Rig characters and create movement animation
As of 2026-10-09, AI does this work at L2 Partial automation. 6 updates bear on it. Strongest evidence: From the publisher only.
- Level
- L2Partial automation
- Updates
- 6
- Companies
- 3MiniMax · Google · Alibaba
- Strongest evidence
- T3From the publisher only
What moved it
Every update that bears on this work, newest first.
- 2026-10-02MiniMaxOpus 5.5 available on MiniMax Design
MiniMax Design now features Opus 5.5, enabling creation from code to motion.
- 2026-09-11GoogleGoogle DeepMind uses AI to reconstruct memory for documentary 'Love, Rendered'
Google DeepMind paired restored archival photos with pose control models to capture mannerisms and micro-expressions for the documentary 'Love, Rendered'.
- 2026-09-02MiniMaxMiniMax reports emergent world-model behavior in H3
MiniMax describes finding a 'world' inside H3, using only 8K samples and 0.199% trainable parameters to turn H3's language understanding into character and camera control.
- 2026-08-26AlibabaWan3.0 ranks No.1 in six animation categories on Koyal Film Arena
Koyal AI CEO shares that Wan3.0 ranks No.1 across six animation categories measured on Koyal's Film Arena.
- 2026-08-25GoogleGoogle Research presents AgentHands XR prototype
Google Research describes AgentHands, an LLM-powered XR prototype adding synchronized expressive hand gestures to conversational agents.
- 2026-08-25AlibabaWan3.0 ranks No.1 across six animation categories in Koyal Film Arena
Koyal AI CEO Mehul Agarwal states Wan3.0 ranks No.1 across the six animation categories measured in Koyal's Film Arena, and is also strong for realistic video.