Just a week ago I was wondering about this. I was wondering if diffusion models could be used first to generate a 3D character model, and then use another model

Just a week ago I was wondering about this. I was wondering if diffusion models could be used first to generate a 3D character model, and then use another model to describe actions that animate the character. Here is the humble beginnings of such a thing. I was also wondering about the possibility of generating, say, an anthropomorphized cartoon otter that can be animated using a model trained on both otter and human motion to produce a result that is something in between. It could reduce the workload for producing animated stories by one or more orders of magnitude sometime in the possibly not-too-distant future.