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AI Animation: Motion Synthesis and Frame Interpolation

AI-driven animation techniques rely on optical flow estimation, motion prediction, and generative sequence modeling to synthesize realistic movement between keyframes.

Key animation models utilize:

  • Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) and LSTMs – Used in motion prediction by learning temporal dependencies between frames.
  • Transformer-Based Video Generation – Handles long-range dependencies in animation, leveraging self-attention for motion consistency.
  • Optical Flow-Based Interpolation – Predicts intermediate frames between two images using vectorized motion estimation (e.g., DeepFlow and RAFT).

AI-generated animation is used in video upscaling, frame rate enhancement (e.g., DAIN for slow-motion synthesis), and deep-learning-driven motion synthesis for game and film production.