Make an animation

The result page

While the animation is made you can watch the stages. When it is ready, the page shows the result on a ped and holds both downloads.

While it is being made

After Generate, AI Animations opens the animation's page and follows the job through four stages: Queued, Extracting motion, Retargeting and Packaging. Most animations are ready within about five minutes; the example took under four.

You can leave the page. The animation keeps going and waits in My animations under Animations.

The 3D preview

When the animation is ready, the page shows your source clip next to the Rigged preview: the result on a GTA ped.

A finished animation: the name, duration and cost at the top, then the source video, the rigged 3D preview and the ready state side by side.

The rigged preview of a finished animation: a GTA ped dancing, the switch between Original, Loop and Ping-pong, the model picker and the Share video button.

With seamless loop, switch between Original, Loop and Ping-pong to compare the three clips.
The model button picks the ped. It starts with a ped that matches the person in the clip; any other works too, because all human peds share the skeleton.
Drag inside the preview to turn it.

The example clip after conversion: the same dance on a GTA ped, played as the seamless Loop clip.

Share video records the preview as a short video in your browser. When it is ready, Share now hands it to your device's share menu or downloads it, and a link button copies an address that plays the clip wherever you paste it. Your recorded clips collect under Saved videos.

The downloads

Two buttons download the two versions. Each shows the chat command and the size.

The two downloads of a finished animation, In-place with three clips and Walking, each with its chat command.

Below them, How to use it in-game lists the install steps and, for every clip, the chat command and a line for Menyoo, each with a copy button.

The top of the How to use it in-game panel: the three install steps, then the chat command and the Menyoo line of the first clip, each with a copy button.

The page stays in My animations, so you can download again at any time. Next: play it in game.

Rebuild or rename

Rebuild or rename runs the saved motion through the current engine again. It is free and takes about 30 seconds. Use it to rename the animation, to add the loop clips, or to pick up improvements. When the engine has improved since your animation was made, the page says Improved animation engine available with an Update now button.

The Rebuild animation dialog: free, with the in-game name field and the Seamless loop switch.

Careful

A new name changes the chat command and the clip names. Install the new downloads and update any script or menu that used the old name.

Edit it or add a prop

Two follow-ups sit under the downloads:

Edit animation opens the animation editor, where you trim the clip, split it into several clips, change the speed and smooth out jitter. Exporting the edit costs 250 credits.
Add a prop to this animation puts an object in the ped's hands, placed live on the running animation, for 500 credits.