Awesome-2D-Animation

A collection of tools, datasets and papers about inbetweening and 2D animation.

Feel free to create a PR or an issue. (Pull Request is preferred)

(The left two examples are from JoSTC and the right one is from ToonCrafter)

Outline

1. Software

software	software	software	software
Blender	OpenToonz	Harmony	TVPaint
Adobe Animate	Live2D	Cartoon Animator	CACANi

Name	Paper	Source	Code/Project Link
CreativeFlow+	Creative Flow+ Dataset	CVPR 2019	[code]
ATD-12K	Deep animation video interpolation in the wild	CVPR 2021	[code]
AnimeRun	AnimeRun: 2D Animation Correspondence from Open Source 3D Movies	NeurIPS 2022	[code]
AnimeCeleb	AnimeCeleb: Large-Scale Animation CelebHeads Dataset for Head Reenactment	ECCV 2022	[code]
Sakuga-42M	Sakuga-42M Dataset: Scaling Up Cartoon Research	arxiv 24.05	[project]
Anita	Anita Dataset - An Industrial Animation Dataset	online 2024	[code]

Paper	Source	Code/Project Link
As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Interpolation	SIGGRAPH 2000
As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation	TOG 2005
As-Rigid-As-Possible Image Registration for Hand-drawn Cartoon Animations	NPAR 2009	[project]
Live Sketch: Video-driven Dynamic Deformation of Static Drawings	CHI 2018	[video]
ToonSynth: Example-Based Synthesis of Hand-Colored Cartoon Animations	SIGGRAPH 2018	[webpage]
A Method for Animating Children’s Drawings of the Human Figure	TOG 2023	[code] [project] [demo]
DrawingSpinUp: 3D Animation from Single Character Drawings	SIGGRAPH Asia 2024	[project] [code]
Skeleton-Driven Inbetweening of Bitmap Character Drawings	SIGGRAPH Asia 2024	[code] [webpage]

Type	Paper	Source	Code/Project Link
Line art	Optical Flow Based Line Drawing Frame Interpolation Using Distance Transform to Support Inbetweenings	ICIP 2019
Line art	Bridging the Gap: Sketch-Aware Interpolation Network for High-Quality Animation Sketch Inbetweening	ACM MM 2024
Colorized	Deep Sketch-Guided Cartoon Video Inbetweening	TVCG 2021	[code]
Colorized	Deep Animation Video Interpolation in the Wild	CVPR 2021	[code]
Colorized	Improving the Perceptual Quality of 2D Animation Interpolation	ECCV 2022	[code]
Colorized	CharacterGAN: Few-Shot Keypoint Character Animation and Reposing	WACV 2022	[code]
Colorized	ToonCrafter: Generative Cartoon Interpolation	SIGGRAPH Asia 2024	[code] [webpage]
Sketch	FlipSketch: Flipping Static Drawings to Text-Guided Sketch Animations	arxiv 24.11	[code]

Paper	Source	Representation	Code/Project Link
Computer Aided Inbetweening	NPAR 2002	stroke
BetweenIT: An Interactive Tool for Tight Inbetweening	CGF 2010	stroke
DiLight: Digital light table – Inbetweening for 2D animations using guidelines	C&G 2017	stroke
Context-Aware Computer Aided Inbetweening	TVCG 2017	stroke
FTP-SC: Fuzzy Topology Preserving Stroke Correspondence	SCA 2018	stroke	[webpage] [video]
Stroke-Based Drawing and Inbetweening with Boundary Strokes	CGF 2021	stroke
Deep Geometrized Cartoon Line Inbetweening	ICCV 2023	vertex/point	[code]
Thin-Plate Spline-based Interpolation for Animation Line Inbetweening	arxiv 24.08	vertex/point	[code]
Joint Stroke Tracing and Correspondence for 2D Animation	TOG 2024	stroke	[code] [webpage]

Paper	Source	Code/Project Link
Autocomplete Hand-drawn Animations	SIGGRAPH Asia 2015	[webpage] [video]
Non-linear Rough 2D Animation using Transient Embeddings	CGF 2023
Efficient Interpolation of Rough Line Drawings	PG 2023

Paper	Source	Representation	Code/Project Link
Sketch Video Synthesis	EG 2024	stroke	[code] [project]
Breathing Life Into Sketches Using Text-to-Video Priors	CVPR 2024	stroke	[code] [project]
AniClipart: Clipart Animation with Text-to-Video Priors	arxiv 24.04	image	[project]
Dynamic Typography: Bringing Text to Life via Video Diffusion Prior	arxiv 24.04	curve	[project] [code]