Animate Photos with Dance Moves
Turn any photo of a person into a short dancing video for social content, reels, and marketing campaigns.
Create Chibi-Style Animations
Convert any photo or character into an animated chibi figure for fan art, games, and community content.
Tool
Chibi characters — oversized heads, expressive eyes, compact bodies — are a staple of fan communities, gaming apps, and anime-adjacent marketing. Creating a chibi from scratch requires illustration skill and animation time that most creators and small studios do not have on hand.
Character Animator generates animated chibi versions from any input photo or character illustration, applying the proportional style and expressive movement that makes chibi content immediately recognizable.
Fan artists use this to create shareable community content. Game studios use it to prototype chibi variants of existing characters before commissioning final artwork. Brands use it to create mascot content that appeals to gaming and anime communities.
Agent Guides
Claude
- Connect ToolRouter to Claude: claude mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
- Upload the source photo or character design and describe the personality traits you want the chibi to express.
- Run `animate_chibi` through `character-animator` to generate the initial chibi animation.
ChatGPT
- Add ToolRouter to ChatGPT using the MCP JSON configuration: {"mcpServers":{"toolrouter":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","toolrouter-mcp"]}}}
- Provide the character source and describe the chibi animation type needed for each character — idle, victory, defeat.
- Run `animate_chibi` with `character-animator` for each character in the set.
Copilot
- Add ToolRouter to your Copilot MCP configuration: {"mcpServers":{"toolrouter":{"command":"npx","args":["-y","toolrouter-mcp"]}}}
- Upload the source character and specify the animation style and intended platform.
- Run `animate_chibi` through `character-animator` to generate the chibi.
OpenClaw
- Connect ToolRouter to OpenClaw: openclaw mcp add toolrouter -- npx -y toolrouter-mcp
- Define the character set, animation type per character, and shared style parameters before batching.
- Run `animate_chibi` with `character-animator` across the full roster with locked style settings.
Related Use Cases
Transfer Motion Between Characters
Apply the movement from one video to a different character, transferring realistic motion onto illustrations, avatars, or photos.