Wan Animate in ComfyUI: A Complete Guide to Video Generation and Character Replacement | Installa...
In this video, I detail how to use Wan Animate in ComfyUI to generate videos, replace characters, and animate any character.
You'll learn:
How to install Wan Animate and the required models
Setting up Workflow in Animate and Replace modes
How to animate characters from a reference and replace faces in a video
Improving quality, FPS, and running even on low-end computers
Wan Animate is a new model from Tongyi Lab (Alibaba) that can realistically replicate an actor's movements and facial expressions while preserving the lighting, color, and style of the video. With it, you can:
Create character animations from any images
Replace characters in a video without losing quality
Achieve cinematic results right in ComfyUI
Useful links, assets, and guides inside the video.
Timecodes help you quickly find the section you need.
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:18 Main features of Wan Animate
00:02:59 First tests of Wan Animate
00:04:20 Video plan for Wan Animate
00:05:35 Previous videos on Wan 2.2 and ComfyUI
00:08:12 JOIN THE GUILD
00:09:18 Installing SageAttention on a local computer
00:12:18 Installing SageAttention on RunPod
00:15:47 Selecting a Workflow for work
00:16:37 Installing Custom Nodes
00:17:53 Which models do we need to download?
00:20:33 Overview of the main Workflow
00:21:21 STEP 1. Models
00:22:16 STEP2. Text Encoder and Prompt
00:23:22 STEP3. Reference Image
00:24:13 STEP4. Reference Video + Mask
00:25:09 STEP5. Output Video Resolution
00:26:45 Face Image, Pose (bones), Masking
00:27:36 STEP6. Sampler
00:30:55 STEP7. Generation Result + Collage
00:31:11 STEP with video enhancement (best run in a separate workflow)
00:32:16 Assets for practice
00:32:48 Setting up a Workflow for Animate mode
00:36:03 How to work with the Point Editor and apply masks
00:38:02 Running a Workflow in Animate mode
00:38:44 Applying Force Rate FPS
00:39:24 Applying Frame Window Size
00:43:01 How to make a collage of bones, a mask, and the generation result at the output
00:44:51 Test for increasing image resolution
00:45:25 Setting up a Workflow for Replace mode
00:46:23 Relight Lora and Colormatch for lighting consistency
00:48:07 Advanced hand and head detection for bone creation, pose influence, image influence
00:49:44 How to make long Video
00:50:51 Potential Features and Tips for Working with Wan Animate
00:51:50 A Practical Example of Generating with Wan Animate 1
00:54:46 Where to Get Ready-Made Character Animations for Reference Videos
00:55:44 A Practical Example of Generating with Wan Animate 2
00:58:00 How to Improve Videos and Increase FPS
00:58:43 How to Generate with Wan Animate on Low-End Computers
00:59:11 How to Download All Generations with One Click from RunPod