Alibaba Releases Wan-Animate-2: Open-Source SOTA for Character Animation Transfer

natesiggard · x · 2026-08-10

Alibaba has released Wan-Animate-2, a new open-source state-of-the-art (SOTA) model capable of transferring any performance onto virtually any character.

Key upgrades include:

• Improved facial expressions
• Multi-character support
• Camera control
• Real-time animation generation

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