Alibaba Cloud's Tongyi Wanxiang announced today (19th) the official open-sourcing of its brand-new motion generation model, Wan2.2-Animate.This model is able to animate people, anime characters, and animal photos, which can be applied to short video, dance template, and anime creation. Related NewsG Sachs Lists HK Stocks/ CN ADRs Rated Buy Based on ERLI (Table)Built on a sweeping upgrade of Animate Anyone, this model supports two modes: Character Imitation and Role Play. In Character Imitation, movements and expressions from a reference video can be applied to a static image character. In Role Play, the original video's character will be replaced with actions and the background preserved.