At least until someone decides to fine-tune a general purpose model to the task of animation.
I'd be surprised if you can't get a 80%/20% result in a weekend, and even that probably saves you some time if you're just willing to pick best-of-n results
The jump in understanding that having a full sized LLM behind the generations enables here is massive: https://ghost.oxen.ai/fine-tuned-qwen-image-edit-vs-nano-ban...