Show HN: Free unlimited AI video animation with no daily limits or signups

1 points by fyrean 12 hours ago

I'm a content creator who got frustrated with AI video tools. The good ones either require a $5000 GPU or charge $0.10-0.50 per video. Free options like HuggingFace give you 2 videos per day, which is useless for actual work. You could run it locally, but that requires an expensive top-of-the-line GPU or waiting 30 minutes to an hour for a 5 second video. I needed to create idle animations and basic character movements for game assets, so I built my own solution and opened it up for everyone.

AnimateForever.com generates videos from images with no daily limits, no credits, no signups required. Just upload your image and generate videos. It supports up to 3 keyframes (start, middle, end) so you can control the animation instead of just hoping the AI does what you want.

Technical details:

- Running a quantized fp8 model with 4-step lightning lora to keep generation times around 35-40 seconds

- Fair queue system: you can queue 5 videos but only 1 processes at a time (prevents queue flooding)

- The underlying model doesn't support keyframes natively, so I inject them directly into the latent space, which causes color artifacts. Fixed with post-processing color matching algorithms - hacky but works

Why free? I want this accessible to everyone. Currently eating the ~$400/month server cost myself. It's donation-supported but I'm not accepting donations yet - want to make sure the infrastructure actually holds up under real load before taking anyone's money.

The site works right now - no waitlist, no email confirmation. Just go try it. Would love feedback on the queue system and any scaling issues you spot that I'm missing.