These 6 AI Animated Video Makers Generate the Best Animations

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These 6 AI Animated Video Makers Generate the Best Animations

Last Updated: 2025. 01. 13

Hi, all tech savvies. We understand how eager you feel like generating studio-quality animations of your own. Yet, AI animation generators are still relatively new. Not any of them can create natural, vivid, cinematic animated videos.

This guide can save you at least 3 hours of comparison. We tested over 20 AI animated video makers. And the following 6 turned out to be the best in terms of generation speed, quality. Let’s dive right in!

The List of the Best 6 AI Animation Generators

Sora Turbo creates cinematic animations in any length and seamlessly blends different scenes.

Runway turns an image or a simple prompt into high-resolution animated videos.

Luma AI generates animated videos with simple prompts for free.

FlexClip makes anime clips with different models and edits them with great ease.

Kling, great combination of high resolution video output, natural movements, and facial expressions.

Hailuo AI creates multiple-scene animations for free.

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What Should Not Except from an AI Text to Animated Video Generator

AI animation generators indeed have made significant strides. Yet there are certain limitations that developers of every AI animated video maker should strive to manage. These are some common unrealistic expectations you should know before turning to any of our recommendations or other AI animation makers.

Human-Like Creativity

You can always expect AI tools to follow all the details of the prompt, but they still lack of nuanced creativity of a real animation creator. From what we have tested, AI sometimes adds unrelated elements to the output, for instance, a lotus flower in a snowy scene, which doesn’t make sense.

Perfectly-Polished Animation

Natural movements are what most people expect from AI animations. However, we must say that AI doesn’t understand the real world. You may always encounter awkward facial expressions, stiff or unnatural movements, especially for more complex actions like gym animations.

100% Originality

To ensure a smooth and faster generation process, AI animation tools come with assets and templates, thus they can’t guarantee that all content is free of copyright issues. Please be careful of using AI-generated animations for commercial purposes.

1. Sora Turbo

Specification

Video Output Quality: Up to 1080P.

Speed: 360P, 10-second video takes only 20 seconds, but the generation process can take longer as you select higher quality.

Realism: 8.5/10

Pricing: Starts from $20, 50 generations per month.

Sora Turbo isn’t just an average AI animation tool. It is a cutting-edge animation maker that transforms static images, detailed prompts, or a normal video into fluid animations, with minimum unnatural movements, and facial expressions.

The biggest surprise from Sora Turbo is the editing feature. Most people discard the generation output or stick to the less satisfying one, but Sora Turbo makes sure you always get the result you want. You can enter text to replace certain elements of the animation, or isolate the best frames and extend them.

Sora Interface

My Personal Experience with Sora Turbo

As of the last update of this article, Sora Turbo has only been released for 4 weeks. Yet, we became big fans of Sora Turbo the moment we used it. It doesn’t only generate high-resolution, satisfying animations with the help of advanced AI algorithms and text-based editing features, but also allows you to enter multiple prompts to create an animation movie of any length you love.

Among all the editing features, we love the Blend feature the most. Sora Turbo can mix two unrelated videos. Here is a great example from Sora’s official website. The falling snowflakes gradually turn into petals, symbolizing the transition from winter to spring.

Sora Blending Feature Example

Pros of Using Sora Turbo

Sora Turbo can work as a professional animation studio that creates animated videos with perfect details, and any length you like.

You can create animated videos in different styles like 2D, 3D, catering to a wide range of creative needs.

Sora Turbo adds C2PA metadata to the output to make sure AI is always used properly.

Cons of Using Sora Turbo

If you are seeking niche animation styles, its limitations may get quite obvious.

Sora Turbo is much more expensive than other AI animation makers. You should pay at least $0.5 for each generation.

2. Runway

Specification

Video Output Quality: 720P

Speed: 10-second video generation takes only 90 seconds

Realism: 8/10

Pricing: Free with watermark. To remove the watermark or access the Text to Animation feature, subscription plan starts from $12 per month

Runway is doubtlessly the dominating AI image, video, audio generation tool. As for animation generation, you can stick to the free Alpha Turbo mode to generate animated videos with images, or upgrade to enjoy the Alpha mode for highest-fidelity video generation.

No matter what your animation prompt is, Gen-3 will always show its ability to maintain the same artistic style and create videos with smooth camera movements. Meanwhile, Gen-3 pays attention to small details like the water flows, hair, adding realism and reducing hallucinations.

Runway AI Interface

My Personal Experience with Runway

Frankly, I am a little disappointed by the image-to-video tool. Upload a referral image, and enter the prompt, Runway only adds basic camera movement to the image, instead of actually animating the elements in the image. Even if it does, the hallucinations are quite distinguishable. The moving object is twisted, and gets a weird look. The only way to get the best results via Runway’s AI image-to-video tool is via uploading a sequence of referral images.

Things are much better if you switch to the text-to-video model. Runway creates quite realistic views based on your prompt. Even though Runway is still struggling with certain elements like crowds, complicated human movements, I can still say that film makers can use it to generate dreamy, drone footage like sky, sea, mountains.

Pros of Using Runway’s AI Animation Maker

Runway utilizes the most advanced AI technology to reduce hallucinations and generate the most realistic animation clips.

Inside Runway’s image-to-video tool, you have editing tools like AI voiceover, trim, add camera movement to refine your animation clip.

Runway has 13 extra video editing features, like background removal, inpainting, color grade, video to video.

Cons of Using Runway’s AI Animation Maker

If you are using Runway’s text-to-video tool, you won’t be able to access the editing features like change camera movement, add voiceover.

