Meta Has Created A New Tool To Animate Your Child's Drawings Using AI

I tried Animated Drawings with a doodle of my own -- I draw like a child anyway -- and it worked: the tool correctly identified the character and its joints (although I had the option to tweak the rigging manually). Twenty seconds after I'd uploaded it, my doodle was hopping and moonwalking with abandon. This breakthrough has implications for automated animation of other things -- after all, abstraction is not restricted to children, as many great animated films demonstrate. The Meta AI team certainly sees more possibilities ahead: "By teaching AI to work effectively with this quintessential human form of creativity, we hope this project will move us closer to building AI that can understand the world from a human point of view." Animation is becoming increasingly important to Meta, which is positioning itself as a flagbearer for the metaverse.