How to Create a Viral Christmas Ad Where the Grinch Steals Your Product

Want to create a viral Christmas commercial for any product — perfume, cosmetics, gadgets, jewelry, fashion — where the Grinch steals it right off the tree?

With ZenCreator, you can build this entire story using AI: from a beautiful product-in-ornament shot to a cinematic video where the Grinch crashes the scene and snatches the item.

Step 1 — Generate a Product-in-Ornament Image

Open the Text-to-Image tool and select the Nano Banana model.

Write a prompt that places your product inside a Christmas glass ornament.

Here's the exact example used in our demo (you can replace the product with yours):

A clear glass Christmas ball ornament hanging on a fir branch with a metallic crimped cap and red ribbon; inside, a tiny snowy diorama with gentle micro-snow swirling (snow-globe effect). Center stage: a pristine miniature Miss Dior perfume on a minimalist pedestal inside a glass ball, logo Dior on the pedestal sharp and readable. Two small fir trees and a few red gift boxes frame the product, soft frost on edges. Hyper-real details, shallow depth of field, warm fairy-lights bokeh, cinematic editorial lighting, controlled specular highlights, 85mm, f/2.0, premium holiday mood, no text, no watermark.

You can freely adapt this prompt to:

• change the product (any brand or item)
• adjust colors and materials
• add more decorations
• switch mood from cozy to dramatic

Select your preferred number of images and aspect ratio (9:16 for Reels / 16:9 for YouTube / 4:5 for Instagram).

Click Generate.

Choose the best image and save it — this will be the base for your video.

Step 2 — Animate the Scene with Image-to-Video

Open the Image-to-Video tool.

Upload your generated ornament image.

Select:

• Model: Kling 2.5
• Duration: 5 or 10 seconds
• Aspect ratio: match your target platform

Enter a prompt describing the action. Here is the exact example used in the demo video:

A 4K cinematic close-up, 24 fps. A clear glass Christmas ornament hangs from a red ribbon, containing only a tiny bottle of Chanel perfume, perched on a white pedestal with falling snow. The Grinch's green, furry hand with long black nails enters from the left, aggressively grabs the ornament with one hand, squeezes and shatters the glass (120 fps for 1 second), instantly snatches the miniature perfume bottle from the falling shards and snow, then quickly pulls the hand holding the perfume completely out of frame to the left. After this, the frame clears, leaving only a warm, golden Christmas bokeh background, perfect hand physics, dramatic highlighting, shallow depth of field, lens flare, rich, festive colors, and no extraneous objects.

Click Generate.

Your viral Christmas ad clip is ready.

Final Result

You now have:

• a premium holiday product shot
• a cinematic destruction + theft moment
• a humorous, memorable storyline
• a scroll-stopping Christmas ad

All created without filming, props, or VFX teams.

How to Expand Into a Full Christmas Story

You can easily turn this into a series or longer video:

• create multiple ornaments with different products
• generate several Grinch "theft" scenes
• add other characters (elves, fairies, magical creatures)
• show escalation: one product to many stolen gifts
• end with a brand reveal or message

Just describe each scene clearly in the prompts.

Why This Format Works So Well

• instantly recognizable Christmas mood
• strong emotional hook (surprise + humor)
• product is clearly visible
• perfect for Reels, TikTok, Shorts, and YouTube Ads
• works for any product category