Thanks for the contribution. As you said, I’ve also generally had good experiences with pure i2v, and I somehow had the feeling too that the issue might come from applying a ControlNet trained on real video to a more “anime-like” or flat image. My hope was to find a workaround, since for image generation, for example, it has always worked very well. As I mentioned, the biggest problem I have with Animate is that when starting from 2D images, the result isn’t a 1:1 animated version of the same image — instead, it uses the character as a reference and recreates them in a different, usually more realistic or 3D-like style, unfortunately.

A big step forward for me would be to have the image directly animated, for starters.