Tongyi Lab, Alibaba · Real-Time Video
Wan-Animate-2
Animates a character from one reference image plus a driving video, dropping the intermediate motion extractor in favour of a dual-branch DiT with Time-Align RoPE and Sparse-Ref Attention. Handles multi-character and multi-camera scenes and decouples viewpoint control into a text prompt. A distilled Lite variant targets real-time avatars. Base weights promised; arXiv 2608.06009.
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