I tested DomoAI—a tool that turns your anime images into animations.
This tool comes with AI image-to-video features, AI character movement features, and more.
I tested all of these, and in this post, I will show you my results. My goal is to figure out if this is the best AI anime generator on the market.
Let’s jump into it!
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Key Features
- Image to Video: Animate static images, turning photos, paintings, or drawings into dynamic videos.
- Video to Video: Convert existing videos into animated styles, including anime and illustration, with over 30 style options.
- Text to Image: Generate images from textual descriptions using AI.
- Image Animation: Convert static images into engaging animations.
- Character Animation: Bring characters to life by applying motion effects based on a base video.
My Results & Experience
Let me share my experience with DomoAI. I’ve extensively tested the paid features to save your time and money.
1. Image to Animation
I started by testing the AI image-to-video feature that turns your images into short animation clips.
To use this feature, sign in and choose the “Animate” tab on the homepage.
Here’s my input image that I sent to DomoAI:
Here are the instructions I gave to it:
If it’s hard to see, I told it to make an Animation of 5 seconds in duration. I used a custom prompt to assist the AI in making a video. You don’t need to do this, but it can help you with results.
Here’s the prompt I used:
A cheerful anime girl with long, flowing reddish-brown hair and animal ears stands under a bright blue sky. Animate her hair gently swaying in the breeze, her eyes blinking occasionally, and a soft smile appearing on her face. Clouds move slowly in the background, and sunlight glimmers subtly on her hair. Include a light camera zoom-in effect for a more immersive, emotional moment. Soft wind sounds or gentle background music can complement the scene.
After about 5 minutes, here’s the result:
Isn’t that cool?
You’ve got to remember that the input was just an image—nothing else.
This tool made it look like a proper animation and kept the character consistent.
However, this was just a 5-second clip. Let’s try another one that’s a bit longer.
Here’s another input image that I sent to DomoAI:
This time, I used this prompt:
A vibrant anime-style girl with flowing reddish-brown hair and a red bow stands under a bright blue sky with scattered clouds. Her sailor-style school uniform flutters gently in the breeze. Animate her hair and ribbon swaying naturally, her eyes blinking softly, and her mouth forming a gentle smile. Add slight head movement, as if she’s reacting to a light breeze or a distant sound. The clouds drift slowly in the background, and treetops sway subtly. Include a soft zoom-in and ambient outdoor sounds for a peaceful, immersive vibe.
Here’s the result I got:
I mean, c’mon! Isn’t that cool? The hair flows in the wind smoothly. The eyes close in a realistic animation style. What a masterpiece!
I know it’s not super long—just 10 seconds, but it’s impressive, I must say.
The last time I tried tools like this, those could only make 1–2 second clips from images.
2. Video to Video AI
Then, I moved on to test the video-to-video feature.
This allows you to enter a video into the tool, and DomoAI will then convert that into, for example, anime-style videos.
First, I tried this feature on a random clip I found online, in which someone is talking to a phone.
To turn this clip into anime, use the video-to-video feature, head to domoai.app/create/video/.
Drop the video to this view. Once the video has been uploaded, tweak the settings and pick a style you want to get back from the AI for your video.
There are many styles to choose from.
I tried the Illustration v1.2 first.
Then change the duration and other settings if you want to.
I changed my clip from 3 seconds to 10 seconds.
Once you’re ready, hit “Generate”.
After about 10 minutes of waiting, I got my results.
Here’s the AI-generated clip:
I love the character consistency in this one. The background still changes a bit, and the fingers too, but those are subtle changes.
Just to compare, here’s the original clip:
I liked it so much that I tried different styles.
Here’s a clip I got with the Anime v5.1 model:
Epic!
And here’s one that I got with the Illustration v9 model:
One thing to notice is that your footage should be stable. Also, with some of these models, you get the best results with half-body shots.
The best place to look for examples is the DomoAI X page.
Because if you just use random shaky footage, it’s not going to perform that well.
For example, here’s a shaky video I shot of myself swimming in a lake:
Now, I wanted to turn this into a cartoon-style animation.
Here’s what I got back:
Well, this one wasn’t good at all…
As a second test, I tried to turn that into anime, but that didn’t work that well either.
Yes, that looks pretty close, but the character doesn’t remain consistent.
However, I must admit that this Van Gogh-style animation turned out to be pretty epic.
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To take home, if you use the video-to-video model, use well-optimized footage.
Use half-body static video shots with minimal movement.
Check the community showcase as your reference to get the best results.
3. Text to Image
Then, I tried the text-to-image feature.
As the name suggests, this AI feature turns text into anime images.
To make it fun, let’s do a comparison between DomoAI and ChatGPT image generators.
First, I told DomoAI to “Create an anime image”.
To my surprise, I didn’t just get one image, but a bunch of them.
Here’s my favorite image I got:
Ok, that’s impressive, I must say.
Here are more images I got from it:
To compare the DomoAI images with ChatGPT-generated ones, here’s what I got from ChatGPT with the same input:
(Yes, it’s the image I just animated earlier in this guide.)
That’s more of a cartoon-style image.
Obviously, I could tweak my prompts on both, but to keep it simple, I’m going to leave it at that. Based on these couple of tests, I can already tell that the images DomoAI creates are much better. This is not a surprise, though, because they’re an AI anime generator.
