SCAIL-2 (controlled character animation)

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What they did

An open model from Zhipu (zai-org) that animates a reference character from a driving video end to end, without pose skeletons or masks. It also supports character replacement, multiple characters and animal driving.

Worth knowing

• Price: Open weights on Hugging Face (mit)
• License: mit
• Status: sourced. We have not run this ourselves yet (no "Tested" badge).
• Quality bar (computed by code): 4/5 (primary source ✓, reproducible ✗, new ✓, example output ✓, safe ✓)