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Face swap any video online — directly in your browser, no software to install. Two modes: Animate Photo with dance moves, or replace a person in existing video footage. Imagera motion tracking + Imagera Character Engine for realistic motion transfer.
From 60 credits (~$1.85) per 5-second clip · No subscription required
Choose the right mode for your use case: Animate Photo or Replace Character
Your photo copies the dance, action, or movement from a driving video. The background stays as your original image.
How it works:
Upload a photo + a driving video. AI extracts the motion and applies it to your photo while preserving your image's background.
Best for:
Input: Your photo + driving video
Output: Your photo animated with video's motion
Replace the person in a video with your character. The original video's background, lighting, and scene stay intact.
How it works:
Upload a character image + source video. AI swaps the person with your character while preserving the scene's environment and motion.
Best for:
Input: Character image + source video
Output: Original video with your character replacing the person
Both modes use the same Imagera Character Engine with Imagera motion tracking • Same pricing applies
Advanced pose detection and character animation with Imagera motion tracking technology
Advanced AI analyzes reference videos to detect human poses and movements using Imagera motion analysis. Tracks 17 key body points including joints, limbs, and torso for accurate motion capture and realistic character animation.
Upload a character image that will be animated with the detected motion. AI preserves character appearance while applying realistic movement, gestures, and poses from the reference video for seamless animation.
Transfer complex movements including walking, dancing, gesturing, and actions from reference videos to characters. AI maintains motion dynamics, timing, and natural movement flow for lifelike animations.
Image+Video to Video generation using Imagera Character Engine. Combines character image with reference video motion to create professional-quality animated output with smooth transitions and realistic movement.
Generate character animations in 40-60 seconds with optimized AI processing. Quick turnaround for iterative animation work, character testing, and rapid prototyping of movement sequences.
Fine-tune animation quality with adjustable step count, seed values for reproducibility, custom dimensions, and optional prompts to guide the character animation generation process.
From viral TikTok trends to enterprise training
Replace outdated presenter footage without reshooting. Update training videos when employees leave or content changes. Save $2,000-10,000 per reshoot.
Create consistent branded content with AI characters. Test different presenters without hiring talent. Scale video production 10x.
Replace stunt doubles, fix continuity issues, or swap actors in post. Used by indie filmmakers to achieve Hollywood-level effects.
Replace faces in documentary footage, news reports, or witness testimonies. Protect identities while preserving natural movement.
Sync lip movements to dubbed audio in different languages. Create localized versions without reshooting actors.
Animate still photos with realistic movement. Bring historical photos, product images, or illustrations to life.
Pay only for what you use. No subscription required. Viggle & Kling alternative.
60 credits / 5s
60 credits per 5 seconds
Based on Business plan (6,000 credits for $199.99)
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Max 60 seconds per video • No subscription required • View all plans
We're committed to responsible AI. Character replacement requires consent.
Consent is required. Always obtain permission before using someone's likeness. Violations result in account termination. Read our Terms of Service
Honest comparison — every tool has strengths. Here's where Imagera fits.
| Feature | Imagera | Viggle AI | Kling AI | Runway Gen-5 | Pika Labs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | 60 credits per 5s (pay-per-use) | Free tier + paid | $5.99–89.99/mo | $12–95/mo | Subscription |
| Subscription Required? | Not required | Optional | Required | Required | Required |
| Max Video Length | 60 seconds | Short clips | 2+ minutes | 10 seconds | 4 seconds |
| Technology | Imagera motion tracking + Imagera Character Engine | Motion templates | Motion Brush | Generic V2V | Text-to-video |
| Browser-Based? | Yes — no download | ||||
| Custom Character | Any image | Limited | Limited | Limited | |
| Two Modes (Animate + Replace) | |||||
| Best For | Social media, training videos, marketing | Memes, viral clips | Cinema-grade realism | Hollywood VFX | Surreal visuals |
Pricing verified February 2026. Kling excels at cinematic quality. Viggle is best for quick memes. Imagera's advantage: two distinct modes + pay-per-use + 60s videos.
Face swap content grew sharply through 2025, driven by TikTok's "dancing photo" trend and by enterprise adoption for keeping training video current. The wider AI VFX category — which face swap sits inside — has grown with it, as tools that once needed a studio moved into the browser.
Traditional face swap requires desktop software, powerful GPUs, and technical expertise. Tools like DeepFaceLab need NVIDIA GPUs and hours of training per face. Online AI face swap eliminates all of that — upload your image and video, get results in 60 seconds, from any device with a browser. No installation, no GPU requirements, no learning curve.
Unlike generic video-to-video approaches, Imagera uses motion analysis to detect 17 key body points (head, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, ankles) in each frame of the reference video. This skeleton data maps movement precisely to your character's proportions, producing natural-looking motion that respects body mechanics. Combined with Imagera Character Engine, this pipeline improves hands, physical interactions, and motion clarity.
Corporate training teams replace departed employees in existing footage instead of booking a reshoot. Marketing agencies localize a campaign by swapping the presenter for each market rather than filming it again. Creators use it for the photo-dancing trend. Privacy-conscious organizations use face swap for GDPR-compliant anonymization of documentary and news footage.
