Free Online AI Image Animator: Animate Photos with Natural Motion
Animate photos easily and quickly with our free online AI image animator. Turn still photos into realistic, cinematic animations with prompts or preset video templates. Bring life to your old photos, portrait pictures, landscape images and more.
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Convert Any Photo to Vivid, Cinematic Videos
Make a picture move and quickly see it come to life with our AI picture animator. No complex video production skills are required to create a vivid, cinematic short video.
Animate Portrait Photo
Use Fotor as a face photo animator to change a still portrait photo to a realistic AI talking avatar or a hilarious face dance video.
Animate Family Photo
Our AI photo animation maker allows you to turn your family portrait into a warm hugging scene or your couple photo into a cinematic kissing video.
Animate Old Photo
Our AI picture animator can apply dynamic visual effects to animate cherished memories, revisit your younger days or relive faded moments naturally.
Animate Pet Photo
Try our animate image AI to bring your loved pet to life with expressive motion and personality, such as natural blinking, head movement or playful actions.
Animate Landscape Photo
Transform still scenery into a vivid, living visual experience, making the elements like clouds, water, sunlight, fog, or trees move naturally and vividly.
Animate Product Photo
Set your still product photos in natural motion and create innovative and unique video for your marketing campaigns.
How to Animate a Picture with Fotor?
Step 1: Upload Your Photo
Click "Upload Photo" button to add a photo that you want to add animations.
Step 2: Animate Your Photo
Choose the desired AI model and enter your prompt or pick your preferred video template to make your picture move in the wanted way.
Step 3: Preview and Download
Preview the animated photo and export it in high-quality MP4 and with no watermark.
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Powerful AI Models to Create Cinematic Videos from Photos
Our AI image-to-video maker is powered by advanced AI video models like Seedance, Kling 3.0 and Google Veo 3.1. So, you can easily convert your still photo to a dynamic video with up to 1080p resolution and 10-second duration via your prompt. With Fotor’s help, you can create a stunning video with cinematic visual effect, natural audio and great character consistency.
Preset AI Video Templates for Creative Storytelling
Fotor also offers various AI video templates that enable you to transform your images into creative scenes ready for joining popular AI trends on social media. Explore our templates, from AI kiss, AI hug, AI fight and AI dance to trending fisheye lens, Ghibli transformation and AI boyfriend, to give your photo a creative dynamic story with just one click.
Animate Photos with our Amazing Motion Control Feature
Instead of applying random movement, our motion control feature allows the subject in your photo to vividly imitate the movement in your reference video. So, you can be your own director and make engaging, professional-quality short videos with greater movement precision and character consistency.
AI Image Animator for Multiple Scenarios
Our AI photo animation tool can add natural and lifelike motion to any of your photos and present attention-grabbing, dynamic visuals tailored for different creative needs. For a content creator, use our tool to give your audience fresh stories by animating your favorite anime characters on your social media. For a marketing specialist, conveniently animate product images and launch a creative marketing campaign.
Why Choose Fotor to Animate Photos?
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Easy to Use
Our AI picture animator provides a user-friendly interface without complex settings. Users of all levels can find it effortless to anime images, especially beginners.
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Advanced AI Technology
Our AI photo animator is armed with plenty of advanced AI models, such as Seedance, Kling 3.0 and Google Veo 3.1, adding realistic and natural motion to your still photo with great character consistency and motion precision.
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Multiple Animation Ways
In addition to the AI model option, Fotor offers additional ways to animate photos. Either choose from our preset video templates or make use of our motion control features to see your image come to life.![HD photo editor]()
HD Animation Results
You will get high-quality animation results and download them in high-resolution MP4s without watermarks, which can be directly applied to your personal or creative projects.
