image_to_animation.py is not working with docker

[vararth]

Terminal Log -

(animated_drawings) D:\Github\AnimatedDrawings\torchserve>docker run -d --name docker_torchserve -p 8080:8080 -p 8081:8081 docker_torchserve
7dce048edf8f4a9d892ff22746d299e0999f98d86abb532fbae31fb7cb998dfb

(animated_drawings) D:\Github\AnimatedDrawings\torchserve>curl http://localhost:8080/ping
{
  "status": "Healthy"
}

(animated_drawings) D:\Github\AnimatedDrawings\torchserve>cd ../examples

(animated_drawings) D:\Github\AnimatedDrawings\examples>python image_to_animation.py drawings/garlic.png garlic_out
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 789, in urlopen
    response = self._make_request(
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 536, in _make_request
    response = conn.getresponse()
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 507, in getresponse
    httplib_response = super().getresponse()
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\http\client.py", line 1348, in getresponse
    response.begin()
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\http\client.py", line 316, in begin
    version, status, reason = self._read_status()
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\http\client.py", line 285, in _read_status
    raise RemoteDisconnected("Remote end closed connection without"
http.client.RemoteDisconnected: Remote end closed connection without response

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 486, in send
    resp = conn.urlopen(
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 843, in urlopen
    retries = retries.increment(
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\retry.py", line 474, in increment
    raise reraise(type(error), error, _stacktrace)
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\site-packages\urllib3\util\util.py", line 38, in reraise
    raise value.with_traceback(tb)
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 789, in urlopen
    response = self._make_request(
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connectionpool.py", line 536, in _make_request
    response = conn.getresponse()
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\site-packages\urllib3\connection.py", line 507, in getresponse
    httplib_response = super().getresponse()
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\http\client.py", line 1348, in getresponse
    response.begin()
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\http\client.py", line 316, in begin
    version, status, reason = self._read_status()
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\http\client.py", line 285, in _read_status
    raise RemoteDisconnected("Remote end closed connection without"
urllib3.exceptions.ProtocolError: ('Connection aborted.', RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without response'))

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "image_to_animation.py", line 41, in <module>
    image_to_animation(img_fn, char_anno_dir, motion_cfg_fn, retarget_cfg_fn)
  File "image_to_animation.py", line 19, in image_to_animation
    image_to_annotations(img_fn, char_anno_dir)
  File "D:\Github\AnimatedDrawings\examples\image_to_annotations.py", line 51, in image_to_annotations
    resp = requests.post("http://localhost:8080/predictions/drawn_humanoid_detector", files=request_data, verify=False)
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 115, in post
    return request("post", url, data=data, json=json, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\site-packages\requests\api.py", line 59, in request
    return session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 589, in request
    resp = self.send(prep, **send_kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\site-packages\requests\sessions.py", line 703, in send
    r = adapter.send(request, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\ADSMN\miniconda3\envs\animated_drawings\lib\site-packages\requests\adapters.py", line 501, in send
    raise ConnectionError(err, request=request)
requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: ('Connection aborted.', RemoteDisconnected('Remote end closed connection without response'))

(animated_drawings) D:\Github\AnimatedDrawings\examples>

I am unsure what the issue is - can someone please help out?