Recent advances in 4D generation mainly focus on generating 4D content by distilling pre-trained text or single-view image-conditioned models. It is inconvenient for them to take advantage of various off-the-shelf 3D assets with multi-view attributes, and their results suffer from spatiotemporal inconsistency owing to the inherent ambiguity in the supervision signals. In this work, we present Animate3D, a novel framework for animating any static 3D model. The core idea is two-fold: 1) We propose a novel multi-view video diffusion model (MV-VDM) conditioned on multi-view renderings of the static 3D object, which is trained on our presented large-scale multi-view video dataset (MV-Video). 2) Based on MV-VDM, we introduce a framework combining reconstruction and 4D Score Distillation Sampling (4D-SDS) to leverage the multi-view video diffusion priors for animating 3D objects. Specifically, for MV-VDM, we design a new spatiotemporal attention module to enhance spatial and temporal consistency by integrating 3D and video diffusion models. Additionally, we leverage the static 3D model's multi-view renderings as conditions to preserve its identity. For animating 3D models, an effective two-stage pipeline is proposed: we first reconstruct motions directly from generated multi-view videos, followed by the introduced 4D-SDS to refine both appearance and motion. Qualitative and quantitative experiments demonstrate that Animate3D significantly outperforms previous approaches. Data, code, and models will be open-released.
We animate 6 mesh assets. Models are generated using commerical 3D generation tools (Rodin Gen-1, Meshy, Tripo3D). Each model is with multiple animations, and you can switch between different animations by clicking the thumbnails below the video. Click the thumbnail above the video to see the input 3D model. When you hover your mouse over the video, a full screen button button will appear in the bottom right corner. Click it to watch the video in 2048×1024; resolution.
We animate 40 reconstructed 3D models. Some models have more than one animation results, and you can switch between different animations by clicking the thumbnails below the video. Click the thumbnail above the video to see the input 3D model. When you hover your mouse over the video, a full screen button button will appear in the bottom right corner. Click it to watch the video in 1024 resolution.
We animate 10 real-world 3D scans. Some model have more than one animation results, and you can switch between different animations by clicking the thumbnails below the video. Click the thumbnail above the video to see the input 3D model. When you hover your mouse over the video, a full screen button button will appear in the bottom right corner. Click it to watch the video in 1024 resolution.
We animate 10 generated models. Models are generated using commerical 3D generation tools (Rodin Gen-1, Meshy, Tripo3D). Some models have more than one animation results, and you can switch between different animations by clicking the thumbnails below the video. Click the thumbnail above the video to see the input 3D model. When you hover your mouse over the video, a full screen button will appear in the bottom right corner. Click it to watch the video in 1024 resolution.
We compare our motion reconstruction results (left) and those w/ 4D-SDS (right) as below. Best viewed in full screen
Some 3D assets for animation are downloaded from sketchfab, under CC Attribution and CC Attribution-NonCommercial. We would like to thank the creatorsfor sharing great 3D assets.