AI Software to animate images?

[Frimley111R]

Can anyone recommend a piece of software to do this? We just need to an animate some images for social media and other applications but despite Googling it, it is frustratingly challenging to find.

 

[FreddyG]

It all depends on what you want - here's an explaining video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29Toeq0oyM8

 

[SpriteScenes]

Blender is free and open source. Windows, MacOS, or Linux. Download it from:

wwwDOTblenderDOTorg/download/

The following tutorial (courtesy of The Blender Guru) will have you up and running in no time. He demonstrates animation in part 14:

wwwDOTyoutubeDOTcom/watch?v=B0J27sf9N1Y&list=PLjEaoINr3zgEPv5y--4MKpciLaoQYZB1Z&index=2

Third-party AI add-ons are available. They enable you to specify artwork with textual descriptions, visual sketches, or a combination of both. There is a small charge for the images you generate.

Have fun! All the best.

(Sorry about the URLs - I'm not allowed to post links yet.)

 

[Frimley111R]

Just in case anyone is wondering, we went with Fotor, which has lots of tools and got a deal on a year's licence for just £55. I am sure there is free stuff out there but it wasn't worth the time looking.

 

[SpriteScenes]

Just in case anyone is wondering, we went with Fotor, which has lots of tools ...

Thanks for this. I'll use their free photo enhancer to clean up a pile of family photos that I'd like to frame and hang on the walls.

 

[MrRic]

I use Google's Veo3. You get a months free trial to see if it's what you need. After that it's £19 ish per month so I still keep it as I use it a lot

 

[fantheflames]

Just checked out Veo3 and it looks great. OP, it's interesting you went with Fotor! Do you find it good value compared to some of the free tools out there?

 

[Bucko]

Just in case anyone is wondering, we went with Fotor, which has lots of tools and got a deal on a year's licence for just £55. I am sure there is free stuff out there but it wasn't worth the time looking.

Wow - £55 for the year is a bargain - good on you. How is it working out @Frimley111R ?

 

[Frimley111R]

Just checked out Veo3 and it looks great. OP, it's interesting you went with Fotor! Do you find it good value compared to some of the free tools out there?

Honestly, there's loads of free tools out there but often you can only do small amounts of work before you run out of credits and have to pay. There may be ones we could have used for free but it just wasn't worth the time going through them all.

 

[Frimley111R]

Wow - £55 for the year is a bargain - good on you. How is it working out @Frimley111R ?

I know! I thought it was about £130 for the year (software plus extra credits) but one of my team found a deal on it. For about £1 a week we can't go wrong! We've not tried it yet but will do in the next couple of weeks and I'll try to remember to report back.

 

[lynnhancoc]

I really recommend Krea. Enhancing my existing images with Krea has truly elevated them to a whole new level!

 

[Frimley111R]

Wow - £55 for the year is a bargain - good on you. How is it working out @Frimley111R ?

Good so far. Its very early but engagement on socials is up and it is so easy to use. You upload a photo (it can be an Ai one) tell it what you want it to do, for example make person smile and walk towards camera or make traffic move and clouds move and it does it! Takes about a minute each time and then you just download and post. I tried the speaking Ai part of it but it was pretty terrible and the range of voices was limited. Need another tool for that.