AI Researchers Have Unleashed A Flood Of Character Animation Projects Over The Last Week

To summarize the progress in using AI to create animated characters over the last two weeks: The pace of open source AI innovation was speedy, and then it got faster and then it went parabolic and after that it went exponential.

First, Magic Animate dropped on December 4th

The tidal wave of generative AI innovation began when the magic-animate project was released, offering the ability to make characters dance realistically from a still image. It was rapidly made available via several end-points on Replicate such as this and this.

Except something weird came next.

Magic Animate was just the beginning.

What was once a “highly notable release” was soon drowned out by comparative new advancements offering equally amazing if not even better performance.

Over the course of the 8 days following Magic Animate, we got the following drops:

Next, we got the following:

• AnimateZero
• DreaMoving
• W.A.L.T.
• Generative Rendering by Adobe
• WonderJourney
• MoveAI shipped an update to enable realtime animation
• A release for “Gaussian Avatar” animation
• StyleCrafter for text-to-video animation

Once again,

THIS IS IN THE SPACE OF 8 DAYS.