diff --git a/examples/community/pipeline_animatediff_controlnet.py b/examples/community/pipeline_animatediff_controlnet.py
index eeb8b15475..4b1a641427 100644
--- a/examples/community/pipeline_animatediff_controlnet.py
+++ b/examples/community/pipeline_animatediff_controlnet.py
@@ -373,18 +373,29 @@ class AnimateDiffControlNetPipeline(
         return prompt_embeds, negative_prompt_embeds
 
     # Copied from diffusers.pipelines.stable_diffusion.pipeline_stable_diffusion.StableDiffusionPipeline.encode_image
-    def encode_image(self, image, device, num_images_per_prompt):
+    def encode_image(self, image, device, num_images_per_prompt, output_hidden_states=None):
         dtype = next(self.image_encoder.parameters()).dtype
 
         if not isinstance(image, torch.Tensor):
             image = self.feature_extractor(image, return_tensors="pt").pixel_values
 
         image = image.to(device=device, dtype=dtype)
-        image_embeds = self.image_encoder(image).image_embeds
-        image_embeds = image_embeds.repeat_interleave(num_images_per_prompt, dim=0)
+        if output_hidden_states:
+            image_enc_hidden_states = self.image_encoder(image, output_hidden_states=True).hidden_states[-2]
+            image_enc_hidden_states = image_enc_hidden_states.repeat_interleave(num_images_per_prompt, dim=0)
+            uncond_image_enc_hidden_states = self.image_encoder(
+                torch.zeros_like(image), output_hidden_states=True
+            ).hidden_states[-2]
+            uncond_image_enc_hidden_states = uncond_image_enc_hidden_states.repeat_interleave(
+                num_images_per_prompt, dim=0
+            )
+            return image_enc_hidden_states, uncond_image_enc_hidden_states
+        else:
+            image_embeds = self.image_encoder(image).image_embeds
+            image_embeds = image_embeds.repeat_interleave(num_images_per_prompt, dim=0)
+            uncond_image_embeds = torch.zeros_like(image_embeds)
 
-        uncond_image_embeds = torch.zeros_like(image_embeds)
-        return image_embeds, uncond_image_embeds
+            return image_embeds, uncond_image_embeds
 
     # Copied from diffusers.pipelines.stable_diffusion.pipeline_stable_diffusion.StableDiffusionPipeline.prepare_ip_adapter_image_embeds
     def prepare_ip_adapter_image_embeds(