SCAIL - Smart Spectrum and Tsinghua open source film and television character animation generation framework

What is SCAIL

SCAIL (Studio-Grade) Character Animation via In-Context Learning (SCAIL) is a film and television level character animation generation framework proposed by Smart Spectrum in collaboration with Prof. Liu Yongjin's group at Tsinghua University. SCAIL can generate high-quality animated characters from a single photo, and its 3D motion coding system utilizes NLFPose technology to accurately capture the 3D key points of the human body and construct a digital skeleton, and then retains the depth information through "intelligent shadow" projection. Its 3D motion coding system utilizes NLFPose technology to accurately capture the key points of the human body and build a digital skeleton. The intelligent adaptation mechanism automatically adjusts the movements of characters of different sizes to ensure a natural and coordinated animation.

Functional features of SCAIL

• High quality character animation generation: Generate realistic character animation from a single image, support complex movements and stylized characters, adapt to a variety of scenes.
• Multiplayer Interaction Motion Coordination: In multiplayer scenarios, SCAIL can accurately handle the relative positions and interactions between characters to ensure natural and smooth movements.
• Cross Character Motion Migration: Supports motion migration for different types of characters (e.g., live-action, cartoon, toy, etc.), automatically adapting to different body types and styles.
• Three-dimensional consistency maintainedThe 3D motion coding and "intelligent shadowing" technology retains depth information and ensures the 3D coherence of the animation.
• Full context gesture injection: Consider the contextual information of the entire action sequence when generating the animation to ensure that the actions are logical and coherent.

SCAIL's core strengths

• High quality animation effects: SCAIL generates cinematic quality character animation, supports complex movements and stylized characters, adapts to a wide range of scenes, and significantly improves the visual effect of animation.
• Powerful multi-player interaction processing: In multiplayer scenarios, SCAIL can accurately handle the relative positions and interactions between characters, ensuring natural and smooth movements and avoiding action conflicts.
• Ability to transfer movements across roles: Supports motion migration for different types of characters (e.g. real people, cartoons, toys, etc.), automatically adapts to different body types and styles, and is highly versatile.
• Three-dimensional consistency maintainedThe depth information is preserved through 3D motion coding and "intelligent shadowing" technology, which ensures that the animation is coherent and natural in 3D space.
• Full context gesture injection: Consider the contextual information of the entire action sequence when generating the animation to ensure the logic and coherence of the action and to avoid stiff movements.
• Lowering the production threshold: SCAIL is expected to significantly reduce the threshold and cost of film and television animation production, enabling more creators to easily generate high-quality animation.

What is the official website of SCAIL

• Project website:: https://teal024.github.io/SCAIL/
• GitHub repository:: https://github.com/zai-org/SCAIL
• HuggingFace Model Library:: https://huggingface.co/zai-org/SCAIL-Preview/tree/main
• arXiv Technical Paper:: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.05905

Who SCAIL is for

• Film and Video Animation Production Team: SCAIL helps professional animation studios generate high-quality animation more efficiently, improve production efficiency and reduce labor costs, especially for projects that require a large number of character animation.
• game developer: In game development, SCAIL can be used to quickly generate character animations, support multiplayer interactions and complex actions, and enhance the game's visual effects and user experience.
• Independent creators and small studios: SCAIL lowers the barriers to animation production, enabling independent creators and small studios to produce high-quality animated content at a lower cost for personal projects or small commercial productions.
• Advertising and marketing team: It can be used to create animated advertisements and promotional videos, quickly generating appealing character animations to enhance the attractiveness of the content and its dissemination.
• In the field of education and training: Teachers and educational institutions can use SCAIL to create animated teaching materials, explaining knowledge through vivid character animation, improving teaching effectiveness and students' interest in learning.
• Content creators and self-publishers: SCAIL can help content creators quickly generate animated videos to enrich the form of content and enhance the fun and attractiveness of the content, which is suitable for social media and video platforms.