Animated Drawings

What Animated Drawings is

Animated Drawings is a free tool from Meta's FAIR research team. It detects the character in a hand-drawn image, rigs it automatically and applies preset motions such as jumping, walking and dancing.

It runs in the browser and suits education, children's creativity and quick motion prototyping rather than production animation.

What you can do with it

• Animate a hand-drawn character image
• Apply preset movements
• Demonstrate animation concepts in class
• Prototype simple character motion

Who it is for

• Educators and classrooms
• Families and children
• Designers prototyping motion cheaply

What to watch out for

• Preset motions only; custom animation requires other tools
• Detection works differently across drawing styles
• Research project; availability and features can change
• Rights on the original drawing stay with the artist