Toronto generative AI company whose models animate and replace characters in video from a single image or reference footage. Sold through a consumer app, the PINOC character and motion tool, games and a developer API.
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Viggle builds AI that understands how people and objects move. Our models let creators control video generation with precision — place any character in any scene, animate from a single image, or remix existing footage into something new.
Raised a US$19M (about C$26M) Series A announced 2024-08-26, led by a16z with participation from Two Small Fish Ventures. osler.com
Operates as WarpEngine Canada Inc., per its own privacy policy, which also names the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada as its breach-notification regulator. viggle.ai
Named by Google as a startup collaborating through the AI Futures Fund on video creation powered by Gemini, Imagen and Veo. Google's page does not state whether Viggle received an equity investment. blog.google
Published open weights for Viggle-Animate, a model that replaces the character in a video using one repainted frame of that video. viggle.ai
Products Viggle AI publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.
Character and motion tool
Company describes it as "the creative engine where game devs and animators build characters, direct motion, and shape worlds", with output intended for Blender, Unreal Engine, Maya, Unity, Cinema 4D and Houdini pipelines.
Learn moreOpen-weight research model
Company describes it as "Character Replacement in Video from a Single Repainted Frame — Open weights for a model that replaces the character in a video using one of its own frames, repainted."
Learn moreAnnounced rounds only, newest first. Undisclosed amounts are shown as undisclosed.
Aug 26, 2024
Investors: a16z, Two Small Fish Ventures
Publicly announced partnerships.
Viggle describes itself as "a major tech partner" on The Black Mirror Experience, an immersive show produced by Banijay Live Studio and UNIVRSE, using the Viggle API.
Collaboration on an interactive fan experience for Ronda Rousey's graphic novel Expecting the Unexpected.
Viggle published a case study describing its role as a major technology partner on The Black Mirror Experience, an immersive show produced by Banijay Live Studio and the Barcelona VR studio UNIVRSE, built on the Viggle API.
Viggle announced a Series A led by a16z with new investor Two Small Fish Ventures, reported as US$19M and about C$26M, to expand its AI video generation products.
Sourced from the company's own pages or announcements.
Hang Chu
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Terms the company uses about its own work.
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