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by vunderba 535 days ago
Meta put out a pretty popular post back in 2021 around using AI to animate children's drawings.

I believe it focuses more around using masks to build out a "rigging" to animate them.

https://about.fb.com/news/2021/12/using-ai-to-animate-childr...

https://fairanimateddrawings.com

Conversely, sounds like this is just feeding directly into the Kling API though. I'd say pricing is going to be the roughest aspect since they're definitely not cheap.

To add to this - Kling's I2V model (even as of v1.6) is pretty inconsistent when it comes to 2D imagery - even in your cherry picked examples they're unfortunately morphing all over the place. Since you have no control over the model or even the end result outside of minimal positive/negative prompts, I think you'll find prospective customers getting potentially frustrated.

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Following those links lead to this website based free solution

https://sketch.metademolab.com/

You can upload a picture and have it animate it. Not quite the same or as impressive but still might be fun and it's free

>even in your cherry picked examples they're unfortunately morphing all over the place

they're kids doodles. being a bit wonky is part of the charm, i think its a great use case for where ai animation is at the moment.

If this was wedding photos we'd have a problem :D