In implementations of systems for generating digital objects to animate sketches, a computing device implements a sketch system to receive input data describing a user sketched digital object having a pose and a non-photorealistic style. The sketch system generates a latent vector representation of the user defined non-photorealistic style using an encoder of a generative adversarial network. A digital object is generated having the pose and a non-photorealistic style using a generator of the generative adversarial network based on the latent vector representation of the user defined non-photorealistic style. The sketch system modifies the latent vector representation of the user defined non-photorealistic style based on a comparison between the user defined non-photorealistic style and the non-photorealistic style.