AI Studio · Motion transfer

Free AI Motion Swap

Put any character into any motion. Upload a character image and a short reference video, and the AI copies the movement and pose onto your character — the dance trend, the action, the moves. Free, no sign-up, in your browser.

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Launch the motion swap engine

Upload a clear character image and a short driving video, then generate. This is a heavy model on shared GPU — the first launch warms up the GPU, and a few seconds of video take a minute or two to render.

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Motion transfer is powered by an embedded open model (Wan Animate 2) hosted on Hugging Face. Your image and video go straight to the engine. Only use characters and footage you have the right or consent to use — you're responsible for what you create.

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🧍 Clear character

Use a sharp, front-facing image of a single character with the whole body visible where possible — it maps far more cleanly than a busy or cropped photo.

💃 Clean driving video

Pick a clip with one clearly visible person and obvious, full-body motion against a simple background — the clearer the pose, the better the transfer.

⏳ Keep it short

A 3-second clip takes around 90 seconds to render, so start short to preview the result before committing to a longer video.

How it works

Your character, someone else's moves

No rigging, no keyframes — just a picture and a reference clip.

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Upload your character

Drop in a clear image of the person or character you want to animate.

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Add a driving video

Upload a short clip showing the motion — a dance, a wave, an action — you want copied.

3

Generate & download

The AI transfers the motion onto your character and gives you a video to download.

Guide

Getting a clean motion swap

Motion swap works by reading the pose and movement out of your driving video — the position of the body frame by frame — and then re-rendering your character performing that exact motion. The two inputs both matter: a clean character image gives the model a clear subject to animate, and a clear driving clip gives it an unambiguous motion to copy.

For the character, use a sharp, front-facing image of one subject, ideally with the full body in frame and a simple background. For the driving video, pick a clip with a single, clearly visible person and strong, readable movement — a dance trend, a gesture, a walk — against an uncluttered background. Fast, blurry or crowded footage is much harder for the model to follow.

Because this rebuilds every frame on a shared GPU, it's one of the heavier tools here: keep the driving clip to a few seconds, and expect the first run to wait for the GPU to warm up. Free visitors share a daily GPU allowance, so if you see a "quota exceeded" note, come back a little later or try again with a shorter clip.

FAQ

Common questions

What is Motion Swap? +

It takes a still character image and a driving video, then transfers the movement and pose from the video onto your character — so your character performs the same dance or action.

What do I need to use it? +

A clear image of the character you want to animate, and a short reference video showing the motion. A clean, front-facing character and a clip with one clearly visible person work best.

How long does it take? +

It's heavy — a 3-second clip takes roughly 90 seconds, and 5-6 seconds around 150 seconds, plus the first GPU warm-up. Keep the driving video short to preview.

It says the GPU quota is exceeded. +

The engine runs on free shared GPU (ZeroGPU), which gives anonymous visitors a few minutes a day. If you hit the limit, come back later, or open the underlying model on Hugging Face and sign in free for more time.

Need a character to animate?

Generate one with the free AI Image Generator, or make a talking version with the Talking Avatar.