Animated Drawings by Meta is a free AI research demo from Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab that animates hand-drawn characters. Users upload a sketch of a single human-like figure — ideally on a plain, unlined background — and the tool uses computer vision models built on Detectron2 and AlphaPose, with motion data from the CMU Graphics Lab and Mixamo, to detect the figure, separate it from the background, and estimate its pose.
After the AI segments the character and places joints on its limbs and head, users can correct the bounding box, segmentation mask, and joint positions before choosing a motion from a library of presets such as walking, jumping, waving, and dancing. The finished animation can be downloaded as a video or animated GIF and shared on social media or used in personal projects.
The demo is completely free with no account or subscription required, and it is designed for personal, non-commercial use — it is a research demo, not a commercial animation platform. The underlying code is open source on GitHub, though the repository was archived in September 2025 and is no longer actively maintained.
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