Alibaba Cloud AI model Animate Anyone 2 simplifies lifelike character animation

Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud computing arm has introduced its updated artificial intelligence (AI) model, Animate Anyone 2, which the company touts as simplifying the animation of lifelike characters with just a static image and one video cue.

Unlike previous character-animation methods that solely use motion signals, Animate Anyone 2 achieves high-fidelity character image animation by processing both motion and environmental signals from reference content, such as source videos, to…