AnimaSpark: A Feed-Forward Method for Animating Arbitrary 3D Objects

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.10988v1
• Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:25:39 GMT
• Title: AnimaSpark: A Feed-Forward Method for Animating Arbitrary 3D Objects
• Abstract summary: Current methods for category-agnostic animation generation exhibit critical limitations in inference speed, motion quality, and adherence to textual prompts.<n>This paper introduces AnimaSpark, a novel pipeline for category-agnostic 3D animation generation.<n>Our method achieves superior performance over existing state-of-the-art techniques across key metrics, including text-motion alignment, quality of motion, and computational efficiency.
• Score: 9.201202105097991
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: While recent advancements in generative AI have substantially accelerated static 3D model creation workflows, the synthesis of category-agnostic 3D animations remains a significant bottleneck in 3D asset production. Current methods for category-agnostic animation generation exhibit critical limitations in inference speed, motion quality, and adherence to textual prompts, thereby leaving the process dependent on labor-intensive manual artistry. To address these challenges, this paper introduces AnimaSpark, a novel pipeline for category-agnostic 3D animation generation. Our approach is motivated by the key insight that for many fundamental motions in the 3D world, the corresponding joint transformations can often be effectively modeled within a two-dimensional subspace. The pipeline begins by rendering a rigged static 3D model into multi-layered image representations of its mesh and skeleton, which are subsequently fed into a video generation model. We then employ a keypoint tracking algorithm on the generated video to capture the motion of the skeletal joints projected onto the camera's viewing plane. In the final stage, we distill the planar translations and rotations from these tracked keypoints and lift them from the 2D domain into 3D space to animate the character. Comprehensive evaluations reveal that our method achieves superior performance over existing state-of-the-art techniques across key metrics, including text-motion alignment, quality of motion, and computational efficiency.

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