Traditional motion capture systems (Vicon, Qualisys) cost $200K–$2M. Professional VFX compositing runs $1,000–$50,000 per minute of footage. AI face swap delivers comparable results at $1–$2 per 5 seconds — a 95–99% cost reduction. A full 60-second face swap video costs $12–$24 on Imagera versus thousands in a traditional studio.
Animate characters with motion capture in three steps
Upload the character image you want to animate. This can be an illustrated character, photograph, or any figure you want to bring to life with movement.
Supported formats: JPG, PNG
Upload a reference video showing the movement you want to transfer. Imagera analyzes poses and extracts skeleton tracking data.
60 credits/5s (~$1.85)
The AI combines your character with the detected motion to create a realistic animated video with natural movement in 40-60 seconds.
High-quality video output
Imagera AI Character Replacement swaps faces and transfers motion between characters in videos. Upload a source video and target face to create photorealistic face swaps with natural motion transfer. Browser-based with pay-per-use pricing.
AI Character Replacement Imagera AI Character Replacement uses deep learning to swap faces and transfer body motion between characters in video. Creates seamless, photorealistic results with accurate lighting and expression matching.
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Common questions about AI pose transfer animation
Two modes for different use cases: **Animate Photo (Move Mode)** makes your photo copy the motion from a driving video while keeping your image's background. **Character Replacement (Mix Mode)** swaps the person in a video with your character while keeping the original video's background and scene. Choose Animate Photo for "dancing photo" effects. Choose Character Replacement to update existing video footage with a new person.
AI Character Replacement uses the Imagera Character Engine with Imagera motion tracking to capture human movement from a reference video and apply it to a character image. The AI detects 17 key body points (joints, limbs, torso) and recreates the same poses and movements on your character. You can either animate your photo with the motion (Move Mode) or replace the person in the video (Mix Mode).
Use **Animate Photo (Move Mode)**. This transfers the dance moves from a driving video onto your photo while preserving your image's original background. Perfect for viral content where you want your photo to "come alive" and dance. The 704% growth in face swap content is driven by exactly this use case.
Use **Character Replacement (Mix Mode)**. This replaces the person in your existing training video with a new presenter photo while keeping the original video's background, lighting, and scene intact. Save $2,000-$10,000+ per video that would otherwise require reshooting.
Just 60 credits per 5-second clip at every resolution — a 30-second video is 360 credits. Scale to any length up to 60 seconds, with no subscription required: you pay only for what you create.
You can transfer various types of motion including walking, dancing, gesturing, waving, jumping, and other body movements. The AI captures the full range of human motion from your reference video and applies it to the character while maintaining natural movement dynamics and physics-correct interactions.
For character images, we support JPG and PNG formats. Reference/driving videos can be MP4, MOV, or other standard formats. The character image should clearly show the full body or at least the parts you want animated. Maximum video duration is 60 seconds, resolution up to 1920×1080.
Both Animate Photo and Character Replacement typically take 40-60 seconds for processing, regardless of video length. The AI processes pose detection and character animation generation simultaneously for fast turnaround.
Yes! All outputs come with full commercial rights. Use them for marketing videos, training content, social media, films, or any commercial purpose. You own the output videos. Ensure you have consent from any real individuals depicted.
Character replacement supports up to 1920x1080 resolution in square, landscape, or portrait orientation. All resolutions cost the same: 60 credits per 5 seconds. Uses the Imagera Character Engine with lighting consistency controls for motion quality and lighting preservation.
AI researchers, engineers & content specialists
Imagera is a unified AI creation platform for images, video, voice and avatars. Outputs ship at up to 16K resolution with no watermark and a commercial license included — choose from 500+ AI models in a single workspace.
A Viggle AI and Kling alternative that animates characters using motion from reference videos. Uses Imagera motion tracking + Imagera Character Engine (Sep 2025) for realistic motion transfer. Pay-per-use, no subscription required.
Just 60 credits per 5-second clip (~$1.85). Scale to any length up to 60 seconds. No subscription required — pay only for what you create.
Viggle: Great for memes but limited customization. Kling ($5.99-89.99/mo): Cinema-grade but subscription-locked. Runway ($12-95/mo): 10-second limit. Imagera: Pay-per-use, 60-second videos, any character image, actual skeleton tracking.
Yes! The viral 'dancing photo' trend is our specialty. Upload any photo, provide dance video as reference, get your photo dancing with realistic movement. Perfect for TikTok, Instagram Reels.
Imagera Character Engine is optimized for character animation, with improved hands, physical interactions, and motion clarity. It works with Imagera motion tracking so the generated character follows the reference performance consistently.
Yes, with consent. We're designed for legitimate use: updating training videos, marketing content, animating illustrations, creative projects. Using for non-consensual content, impersonation, or misinformation violates our terms. Always get consent for real people.
A real Imagera example — the character image and reference motion combine into a finished, social-ready clip.
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Imagera motion tracking · Imagera Character Engine · Up to 60 seconds per video
From 60 credits (~$1.85) per 5-second clip · No subscription required
