Glossy tropical fish and water bursting out of an old computer monitor. A dewdrop on a blade of grass refracting a blue sky. Bubbles drifting over a glass-skyscraper city. Frutiger Aero is the bright, optimistic late-2000s look where nature and technology live in perfect harmony, the era of Windows Vista wallpapers, the Aqua glass interface, and early iPhone and Nintendo Wii menus. It is back everywhere on TikTok and YouTube, and the Frutiger Aero template ships the whole aesthetic as one click on EmpirioLabs.
Frutiger Aero is a style, not a single scene. The high-gloss wet look, the bright Windows-Vista blue and lime-green palette, the bloom and lens flares, the crystal-clear water and tropical fish and bubbles, and the skeuomorphic glass interface touches are all baked in. You just describe what you want to see. Fish pouring out of a glowing monitor, a clownfish reef, glossy glass app icons floating over a green field, or dolphins leaping under a rainbow. The look stays locked to that clean 2000s nature-and-tech gloss.
See Frutiger Aero in action
How to generate Frutiger Aero videos on EmpirioLabs
You need an EmpirioLabs account with active credits.
Step 1: Open the playground
Sign in to platform.empiriolabs.ai, click Playground, and switch to a video model. Frutiger Aero recommends Seedance 2.0 Pro.
Step 2: Open the Templates picker
Click Templates. Filter by Viral or search for Frutiger Aero.
Step 3: Pick Frutiger Aero and describe the scene
Click the Frutiger Aero card. Describe the scene you want, or click one of the suggested chips: fish and water bursting out of an old monitor, a clownfish reef, a dewdrop on grass, glossy glass app icons over a green field, puffy clouds over green hills, floating soap bubbles, a glass sphere holding a tiny world, or dolphins leaping under a rainbow.
Step 4: Generate
Hit Send. Generation typically takes 60 to 180 seconds, and gentle ambient audio is generated with the video. For the full nostalgic feel, drop a dreamy ambient or chillout track over the clip in your editor of choice.
Frutiger Aero images and wallpapers
There is also a Frutiger Aero image template for crisp 16:9 wallpapers and stills. In the playground, switch to an image model like Seedream 5.0 Lite, open Templates, and pick Frutiger Aero from the Image tab. The same scenes work, rendered as glossy desktop-wallpaper stills.
Using the Frutiger Aero template via the API
curl https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1/videos/generations \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $EMPIRIOLABS_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"template": "frutiger-aero", "prompt": "Tropical fish and water bursting out of an old computer monitor in a sunlit room"}'For a still wallpaper, post to the images endpoint with the image template:
curl https://api.empiriolabs.ai/v1/images/generations \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $EMPIRIOLABS_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"template": "frutiger-aero-image", "prompt": "A glass sphere holding a tiny glossy world of hills and a city"}'Pricing
Seedance 2.0 Pro starts at $1.50 for a 5-second 720p clip. The Frutiger Aero image template starts at $0.035 per image on Seedream 5.0 Lite. Frutiger Aero video also supports Seedance Fast, Wan 2.7, Wan 2.6, Kling O3, Kling 3.0 Turbo, Happy Horse, Pixverse, and MOSS Video+Audio. Full pricing on the pricing page.
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