Top 4 ways to animate your images with AI

Hey, everyone! Thank you for tuning in again on this beautiful sunny, winter day (at least it's winter for us ˜12% of global population living on the southern hemisphere).

Let's talk animating images today

Images we will be animating

We will start with a midjourney prompt:

cgi pixar 3d render of a humanoid pilot fox --ar {1:1, 3:2, 2:3}  --s 100

For those of you who are midjourney-ignorant, I'm basically asking for what's written, in 3 different aspect ratios (1:1, 3:2, and 2:3), and using the default level of stylization (--s 100). My results were:

Tool #1: LeiaPix

LeiaPix is pretty straightforward to use, but if you want a quick 40s tutorial, jump from 0:26 to 1:06 on this video (I'll be referring him again on this video, so just keep the link open, ideally).

Choosing #2 of the horizontal images, we get:

Tool #2: Pika (yeah, portuguese speakers, pika)

Pika is still in Beta as of this writing, but if you apply on the site above you can pretty much expect 1-2 days to get access. It's discord-based, so if you dislike midjourney, you will dislike this one too. But, if you don't, let's see what it makes this image turn into:

Using the prompt:

pilot fox

Check how to use by watching from 1:57 to 2:47 on this video.

We get:

Tool #3: Kaiber

Kaiber: learn how to use it on 8:30 to 9:53 on this video. Let's start from this image this time:

This one changed style A LOT, even with me trying to keep it as a 3D Render.

And, by the way, this was the one that took the longest.

Check it out (I had to keep it as an .mp4 cause the gif version was too heavy) :

Tool #4: Runwayml

You know the drill by now: see how it's done here, from 9:55 till the end.

Let's have fun with it! Starting with this image:

This one somehow ended up the least coherent of all, lol. Check it out:

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