The world of 3D animation has undergone a remarkable transformation in recent years, thanks to the advent of innovative AI tools that have simplified the process of modeling, rigging, and animating ...

On Tuesday, Stability AI released Stable Video Diffusion, a new free AI research tool that can turn any still image into a short video—with mixed results. It’s an open-weights preview of two AI models ...

Alibaba’s Tongyi Wanxiang team has open-sourced Wan2.2-Animate, a model that can animate a single photo into video sequences. It supports motion imitation, where a subject’s actions and expressions ...