Wan Animate: Transform Static Images into Hollywood-Grade Character Animations
24fps 1080p motion transfer from a single image in minutes. Wan Animate combines image-to-video animation & character replacement — Apache 2.0 open source, starting at $0.08/video second. No subscriptions required.
Transform any static image into dynamic, animated video content
Ship your own Wan Animate AI video SaaS
Offer image-to-video animation, character swap, and wanimate workflows inside one experience powered by the open Wan model stack.
Two Modes, One Pipeline
Wan Animate AI toggles between Move (image-to-video) and Replace (video-to-video) to animate portraits or swap characters while preserving scene context.
Motion That Stays On-Model
Spatially aligned skeleton control and implicit facial features powered by Wan Animate keep body movement and expression true to your reference footage.
Scene-Aware Relighting
Wan Animate's relighting LoRA adapts lighting and tone so the injected character matches the source environment without manual grading.
Open Model, API Ready
Leverage Apache 2.0 weights, inference scripts, and hosted endpoints to integrate Wan Animate and wanimate workflows into any pipeline.
How Wan Animate Fits Your Flow
Three streamlined steps from assets to delivery.
Upload Character & Driver
Provide a high-resolution source image and the motion reference video you want Wan Animate to follow.
Select Mode & Quality
Choose Move or Replace using Wan Animate, lock frame ranges, pick frame rate and resolution, and enable Relighting LoRA when needed.
Render & Hand Off
Run inference, review previews, and publish finals via storage exports, webhooks, or direct downloads.
Launch Products People Love
Wan Animate powers end-user experiences across industries.
Avatar & Creator Platforms
Let users animate profile photos or mascots with Wan Animate's studio-grade motion transfer technology.
Marketing & Localization Studios
Swap actors to adapt campaigns for new markets without reshoots using Wan Animate technology.
Commerce & Virtual Try-On
Replace models in product videos with Wan Animate to show diverse shoppers and styles.
Film, TV & VFX Previz
Prototype scenes, stunts, or ADR replacements with Wan Animate before committing to expensive shoots.
Game & Metaverse Builders
Generate expressive cutscenes from concept art or NPC portraits on demand using Wan Animate technology.
Education & Training
Animate instructors or training avatars with Wan Animate to localize lessons with consistent delivery.
Enterprise Automation
Embed Wan Animate into workflows that need secure, auditable character video generation.
Why Teams Choose Wan Animate
Purpose-built for production AI video.
Unified Architecture
Wan Animate's Mixture-of-Experts diffusion unifies animation and replacement without separate model juggling.
High Fidelity Control
Wan Animate preserves micro-expressions, wrinkles, and clothing detail with anatomically guided warping and texture blending.
Lighting Consistency
Built-in relighting keeps color tone, highlights, and shadows in sync with the original footage.
Long-Form Continuity
Chaining and keyframe guidance extend clips beyond 5 seconds while maintaining identity.
Scalable Deployment
Run hosted, self-managed, or hybrid with multi-GPU inference and queue orchestration.
Flexible Licensing
Apache 2.0 license plus usage rights policies that keep ownership with your users.
Ecosystem Friendly
Works with ComfyUI, Wan text-to-video, and third-party creative pipelines.
Security & Governance
Isolated processing, asset retention policies, and audit logs for regulated teams.
Teams Shipping with Wan Animate
Stories from builders delivering motion-transfer products.
Jasmine Li
Founder, PersonaFlowWan Animate Move mode preserves every micro-expression from our driving videos. Customers think we hired actors for each avatar.
Theo Ramirez
Head of Product, SwapLabThe Replace pipeline handles relighting out of the box, so we deliver localized ads in hours, not weeks.
Priya Singh
CTO, Stagecraft XROpen-source weights let us deploy in our own VPC and meet strict content governance requirements.
Michael Chen
Lead Engineer, Flux StudiosSkeleton guidance keeps action shots stable even when we run 12-second sequences.
Aisha Al-Masri
Creative Director, DesertGlowWe used Wan Animate to swap in regional talent for a 14-market campaign without a single reshoot.
Lucas Martin
Founder, AnimarketAPI-first design made it trivial to plug Wan Animate into our subscription billing workflow.
Sofia Petrov
Producer, Neon PulseTemporal guidance keeps long takes cohesive—no more re-rendering every five seconds.
Daniel Harper
Engineering Manager, Atlas LearningWe animate instructors in multiple languages while keeping classroom lighting perfectly matched.
Mina Okada
CEO, HoloDressCharacter replacement finally unlocked virtual try-ons that feel real to shoppers.
Deploy on Your Terms
Start with hosted APIs or scale with your own infrastructure.
Pro Trial - $9.9
Generate 4× 720p · 5s videos • 1,000 credits
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Plus
Built for solo creators launching their first AI videos.
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- 1,500 credits per month
- $0.63 per 100 credits
- 1080p HD output
- No watermark
- Commercial license
Pro
Designed for growing teams publishing videos every week.
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- 7,500 credits per month
- $0.26 per 100 credits
- 1080p HD output
- No watermark
- Commercial license
Enterprise
Scale production with 20,000 shared credits and priority planning.
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- 20,000 credits per month
- $0.25 per 100 credits
- 1080p HD output
- No watermark
- Commercial license
Wan Animate FAQs
Technical details for builders and operators.
- Provide a reference image plus a driving video. For Replace mode, use footage where the subject is clearly visible across frames.
- Wan Animate (Wan2.2-Animate) runs natively at 24 fps with 720p output and can be configured for 1080p when adequate GPU memory is available.
- Yes. Download the Apache 2.0 weights and run the official inference scripts on single or multi-GPU setups with PyTorch 2.4+.
- Wan Animate's relighting LoRA aligns color temperature, shadows, and highlights so the injected character matches the original environment.
- Yes, commercial use is permitted under the Apache 2.0 license, but you are responsible for securing rights to your source media.























