Animated Drawings

Animated Drawings is a browser-based research demo from Meta that turns a hand-drawn character into a short animation. Users upload a drawing of a single character, and the system analyzes the figure, identifies its body and joints, allows corrections to the detected character and pose, and then applies preset motion to create an animated result. The official demo is designed primarily around human-like drawings with clearly separated arms and legs.

The technology behind the project builds on research into automatically animating children’s drawings of human figures. The accompanying open-source project can also support more advanced workflows, including rendering animations, exporting MP4 and GIF files, correcting annotations, adding multiple characters, and using background images through configuration files.

Animated Drawings is especially useful as an accessible creative experiment because the browser demo removes the need to manually rig a character or work directly with animation software. However, the official website clearly identifies it as a research demo, restricts commercial use, and warns that AI-generated results may be inaccurate. The open-source repository was archived in September 2025, so users should not expect ongoing repository maintenance.