being poured over a dessert is a staple of food advertising, and a great stress test for texture realism and fluid dynamics at close range. Kling delivered rich, viscous movement with realistic reflections and the kind of dramatic macro lighting that makes food look genuinely desirable.
Workflow:
Prompt: Extreme macro shot of glossy melted chocolate being slowly poured onto a dessert, rich flowing texture, realistic viscosity and reflections, cinematic food commercial lighting, shallow depth of field.
Kling 3.0 Result:
Kling 2.5 Result:
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The consistent pattern across these use cases is that Kling handles complex motion at close range and multi-person scenes better than we've seen from other models in these scenarios. The physics is more grounded, the skin and texture detail holds up, and the overall output lands closer to what you'd expect from a production shoot.
That doesn't mean it solved everything, we'll be sharing more on the edge cases and where prompt refinement is still needed. But for the scenarios above, Kling on Pencil is now a genuine production option.
We're continuing to run tests. If there are specific scenes or use cases you've been struggling to crack, let us know in the comments, we want to know what's on your list.
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