4. Character Move
Then, I tested the character move feature.
This allows you to take a video (for example, of yourself) and copy the video movements to your character in an image.
To use this feature, you need to sign in and pick the “Move” feature from the Home view.
Here’s a video of a person dancing that I found online:
Now, I’d like to add those dope moves to my anime character I just created.
To do this, I dropped a short 3-second clip I found online of a person dancing. I wanted to make my anime character do the same moves, so I added that image as the character.
After about 8 minutes of waiting, here’s the result I got:
To be fair, that’s not quite what I expected.
There are a couple of characters in the view, and just one is dancing. Also, one is missing a leg.
Let’s see if I give it a simpler task, such as walking, to see what happens.
For example, I found this clip of someone walking:
I think that looks cool, so I want to see how well the AI can copy that walk to my anime character. I dropped the image and the video into the Move feature and waited for about 15 minutes.
Here’s the result:
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Ok, that’s a lot better! I think it’s otherwise just what I wanted, but the character consistency breaks a bit if you take a closer look. The hand movements and clothing seem to change oddly.
However, I think this is so close already.
Also, your mileage may vary.
Lastly, I’m not 100% sure if I’m using it optimally either.
5. Apps
Lastly, you have a bunch of AI apps you can use in DomoAI.
Here’s a quick summary of what these apps do:
- Anime V5.1 Model — Converts your video into detailed anime-style animation.
- Turn your static image into a living video — Animates a photo to create a lifelike moving video.
- Talking Avatar — Makes images talk by adding synced voice and facial motion.
- Voice Cloning (Beta) — Clones your voice or uses text-to-speech with your chosen voice.
- Make your character move with reference video — Animates a character by copying movements from another video.
- Restyle — Transforms your photo into different artistic or pop culture styles.
- 3D Cartoon with Synced Lips — Turns your video into a 3D cartoon character with lip-syncing.
- Fusion Style V2 — Applies various visual styles to your videos.
- Text to Art — Generates artistic images from your text prompts.
- Upscale — Enhances image and video quality to a professional/studio level.
- Illus v9 Model — Converts your video into a stylized 2.5D illustration (partly 3D).
For example, I tried the AI upscaler app that takes low-res images and turns them into higher resolution.
Let’s zoom in a bit:
That’s epic! The image on the left-hand side is blurry and low-res. On the right side, the AI did some magic to make it look a lot better.
Since I already tried the core features, I didn’t test all these apps since they use the same technology. I don’t want to make this one a 2-hour read. But feel free to experiment with them as well.
Notice that you also have an image upscaler app and a voice cloner tool in the mix. While those are outside of the scope of this video, they might be worth experimenting.
Pros
- Easy to use—Just sign up, choose an AI app, and start creating.
- Pretty quick—The tool renders the results in less than 15 minutes (shorter clips way quicker than that).
- Accurate—The anime results are cool! I liked the text-to-animation maker most. It’s a smoothly flowing animation with little to no artifacts. Also, the text-to-image generator was impressive
- Styles—There are lots of anime styles to choose from when creating your images and clips.
- AI Apps—On top of the core features, DomoAI is expanding to different areas, such as AI voice cloning and image upscaling.
Cons
- Video-to-video—To be honest, I was impressed by almost everything but the video-to-video feature. Granted, I might not be the ideal user of this tool since I’m not a huge anime consumer. But the clips that I got aren’t good for anything other than curiosity.
- Some clips render slowly—This tool is fast to my liking, but I think that it’s worth mentioning that some clips can take up to 15 minutes to render. This can feel like a long time for some, so just mentioning it here! 🙂
Pricing
Basic — $6.99/month (billed yearly)
- 500 credits/month (≈500 images or ~30 videos)
- No watermark
- Optional credit top-ups
- 3 parallel fast lanes
- Access to all styles with regular updates
Standard — $19.59/month (billed yearly)
- 1,500 credits/month Fast Mode (≈1,500 images or ~100 videos)
- Unlimited Relax Mode
- No watermark
- Optional credit top-ups
- 3 parallel fast lanes
- Access to all styles with regular updates
Pro — $48.99/month (billed yearly)
- 4,000 credits/month Fast Mode (≈4,000 images or ~267 videos)
- Unlimited Relax Mode
- /video: 20s–30s gen in Fast Mode
- /animate: 10s gen with V2.2 Model
- No watermark
- Optional credit top-ups
- 6 parallel fast lanes
- Access to all styles with regular updates
My Verdict
I’m impressed by DomoAI.
For example, the character animation feature and the text-to-animation tools were super cool. The clips are short, but look so impressive.
Also, for those short clips, the character consistency seems to remain really nice.
The tool is relatively fast, as it only takes 5–10 minutes to get the clips.
The video-to-video feature wasn’t that great on all the clips, but for some, it worked out really nicely, too. You should try it with your own clips to get the best idea.
This tool is not perfect, similar to any other tool I’ve tested.
Feel free to use my above clips and experiences as reference points. However, I recommend trying it out to get the best results and to find the ideal use cases for your needs.
Thus far, I have to say that this one was the best AI anime tool that I’ve come across. I’ve seen similar tools on AI image generation in general, but this one specializes in anime the best.