# Wan 2.2 Animate > Wan 2.2 Animate (Wan2.2-Animate-14B) is Alibaba's open-source model for character animation and replacement, released in September 2025. It animates a character image with the movement and expressions of a reference video, or swaps the person in that video for your character. Kenerate AI runs it, plus Wan 2.2 Animate 2 and Fun Control, in the browser. URL: https://kenerateai.com/wan-2-2-animate Publisher: Kenerate AI (https://kenerateai.com) Last updated: 3 October 2026 ## Key facts - Wan engines: 3 - Modes: Animate · Replace (Wan 2.2 Animate) - Driving clip: Up to 2 min - Output: 480p or 720p · silent MP4 - Motion prompt: Wan 2.2 Animate 2 - Open model: Apache 2.0 · 14B - Wan 2.2 Animate 2 (Alibaba): Image + video up to 2 min · motion prompt → 480p or 720p · silent. Body, hands and facial expression on long takes; a 'Describe the motion' prompt; your photo's background is kept. - Wan 2.2 Animate (Alibaba): Image + video up to 2 min · Animate or Replace → 480p or 720p · silent. The original Wan2.2-Animate behaviour: animate your image, or replace the person in the clip and keep the scene. - Wan 2.2 Fun Control (Alibaba): Image + video up to 2 min → 480p or 720p · silent. Follows the clip's structure and poses closely while restyling it — stylised and cartoon looks. - SCAIL 2 (WaveSpeed): Image + video up to 2 min → 480p or 720p · keeps sound. Need the clip's sound? SCAIL 2 also animates or replaces, up to 2 min, and keeps the audio. - SteadyDancer (WaveSpeed): Image + video up to 2 min → 480p or 720p · silent. Fast dance with spins where Wan wobbles. ## Steps 1. Choose your Wan engine — Wan 2.2 Animate 2 for the best body, hands and face; Wan 2.2 Animate when you want Replace person mode; Fun Control for stylised looks. 2. Upload the character image — A clear, front-facing JPG or PNG of the character. Avoid WEBP. 3. Upload the driving video — MP4, MOV, WEBM, M4V or MKV, around 100 MB at most. Up to 2 minutes; anything longer is trimmed. 4. Set mode, prompt and resolution — Pick Animate or Replace (Wan 2.2 Animate), describe the look or the motion, choose 480p or 720p, and fix a seed if you want repeatable results. 5. Generate and refine — Download the MP4, or reuse the same seed with a tweaked prompt to compare versions. ## In depth ### What the Wan-Animate paper describes The Wan-Animate paper presents one model for two jobs: holistic replication of a performer's body movement and facial expression onto a character image, and replacement of the performer inside the original video while matching its lighting and colour tone. That's why the same engine family can produce both a character on its own background and a character dropped into the original scene. ### Local install or online? Locally you get every parameter, but you manage a 14B model, a GPU with enough memory and a ComfyUI or command-line workflow. Online you get three Wan variants behind one form, results saved to your history, and failed jobs refunded automatically. Many people prototype online and only go local for batch work. ### Choosing between the three Wan engines All three share the 2-minute clip limit, the 480p or 720p choice and silent output. - Wan 2.2 Animate 2 — best body, hands and face; motion prompt; animate only. - Wan 2.2 Animate — animate or replace; the classic release. - Wan 2.2 Fun Control — structure-guided, best for stylised or cartoon results. ## FAQ Q: Is Wan 2.2 Animate open source? A: Yes. Alibaba's Wan team released Wan2.2-Animate-14B on 19 September 2025 with open weights and inference code, under the Apache 2.0 licence listed in the Wan2.2 GitHub repository. You can run it yourself with a capable GPU, or use it in Kenerate AI's Motion Transfer tool without installing anything. Q: Can I run Wan 2.2 Animate without a GPU? A: Yes, in the browser. Kenerate runs Wan 2.2 Animate, Wan 2.2 Animate 2 and Wan 2.2 Fun Control on its servers, so you only upload a character image and a driving video. There's no ComfyUI workflow, no model download and no subscription; new accounts get starter credits to try it. Q: What's the difference between Wan 2.2 Animate and Wan 2.2 Animate 2? A: Wan 2.2 Animate has both modes — animate your character, or replace the person in the clip — while Wan 2.2 Animate 2 focuses on animating, with stronger body, hand and facial transfer and a 'Describe the motion' prompt. Animate 2 keeps your photo's own background. Both take clips up to 2 minutes at 480p or 720p. Q: Does Wan 2.2 Animate keep the audio? A: No — the Wan engines return silent video. If the clip's music or speech matters, use SCAIL 2, which also animates or replaces up to 2 minutes and keeps the sound, or Kling 3.0 with its keep-sound switch on clips of 3–30 seconds. You can also add audio to the Wan result in any video editor. Q: How long can a Wan animation be? A: Up to 2 minutes of driving video on all three Wan engines; longer clips are trimmed to the first 2 minutes rather than refused. The output follows the length of the part that is used. Because you pay per second of clip, trimming to the moment you need saves credits and render time. Q: Should I pick 480p or 720p for Wan 2.2 Animate? A: Use 480p for test runs and 720p for the final. The two run on the same engine, so a seed that works at 480p is a good starting point at 720p. If you need a sharper master afterwards, the result's 'Upscale to 4K' hand-off sends it to the video upscaler. Q: Can I replace someone in a video with Wan without their permission? A: No. Only use footage and character images you have the right to use, and people who agreed to it — never celebrities or strangers. Replace mode makes convincing swaps that viewers may take for real footage, so label the result as AI-made when you share it, and keep the original clip in case anyone asks. ## Related pages - AI Motion Control: https://kenerateai.com/ai-motion-control - Replace a person in a video: https://kenerateai.com/replace-person-in-video - SCAIL 2 motion transfer: https://kenerateai.com/scail-ai - AI character animation: https://kenerateai.com/ai-character-animation - Kling Motion Control: https://kenerateai.com/kling-motion-control ## Sources - Kenerate Motion Transfer tool: https://kenerateai.com/app/tool/motion - Wan-Video/Wan2.2 on GitHub (Wan2.2-Animate-14B, Apache 2.0): https://github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2.2 - Wan-Animate paper (arXiv 2509.14055): https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14055 - Wan2.2-Fun-A14B-Control on Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/alibaba-pai/Wan2.2-Fun-A14B-Control