Wan2.2-Animate-2-14B

Highlights

• Motion transfer and character replacement combined in one model
• 14B; the official release provides both full and distilled templates
• Apache-2.0

Scope

• Suitable for: dance/motion replication, virtual humans
• Not suitable for: pure text-to-video (use Wan2.2 T2V)

Tips

• The cleaner the driving video background, the more stable the transfer
• Use a front-facing, full-body character image where possible, with proportions matching the driving video

Cautions

• Portrait rights and asset licensing are your own responsibility

Parameters

Input

Driving video + reference character image

Weights

14B (including Distilled)

License

Apache-2.0

Deployment

16GB verdict

Tight for 14B; use the distilled version with fp8, and trim the driving video short first.

VRAM note

Motion transfer must load both the reference image and driving frames, so peak VRAM is higher than same-size T2V.

Suggested starting point

The video_wan_animate2_distilled template, with the driving video compressed to 3–5 seconds.

Comparison

Competes with SCAIL-2 on the same task (motion transfer/character replacement): SCAIL-2 is MIT, end-to-end, and requires a reference character plus a driving video; Wan-Animate-2 is Apache-2.0, 14B, and officially ships two template sets, full and distilled. Choose Wan to avoid pitfalls; choose SCAIL for the most permissive license.