AnimaSpark: A Feed-Forward Method for Animating Arbitrary 3D Objects
Researchers have developed AnimaSpark, a new feed-forward method for generating category-agnostic 3D animations. This pipeline renders rigged 3D models into image representations, uses a video generation model, and then tracks keypoints to derive skeletal motion. The system distills 2D motion data and lifts it to 3D to animate objects, reportedly outperforming existing methods in speed, motion quality, and text-motion alignment. AI
IMPACT This method could significantly speed up 3D asset production by automating animation generation.