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Text-to-Motion

Animation & Motion

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  • AR

    ARDY Discovered by AI

    2026

    An autoregressive diffusion framework with hybrid representations designed for real-time, interactive 3D human motion generation from text prompts and kinematic constraints.

    autoregressive interactive motion-generation

    GitHub · arXiv

  • DR

    DrawMotion Discovered by AI

    2026

    A diffusion-based framework that generates 3D human motions from both conventional text prompts and freehand drawings, offering precise semantic and spatial control.

    motion-generation sketch-to-motion text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • FW

    FRoM-W1 Discovered by AI

    2026

    An open-source framework designed to achieve general humanoid whole-body motion control and execution using natural language instructions.

    humanoid motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • HA

    HandX Discovered by AI

    2026

    A unified foundation and dataset for scaling bimanual motion and dexterous hand-object interaction generation from text, capturing fine-grained finger dynamics and contact timing.

    bimanual dexterous-interaction hand-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • KI

    Kimodo Discovered by AI

    2026

    An expressive and controllable kinematic motion diffusion model developed by NVIDIA that scales up human motion generation from text prompts and kinematic constraints.

    diffusion motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • KC

    KV-Control Discovered by AI

    2026

    A parameter-efficient trajectory control mechanism for text-to-motion models that injects key/value attention biases to guide characters along specific paths or joint trajectories while preserving the original motion prior.

    motion-generation text-to-motion trajectory-control

    arXiv · Hugging Face

  • LL

    LaMoGen: Language to Motion Generation Through LLM-Guided Symbolic Inference Discovered by AI

    2026

    A text-to-motion generation framework that utilizes LLM-guided symbolic inference and a body-part-level symbolic representation called LabanLite. It translates natural language instructions into precise, explainable, and temporally accurate human motions.

    explainable-ai llm motion-generation symbolic-inference

    GitHub · arXiv

  • MA

    MoLA-Align: Exploring Motion-Language Alignment for Text-driven Motion Generation Discovered by AI

    2026

    MoLA-Align explores motion-language alignment for text-driven motion generation, establishing a robust framework to align textual descriptions with 3D human motion sequences. It improves the semantic consistency and physical plausibility of generated animations.

    alignment motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • MN

    MoScale: Next-Scale Autoregressive Models for Text-to-Motion Generation Discovered by AI

    2026

    A next-scale autoregressive framework that generates 3D human motion hierarchically from coarse to fine temporal resolutions. By providing global semantics at the coarsest scale and refining them progressively, it establishes a causal hierarchy better suited for long-range motion structure.

    autoregressive hierarchical motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • MO

    MotionHiFlow Discovered by AI

    2026

    A text-to-motion generation framework that utilizes hierarchical flow matching to model human movements across multiple temporal scales, improving semantic alignment and temporal coherence.

    flow-matching motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • MU

    MultiAct Discovered by AI

    2026

    An unpaired, inference-time framework for text-to-motion generation that uses tailored attention guidance to handle composite prompts describing multiple simultaneous actions.

    attention-guidance motion-generation text-to-motion

    arXiv

  • AN

    AnimateAnyMesh

    2025

    Animates arbitrary 3D meshes from text prompts, generating 4D mesh motion (per-vertex deformation over time) for fast dynamic-asset creation.

    4d mesh-animation text-driven

    GitHub

  • HM

    HY-Motion 1.0 Discovered by AI

    2025

    A billion-parameter text-to-3D human motion generation model based on Diffusion Transformer (DiT) and flow matching, enabling high-quality, instruction-following character animations.

    dit flow-matching motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • IN

    InterAct Discovered by AI

    2025

    A large-scale 3D human-object interaction (HOI) generation framework and benchmark. It addresses the challenges of generating dynamic and physically plausible 3D human-object interactions from textual descriptions, minimizing contact penetration and floating artifacts.

    human-object-interaction motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • MO

    MoLingo Discovered by AI

    2025

    A text-to-motion model that generates realistic, lifelike human motion by performing diffusion in a continuous, semantically aligned latent space.

    latent-diffusion motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • MM

    MoSa: Motion Generation with Scalable Autoregressive Modeling Discovered by AI

    2025

    A hierarchical motion generation framework that enhances the Vector Quantization-guided Generative Transformers paradigm through a coarse-to-fine scalable generation process.

    autoregressive text-to-motion vq-vae

    GitHub · arXiv

  • MA

    Motion Anything: Any to Motion Generation Discovered by AI

    2025

    An any-to-motion generation framework that enables fine-grained spatial and temporal control over generated motion by introducing an attention-based mask modeling strategy to prioritize dynamic frames and body parts.

    mask-modeling motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • MO

    MotionGPT3 Discovered by AI

    2025

    A bimodal motion-language model that processes arbitrary input sequences of motion or language and generates outputs in either modality. It avoids quantization-induced artifacts by encoding raw motion into a continuous latent space using a variational autoencoder (VAE) while leveraging the semantic prior of pretrained language models.