Runway’s AI animation video generation tool is resource-intensive. Lower-end computers may suffer from lagging or crashing issues.

Luma AI

Specification

Video Output Quality: 720P

Speed: 5-second video generation takes less than 30 seconds

Realism: 7.5/10

Pricing: Free for all. No watermark in the animation output

Luma AI was once known as a quality 3D scene and model creation tool. Now you can create videos in all styles, including animation, starting with a simple prompt or image. Most importantly, video generation from Luma AI is free! You don’t have to pay a penny to get a high-quality shot.

My Experience with Luma AI

Simplicity is my first impression to Luma AI. I mean this tool is not relatively simple than others, even a primary school student can use it. There is an input box in the middle of the page where you can enter prompts, or upload referral images. And all animated videos you created will be listed below the search bar.

The significant downside of simplicity is short of features. You can’t edit the AI tools, or even setup camera movement, video duration, quality, etc. The quality is hugely rely on the prompts. Yet, it is possible to extend the AI animation.

Luma AI Animation Maker Interface

Pros of Using Luma AI Animation Maker

Free, and easy to catch up with to generate an animated video.

Generate animated videos wherever you like, because Luma AI works across computer as well as mobile devices.

Luma AI does a great job in creating 3D scenes. When used to generate animations, you can get great results for buildings, game scenes.

Cons of Using Luma AI Animation Maker

The extended AI animation clips may not really match the first clip.

It is short of editing features to fine-tone the AI animation.

FlexClip

Specification

Video Output Quality: 1080P

Speed: 5-second video generation in 5 minutes

Realism: 7.5/10

Pricing: One-second video generation takes 5 credits, and 300 credits cost $9.99

After the successful AI text-to-image tool and photo-to-anime tool, and there it is, FlexClip’s brand new AI video generator tool. It understands your prompts, and turns simple text or any anime image into natural animated clips.

My Experience with FlexClip

Well, FlexClip’s AI Video Generator tool doesn’t surprise me at first. It has only the most basic options like mode, ratio, duration, no matter you are at Text to Video or Image to Video tool. Yet they kindly put a prompt guide in the text box so that you can write the best prompts for animated video generation. The results are amazing. I mean you can barely notice the imperfections from the output and the movement is pretty natural, if you are in the Professional mode.

Animation experts, don’t stick to the AI video generator tool! There are tons of other AI tools to make you work more effectively! The AI text-to-speech tool generates the most natural voiceover for your animation. The AI photo to 3D animation tool turns your anime photo into a 3D video. You can even use the editor panel to trim, cut, flip, crop the animation video with ease! Embrace the future of anime creation!

FlexClip Animation Maker Interface

Pros of Using FlexClip

You have access to a series of animation tools that can speed up creation in a way that’s easier than ever!

Ultra HD animation quality, as well as low hallucination, these two features are quite rare in the market.

Extra video editing tools like editing, cropping, adding captions, intros help you create a long animated video.

Cons of Using FlexClip

If you want to generate really cool animations, you must use the Professional Mode, which means spending more tokens.

FlexClip can’t be used to extend the animation output, or use several referral images to create an animation.

Kling

Specification

Video Output Quality: 720P

Speed: 5-second video generation in 7 minutes

Realism: 6/10

Pricing: Comes with a free version. Subscription starts from $79.2 per year.

Kling is a trustworthy companion for those who seek ways to bring ideas to life easily. With great customization in terms of generation models, time duration, camera movements, you can explore endless animation possibilities.

Kling Animation Maker Interface

My Experience with Kling

Kling AI did catch my attention at first. Their development team manually selected the best results and added them to the main page. However, the text-to-video tool left me with some disappointment. The output contains lots of morphing, blurring, and all sorts of problems. It took me several times to get a great animation output.

The biggest problem is, Kling just doesn’t follow your prompts, especially when you enter a very detailed prompt. Some keywords are just missed out.

Pros of Using Kling’s Animation Generator

Kling is the right choice if you have a tight budget. $72.9 subscription price is quite reasonable for a great AI animation maker.

Kling AI supports multiple languages, including English, Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese. You will not encounter any language barriers.

Cons of Using Kling’s Animation Generator

The generation speed is not stable if you are a free user. A 5-second video can take 7 minutes to 24 hours. Subscribers don’t have this problem.

There is a huge room for improvement in terms of video realism, style, and editing features.

Hailuo AI

Specification

Video Output Quality: 720P

Speed: 5-second video generation takes less than 5 seconds

Realism: 7.5/10

Pricing: Free for all.

Hailuo AI is another attempt to make AI video creation completely free. Compared with the animation generation, it is better at coming up with realistic scenes, but that also means its animation outputs contain fewer unnatural movements and morphing.

My Experience with Hailuo AI

Hailuo AI generates awesome animations, even better than that of Kling AI. No matter what prompt I input, Hailuo AI always makes the details more realistic. Yet, not following the guidance is a common issue of all Chinese AI animation creators.

Hailuo AI Animation Maker

Pros of Using Hailuo AI

Hailuo AI generates animated videos for free without any limitations. Create as many animations as you want!

Hailuo AI has extra audio creation options, helping adding natural voiceover to the AI animation you generated.

Cons of Using Hailuo AI

All animation output may contain some blurriness outside the key elements.

The quality of the animation output really depends on the internet.

The Bottom Line

Whether you are a professional animator or a constant creator looking to elevate your videos, the 6 tools will cater to all skill levels and save lots of time and effort. Even though they are not perfect now, they are getting better every day.

There will be better AI animation tools merging in the market and we will not stop reviewing them. Please do come back often for new updates.