Shotcraft
Video generation

Wan-Animate-2

Character animation and replacement driven directly by a video.

A video generation model by Alibaba Tongyi Lab (Wan) · read 2026-08-14 · sourcing medium

Resolution
720P
Weights
Downloadable
API
Yes
Commercial use
Vendor states commercial use is permitted

It consumes the driving video inside a redesigned diffusion transformer rather than going through an intermediate pose/motion extractor, and adds text-driven viewpoint control. Ships as a 14B base model plus a distilled 'Lite' variant that runs in 10 inference steps.

Commercial use — Vendor states commercial use is permitted

Apache-2.0. No revenue threshold, MAU cap, territorial restriction or acceptable-use addendum, which matters here because the model is explicitly designed for character replacement in existing footage.

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Specification

Vendor figures, read 2026-08-14Read from Alibaba Tongyi Lab (Wan)'s own documentation on 2026-08-14. Vendors change these between model versions without announcing it, so check theirs before you commit a shot to a number. Sourcing for this entry is mixed. Some fields came from pages we retrieved, others could not be confirmed and are left blank. Check the vendor's current documentation

What it takes in
video, image, text
What it makes
video
Maximum duration
not established
Maximum resolution
720P
Aspect ratios
not established
Controls
driving video, reference character image, text prompt, text-driven viewpoint control, character replacement mode, segment frame length, distilled 10-step mode
Weights
Downloadable
API
Yes
Pricing
Free open weights (Apache-2.0). Repository default configuration uses 8x A800 GPUs for 720P; the minimum tested configuration is 2x A800 for 480P. This is a multi-GPU model as shipped, though community quantizations exist. Also exposed through Alibaba Cloud Model Studio.
Released or updated
2026-08-07

Maximum duration and supported aspect ratios are not established here. That means no page we could retrieve stated them, not that the model lacks them.

Strengths

  • Direct video-to-video character animation without a pose-extraction stage
  • Apache-2.0 for a capability most vendors restrict
  • Distilled Lite variant for much faster inference
  • Text-driven viewpoint control

Weaknesses

  • Multi-GPU (2-8x A800) as shipped; heaviest hardware bar in this list
  • No built-in consent or likeness safeguards
  • Documentation is thin on resolution and frame limits

Best for

What to understand before using it

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Sources

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