Animated Drawings
Your kid's doodle, walking
Latest: Open-source release April 2023; demo live at sketch.metademolab.com
FAIR's system that automatically rigs and animates children's drawings of human figures. The public demo (late 2021) went viral; in April 2023 Meta open-sourced the code under MIT plus the Amateur Drawings dataset of 178,000+ annotated sketches — collected, with consent, from demo uploads. Published in ACM Transactions on Graphics.
Why it matters
A rare FAIR project that went viral with the public: upload a child's drawing and it rigs and animates the figure. Consented demo uploads became the 178,000-sketch Amateur Drawings dataset, and the MIT-licensed code, published in ACM Transactions on Graphics, shows how a research demo can double as a data engine.
Facts
- About 13k GitHub stars.
- Some 3.2 million people uploaded ~6.7 million images to the demo; the team wanted 10,000 drawings and got over 3 million, distilling 178,166 into a first-of-its-kind dataset.
Try it yourself
Animate a drawing (official demo) ↗ Code on GitHub ↗ Amateur Drawings annotations (JSON download) ↗
Sources
GitHub · AnimatedDrawings ↗Live demo ↗dl.acm.org ↗