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Wan-Animate-2 Released

·2026.08.07 23:12

Key point

Wan-Animate-2 supports video-based character animation and text-based viewpoint control.

Details

Wan-AI has released the inference code and model weights for the Wan-Animate-2 character animation framework.

A new Diffusion Transformer directly takes the driving video as input, performing high-fidelity motion generation and character identity preservation without an intermediate motion extractor.

  • Text-based viewpoint control separates the driving video and output camera perspective
  • A lightweight version Wan-Animate-2-Lite is provided for real-time streaming animation
  • 14B Base, 14B Distilled, and Diffusers format models are released
  • Inference scripts and model weights were released on August 7, 2026
video-generationdiffusion-transformeropen-source-modelcharacter-animationwan-ai
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