Higgsfield's Genjutsu Restyle redraws videos in 20+ styles

Higgsfield added Genjutsu Restyle, a mode that redraws an entire video in a new visual style while keeping the original motion, timing and camera work, to its Genjutsu video tool on September 30, 2026.

Higgsfield's own changelog logs the release that date under its "Release" tag and "Video Tools" chip, and Higgsfield's official account on X posted the same day that the feature brings "Genjutsu's motion transfer and video editing to your apps and workflows" through the Higgsfield API.

Restyle runs inside Genjutsu's Motion Transfer mode. A creator uploads a source clip and picks one of more than 20 built-in animation styles, called presets in Higgsfield's API reference, or builds a custom look from reference images instead. Output comes back at 480p, 720p or 1080p, with 720p as the API's default.

Genjutsu itself is Higgsfield's tool for changing an object, location, product or character in a clip without a reshoot, launched September 1, 2026, per the same changelog. Its original two modes, Motion Transfer and Object Swap, drive a new scene off a reference clip's movement or swap one element while the rest of the frame stays untouched. Higgsfield's blog on Genjutsu prices a 15-second generation in either mode at $2.00 in 480p, $5.20 in 720p or $7.20 in 1080p.

The API reference for the Restyle model, listed as higgsfield/genjutsu/restyle/v1.0, requires a source video of at least 4 seconds and at most 200 MiB; clips over 30 seconds are trimmed to their first 30 seconds, audio included. Source audio carries into the finished video, and the documentation states Restyle "does not expose an option to generate a new soundtrack or replace the source audio." The same page prices Restyle by source-video second: about $0.318 at 480p, $0.681 at 720p and $1.632 at 1080p. Higgsfield's own model catalog, though, still lists Restyle's price as unpublished next to Motion Transfer and Object Swap, which it prices identically per second.

Higgsfield's Genjutsu product page and blog both say Restyle accepts up to 30 character reference images, matching Motion Transfer and Object Swap. The API reference for Restyle itself sets a lower ceiling: image_urls caps at five images per request, 64 MiB each, suggesting the web app's stated limit has not synced with the API that powers it. Genjutsu Restyle does not appear on fal.ai or Replicate, the two outside hosts where Higgsfield has listed other models before.

Runway's Aleph is the closest rival feature: it restyles existing footage from a text prompt and an optional reference image while preserving camera movement, per Runway's help center. Aleph runs at 15 credits per second and caps one generation at 5 seconds and a 64 MB upload, well short of Restyle's 30-second, 200 MiB ceiling.

Genjutsu Restyle is live now on Higgsfield's web app, under Video, and through the Higgsfield API and MCP; API access needs a key from open.higgsfield.ai.