    llm motion-generation multimodal text-to-motion

    Project · GitHub · arXiv

  • MO

    MotionLab Discovered by AI

    2025

    A unified human motion generation and editing framework based on the Motion-Condition-Motion (MCM) paradigm. It supports diverse tasks including text-to-motion, motion inbetweening, and fine-grained motion editing within a single model.

    motion-editing motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • PE

    PersonaBooth Discovered by AI

    2025

    A personalized text-to-motion generation framework that customizes motion styles and actor personas from a few reference motions using a multi-modal finetuning approach.

    motion-generation personalization text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • RT

    ReAlign: Text-to-Motion Generation via Step-Aware Reward-Guided Alignment Discovered by AI

    2025

    ReAlign is a plug-and-play reward-guided sampling alignment framework that uses step-aware reward gradients to guide the reverse sampling trajectory of diffusion models for text-to-motion generation.

    diffusion-model motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • RR

    ReMoMask: Retrieval-Augmented Masked Motion Generation Discovered by AI

    2025

    A retrieval-augmented masked text-to-motion generation framework that unifies retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) with masked diffusion to synthesize temporally coherent and semantically aligned human motions.

    masked-diffusion rag text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • SN

    SnapMoGen Discovered by AI

    2025

    A text-to-motion generation framework trained on a high-quality dataset featuring expressive and detailed textual annotations for fine-grained control.

    dataset motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • TT

    TSTMotion: Training-free Scene-aware Text-to-motion Generation Discovered by AI

    2025

    TSTMotion is a training-free, scene-aware text-to-motion generation framework. It enables the synthesis of realistic human motion sequences interacting with diverse 3D indoor environments without requiring expensive ground-truth scene-motion training data.

    3d-scene scene-aware text-to-motion training-free

    GitHub · arXiv

  • AN

    AnimationGPT Discovered by AI

    2024

    An open-source generative AI tool specifically designed for generating game combat motion assets from text prompts. It is trained on MotionGPT and introduces the CombatMotion dataset, which is tailored for game-style combat animations.

    combatmotion game-combat motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub

  • AA

    AToM: Aligning Text-to-Motion Model at Event-Level with GPT-4Vision Reward Discovered by AI

    2024

    A framework that enhances the alignment between generated 3D human motion and event-level text prompts by leveraging feedback and rewards from GPT-4Vision.

    alignment motion-generation text-to-motion

    arXiv

  • LM

    Large Motion Model (LMM) Discovered by AI

    2024

    A unified, motion-centric multi-modal framework that scales human motion generation across multiple tasks, including text-to-motion and music-to-dance, within a single generalist model.

    foundation-model motion-generation multi-modal

    GitHub · arXiv

  • LT

    Light-T2M Discovered by AI

    2024

    Light-T2M is a lightweight, fast text-to-motion generation framework (AAAI 2025) that combines local motion modeling with an adaptive textual injector to achieve low parameter counts and high inference speed.

    3d-animation lightweight real-time text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv · Website

  • MA

    MARDM Discovered by AI

    2024

    A text-to-motion framework that addresses the limitations of vector quantization (VQ)-based discrete methods by using masked autoregression on continuous motion representations, preserving motion diversity and quality.

    diffusion motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • MA

    Motion-Agent: A Conversational Framework for Human Motion Generation with LLMs Discovered by AI

    2024

    An efficient conversational framework for human motion generation, editing, and understanding that utilizes a pre-trained language model to bridge the gap between motion and text.

    conversational-agent llm text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • MH

    MotionGPT3: Human Motion as a Second Modality Discovered by AI

    2024

    MotionGPT3 is a unified motion-language framework that models human motion as a second modality, utilizing a Mixture-of-Tokens (MoT) architecture to achieve high-fidelity motion understanding and generation. It enables seamless bidirectional translation between natural language and 3D human motion.

    llm motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • MR

    MotionLCM: Real-time Controllable Motion Generation via Latent Consistency Model Discovered by AI

    2024

    Introduces a real-time controllable text-to-motion generation framework based on latent consistency models, enabling high-quality 3D human motion synthesis in just a few denoising steps.

    consistency-model motion-generation real-time text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • MT

    Multi-Track Timeline Control (STMC) Discovered by AI

    2024

    Developed by NVIDIA and MPI, this framework enables multi-track timeline control for text-to-motion generation, allowing animators to layer, sequence, and edit text-conditioned motions with accurate timing.

