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Character-animation projects on GitHub

Animating characters with motion and deformation techniques

As of , the most-starred Character-animation projects on GitHub are AnimateAnyone (14.8K stars), agent-sprite-forge (4.5K stars) and BongoCat (3.8K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 12 Character-animation repositories with 32.1K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was reelmimic, with +205 stars in a day.

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32.1KStars in total
+294Stars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+205

reelmimic

edenfunf/reelmimic · ★ 3.6K

ReelMimic looks at a reference video you like — a file, phone recording, or YouTube link — and plans, builds and reviews a brand-new 2D animated video in that same style using an AI crew of Claude Code or Codex agents.

+24

BongoCat

vladelaina/BongoCat · ★ 3.8K

BongoCat is an animated desktop pet: a bongo-drumming cat that lives on your screen and reacts to your keyboard and mouse input in real time, built with C/C++, SDL3, and OpenGL.

+24

ClaudeAnimationBase

JohnHeibel/ClaudeAnimationBase · ★ 1.2K

A starter kit of code, prompts and assets for making Claude (via Claude Code or another coding agent) animate a hand-painted-style cartoon character called Clawd using p5.js and the p5.brush library, rendering the result as an MP4.

+19

UniMate

Friedrich-M/UniMate · ★ 1.8K

UniMate is the official code release for a SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 paper: a single diffusion/flow-matching model that generates motion for very different skeleton types (bipedal, quadrupedal, avian, marine, insectoid, serpentine, and even rigid articulated objects) from a rigged 3D asset plus a text prompt, without retraining per skeleton.

The all-time top

12 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · HumanAIGC/AnimateAnyone

    AnimateAnyone

    Animate Anyone is a research project for character animation: it turns a character image into video, synthesizing consistent and controllable motion.

    14.8K
  2. #2 · 0x0funky/agent-sprite-forge

    agent-sprite-forge

    Agent Sprite Forge is a Codex skill set that turns natural-language prompts into game-ready 2D assets: animated sprite sheets, transparent PNG frames, GIFs, and layered RPG maps, which can also be wired into Godot or Unity scenes.

    4.5K
  3. #3 · vladelaina/BongoCat

    BongoCat

    BongoCat is an animated desktop pet: a bongo-drumming cat that lives on your screen and reacts to your keyboard and mouse input in real time, built with C/C++, SDL3, and OpenGL.

    3.8K
  1. 4

    reelmimic

    3.6Kedenfunf/reelmimic · JavaScript

    ReelMimic looks at a reference video you like — a file, phone recording, or YouTube link — and plans, builds and reviews a brand-new 2D animated video in that same style using an AI crew of Claude Code or Codex agents.

  2. 5

    UniMate

    1.8KFriedrich-M/UniMate · Python

    UniMate is the official code release for a SIGGRAPH Asia 2026 paper: a single diffusion/flow-matching model that generates motion for very different skeleton types (bipedal, quadrupedal, avian, marine, insectoid, serpentine, and even rigid articulated objects) from a rigged 3D asset plus a text prompt, without retraining per skeleton.

  3. 6

    ClaudeAnimationBase

    1.2KJohnHeibel/ClaudeAnimationBase · JavaScript

    A starter kit of code, prompts and assets for making Claude (via Claude Code or another coding agent) animate a hand-painted-style cartoon character called Clawd using p5.js and the p5.brush library, rendering the result as an MP4.

  4. 7

    kimodo.cpp

    915localai-org/kimodo.cpp · C++

    This is a C++/GGML port of NVIDIA's Kimodo text-to-motion model: you give it a natural-language prompt and it generates skeleton animation (joint rotations and root translations).

  5. 8

    psd2live

    680tsunehimatoi/psd2live · Kotlin

    PSD2Live is an automated pipeline and desktop app that turns a layered PSD into an editable Live2D model: it auto-detects layer semantics, builds mesh/deformers, generates physics and idle animation, then exports a .cmo3 project plus the full .moc3 runtime file family.

  6. 9

    PuppetLoom

    245CheshireMew/PuppetLoom · TypeScript

    PuppetLoom turns a layered character PSD into an automated, verifiable, continuously-refinable 2D animated (Live2D-style) character, combining a Windows desktop app, a deterministic CLI, a plain-directory project format, and an external Agent Skill.

  7. 10

    skin-tokens.cpp

    226localai-org/skin-tokens.cpp · C++

    skin-tokens.cpp is a C++/GGML port of VAST-AI's SkinTokens/TokenRig model that automatically generates a skeleton and skin weights for a static mesh, producing a rigged GLB file ready for animation.

  8. 11

    h3-storyboard-skill

    178phileiny/h3-storyboard-skill

    It is a Claude Code skill that teaches the agent how to turn a script into MiniMax H3 shot lists, covering shot breakdown, beat counting, and facial/body performance direction so the emotional acting actually renders on screen.

  9. 12

    kindergrimm

    171albertobeiz/kindergrimm · JavaScript

    A procedural generator that draws hand-sketched doodle characters directly on canvas, rigs each one bone-by-bone for animation, and wraps them into several small browser games and tools under the name Kindergrimm.

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