Best AI model for animated characters
Cartoon, 3D and anime-style characters that move and act: a mascot waving, a creature exploring, a short animated moment.
Early result: 4 prompts per video task. See the all-video ranking for the stronger signal.
Best for animated characters
Veo 3.1 Fast
- 30%chance of ranking first
- Veo 3.1runner-up
Judge's most likely first pick; first on 2 of 4 requests.
Judge agreement 0.75
Tested requests, made with Veo 3.1 Fast
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anime girl with short blue hair standing on a rooftop at sunset, wind blowing her hair and jacket, she turns and smiles, cherry blossom petals flying
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Claymation style little robot walking through a tiny garden, looking curiously at a giant ladybug, stop motion look
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A cute round orange cat mascot in 3D cartoon style waves at the camera, then jumps happily, bright pastel background, smooth animated movie look
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a friendly green dragon in a hand drawn 2D cartoon style flapping its wings and flying over a village, simple flat colors
All 5 models, ranked
Strength is the Plackett–Luce rating fitted to the judge's rankings, centred at 0; the bar is the 95% bootstrap interval. Overlapping bars mean a tie.
| # | Model | Strength | Ranks first | Prompt match | Looks | Credits per clipCredits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Veo 3.1 Fast |
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30% | 37.3 | 5.49 | 12 |
| 2 | Veo 3.1 |
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30% | 38.4 | 5.40 | 48 |
| 3 | Wan 2.7 |
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24% | 37.5 | 5.62 | 15 |
| 4 | Kling V3 |
|
9% | 38.1 | 5.36 | 20 |
| 5 | Seedance 2.5 |
|
7% | 36.9 | 5.68 | 35 |
Narrow screens hide prompt match and looks, and show credits under each model name. Credits per clip are Picsart's own estimate on the benchmark settings.
Best for
Computed from the benchmark data, not written by hand.
Wins the most requests
3 of 4 first picks for Veo 3.1; 2 models won at least one. Veo 3.1 Fast (2 of 4) still ranks first on every placement.
Follows the prompt most closely
38.4 mean CLIP similarity: Veo 3.1, closest to the prompt.
Looks best to the aesthetic model
5.68 of 10 on the aesthetic predictor: Seedance 2.5.
Most consistent of the top four
±1.50 log-strength: Wan 2.7 has the narrowest error bar of the top four.
How stable the judge was
0.75 Kendall tau between two shuffled judge runs (1 identical, 0 unrelated).
What the judge saw
We judge three frames per clip: the same character in every frame, an appealing style and clean drawing. Best first; the judge saw them shuffled and unlabelled.
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A cute round orange cat mascot in 3D cartoon style waves at the camera, then jumps happily, bright pastel background, smooth animated movie look
- Veo 3.1 judge 1.0
- Wan 2.7 judge 2.0
- Veo 3.1 Fast judge 3.0
- Seedance 2.5 judge 4.0
- Kling V3 judge 5.0
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anime girl with short blue hair standing on a rooftop at sunset, wind blowing her hair and jacket, she turns and smiles, cherry blossom petals flying
- Veo 3.1 Fast judge 1.0
- Kling V3 judge 2.0
- Seedance 2.5 judge 3.5
- Wan 2.7 judge 3.5
- Veo 3.1 judge 5.0
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Claymation style little robot walking through a tiny garden, looking curiously at a giant ladybug, stop motion look
- Veo 3.1 judge 1.5
- Veo 3.1 Fast judge 1.5
- Kling V3 judge 3.5
- Wan 2.7 judge 3.5
- Seedance 2.5 judge 5.0
How this was measured
- Same requests. 4 animated character prompts, written like real users write, sent to 5 video models from Picsart's AI Playground.
- Blind judge, twice. An AI judge ranked each request's clips without model names, from three frames per clip (at 25, 50 and 75%), then again reshuffled. It does not see motion or hear sound.
- Error bars. Plackett–Luce ratings bootstrapped over requests; CLIP and an aesthetic predictor on the same three frames shown as checks.
Questions people ask
- Which AI model is best for animated characters?
- Veo 3.1 Fast (Google): 30% chance of ranking first on 4 animated characters requests, ahead of Veo 3.1 at 30%, out of 5 video models tested the same way.
- Is Veo 3.1 as good as Veo 3.1 Fast for animated characters?
- Close: their 95% error bars overlap (Veo 3.1 Fast -1.84 to +2.33, Veo 3.1 -1.83 to +7.11 log-strength), so on 4 requests Veo 3.1 Fast is only the more likely winner.
- How was the best model for animated characters measured?
- Same 4 requests to every model; a blind AI judge ranked the outputs twice, shuffled (agreement between runs: Kendall tau 0.75, where 1 is an identical order and 0 unrelated); Plackett-Luce ratings with 95% bootstrap error bars, CLIP and aesthetic scores as checks.