RealisDance-DiT: Simple yet Strong Baseline towards Controllable Character Animation in the Wild

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.14977v1
• Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2025 09:09:21 GMT
• Title: RealisDance-DiT: Simple yet Strong Baseline towards Controllable Character Animation in the Wild
• Authors: Jingkai Zhou, Yifan Wu, Shikai Li, Min Wei, Chao Fan, Weihua Chen, Wei Jiang, Fan Wang,
• Abstract summary: We introduce RealisDance-DiT, built upon the Wan-2.1 video foundation model.<n>We demonstrate that minimal modifications to the foundation model architecture yield a surprisingly strong baseline.<n>In addition, we introduce a new test dataset that captures diverse real-world challenges.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Controllable character animation remains a challenging problem, particularly in handling rare poses, stylized characters, character-object interactions, complex illumination, and dynamic scenes. To tackle these issues, prior work has largely focused on injecting pose and appearance guidance via elaborate bypass networks, but often struggles to generalize to open-world scenarios. In this paper, we propose a new perspective that, as long as the foundation model is powerful enough, straightforward model modifications with flexible fine-tuning strategies can largely address the above challenges, taking a step towards controllable character animation in the wild. Specifically, we introduce RealisDance-DiT, built upon the Wan-2.1 video foundation model. Our sufficient analysis reveals that the widely adopted Reference Net design is suboptimal for large-scale DiT models. Instead, we demonstrate that minimal modifications to the foundation model architecture yield a surprisingly strong baseline. We further propose the low-noise warmup and "large batches and small iterations" strategies to accelerate model convergence during fine-tuning while maximally preserving the priors of the foundation model. In addition, we introduce a new test dataset that captures diverse real-world challenges, complementing existing benchmarks such as TikTok dataset and UBC fashion video dataset, to comprehensively evaluate the proposed method. Extensive experiments show that RealisDance-DiT outperforms existing methods by a large margin.

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