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How to animate your characters any way you want with this free AI tool

Erik Knobl
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4 min readMar 27, 2024
Girl created in Midjourney. She will be the animated star of our short videos and GIFs.

Viggle AI is a new AI startup that just launched its new model. It offers to streamline character animation, with a technology that understands real-world physics, making your characters move naturally.

This means we now can have stunning animations in minutes.

Let’s take a quick look:

First, we generate the image of a girl in Midjourney (see above).

Then, we download from Pixabay one video of one person doing the action we want to replicate (You can also film yourself, or use any video):

Man surprised

Apply the magic of Viggle AI, and we get this:

The girl on the right imitates everything the man does, even though she is fully AI-generated. She even blinks naturally.

This is good stuff.

Ok. Let’s review the process step by step.

1. Access Viggle AI

Viggle AI is currently in beta, and you can access it for free by joining their Discord channel. Everything happens there, there is no website yet.

2. Learn the basic commands

Once inside, go to one of the Animate channels in the Creator section. There, you have access to the following options with these commands:

/character: Use this command to create a character based on your text prompt, select an image from four results, and then you can describe the motion you want your character to do.

/ideate: This command lets you create the full-character video purely from text, without the need to upload an image. Describe the character you want to create and the motion you want…

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Erik Knobl
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🤖🎬 AI Video Educator + Creator | Midjourney Art | RunwayML AI Videos

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