Alibaba has open-sourced Wan Animate 2, a new video-to-video AI model de

Prompt

Alibaba has open-sourced Wan Animate 2, a new video-to-video AI model designed for controlling character animation via reference driving video.

Generating realistic character movements from reference video has historically struggled with non-standard body rigs and multi-subject consistency. Wan Animate 2 tackles these edge cases directly.

Key capabilities:
- High-fidelity expression transfer from reference video
- Simultaneous tracking and control for multiple characters
- Stable handling of non-standard and irregular body proportions

Making weights open source allows developers to integrate controllable video animation directly into custom pipelines without relying on proprietary APIs.

The bottleneck in generative video is rapidly shifting from raw video synthesis to precise local control and continuity.