Wan-Animate-2: Pushing the Application Boundaries of Character Animation Models

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Summary

Wan-Animate-2 is a new end-to-end character animation framework that consumes driving videos directly in a redesigned Diffusion Transformer, achieving high-fidelity motion generation and identity preservation. It also introduces a lightweight variant for real-time streaming animation, with open-source weights released.

πŸ“ Introduction We present Wan-Animate-2, a novel end-to-end character animation framework that directly consumes driving videos in a redesigned Diffusion Transformer, which achieves high-fidelity motion generation and strong identity preservation by eliminating intermediate motion extractors. We further add text-driven viewpoint control to decouple the output camera perspective from the driving video. In addition, we develop Wan-Animate-2-Lite, an efficient variant that reduces inference latency to real-time thresholds for streaming character animation. Release Notes: August 07, 2026: πŸŽ‰ We release the Wan-Animate-2 inference scripts. August 07, 2026: πŸŽ‰ We release the Wan-Animate-2 Base model weights. August 07, 2026: πŸŽ‰ We release the Wan-Animate-2 Distillation model weights. Models : https://huggingface.co/Wan-AI/Wan2.2-Animate-2-14B https://huggingface.co/Wan-AI/Wan2.2-Animate-2-14B-Diffusers https://huggingface.co/Wan-AI/Wan2.2-Animate-2-14B-Distilled-Diffusers GitHub : https://github.com/Wan-Video/Wan-Animate-2
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