    3d-animation nvidia text-to-motion timeline-control

    GitHub · arXiv

  • PP

    ParCo: Part-Coordinating Text-to-Motion Synthesis Discovered by AI

    2024

    A part-coordinating text-to-motion synthesis method that introduces part partition and coordination mechanisms to achieve fine-grained, realistic motion generation.

    motion-generation part-coordination text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • SC

    ScaMo Discovered by AI

    2024

    A scalable autoregressive motion generation framework designed to explore scaling laws in text-to-motion tasks. It features a Motion FSQ-VAE tokenizer for stable, high-fidelity motion quantization and a text-prefix autoregressive transformer, scaling up to 3 billion parameters.

    motion-generation scaling-law text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • ST

    SoPo: Text-to-Motion Generation Using Semi-Online Preference Optimization Discovered by AI

    2024

    SoPo (Semi-Online Preference Optimization) is a reinforcement learning-based fine-tuning framework for text-to-motion models. It combines the advantages of online and offline direct preference optimization (DPO) to consistently generate high-quality, human-preferred 3D motions while avoiding overfitting and biased sampling.

    diffusion-model fine-tuning preference-optimization text-to-motion

    Project · GitHub · arXiv

  • TG

    TeSMo: Generating Human Interaction Motions in Scenes with Text Control Discovered by AI

    2024

    A scene-aware text-to-motion generation framework based on denoising diffusion models that incorporates goal-reaching constraints and scene interaction.

    diffusion motion-generation text-to-motion

    Project · GitHub · arXiv

  • TT

    Text-To-VRMA Discovered by AI

    2024

    An open-source web application designed to generate VRM Animation (.vrma) files from text descriptions. It supports Japanese and English prompts, utilizes LLM keyframing and NVIDIA ARDY engines, and allows users to preview animations on VRM characters directly in the browser.

    text-to-motion vrm vrma vtuber

    GitHub

  • VA

    VersatileMotion: A Unified Framework for Motion Synthesis and Comprehension Discovered by AI

    2024

    A unified framework that adapts Large Language Models (LLMs) via a Motion Tokenizer and an autoregressive Transformer to perform both motion generation and motion understanding tasks.

    llm motion-understanding text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • MO

    MoMask Discovered by AI

    2023

    A generative masked modeling framework for text-driven 3D human motion generation. It represents human motion as multi-layer discrete motion tokens using a hierarchical quantization scheme, then generates them using bidirectional transformers.

    masked-modeling motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • MO

    MotionGPT Discovered by AI

    2023

    A unified motion-language generation model that treats human motion as a foreign language. It tokenizes 3D motion into discrete codes and trains a large language model on both text and motion tokens to perform text-to-motion, motion-to-text, and motion prediction.

    llm motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • MF

    MotionGPT: Finetuned LLMs are General-Purpose Motion Generators Discovered by AI

    2023

    MotionGPT is a unified motion-language framework that treats multimodal control signals, such as text and single-frame poses, as special input tokens in large language models (LLMs) to generate consecutive human motions. It leverages the strong language generation and zero-shot transfer abilities of pre-trained LLMs for diverse motion-related tasks.

    llm motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • TG

    T2M-GPT Discovered by AI

    2023

    A simple and effective conditional generative framework based on Vector Quantized-Variational AutoEncoder (VQ-VAE) and Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) for human motion generation from textual descriptions.

    gpt motion-generation text-to-motion vq-vae

    GitHub · arXiv

  • HM

    Human Motion Diffusion Model (MDM)

    2022

    A lightweight diffusion model that generates human motion from text or actions, a common baseline for text-to-motion in animation research.

    diffusion motion-generation

    GitHub · arXiv

  • ML

    Motion Latent Diffusion (MLD) Discovered by AI

    2022

    A fast and high-quality motion diffusion model that operates in a low-dimensional latent space. It establishes a joint latent space between motion and text modalities, enabling efficient and diverse text-to-motion generation.

    diffusion-model motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

  • MO

    MotionDiffuse Discovered by AI

    2022

    One of the first diffusion model-based text-driven motion generation frameworks, enabling diverse and fine-grained 3D human motion synthesis.

    diffusion motion-generation text-to-motion

    GitHub · arXiv

Proprietary / Industry Tools

  • CA

    Cartwheel Discovered by AI

    2024

    A generative AI animation platform designed to create production-ready 3D character animations from text prompts or reference videos.

    commercial motion-generation text-to-motion

    Website

  • SA

    SayMotion Discovered by AI

    2024

    A web-based generative AI platform by DeepMotion that transforms text prompts into high-fidelity 3D character animations, supporting exports to FBX, GLB, and BVH formats.

    motion-generation online-tool proprietary text-to-motion

    Website

  • SB

    SayMotion by DeepMotion Discovered by AI

    2024

    A commercial browser-based generative AI service that transforms natural language text prompts into high-quality 3D character animations.

    commercial motion-generation text-to-motion

    Website

  • UM

    Unity Muse Animate Discovered by AI

    2024

    Unity's official AI-powered animation tool that allows developers to generate and edit natural-looking character animations directly inside the Unity Editor using text prompts and ML-assisted posing.

    commercial motion-generation text-to-motion unity

    Website