Wan and motion or performance transfer: the dated notes
3 Wan entries on motion or performance transfer, 9 January 2025 to 10 November 2025, across Wan 2.1 and Wan 2.2. The latest: Wan 2.2 Animate moves a character photo with the performance from a reference video. As of 2026-09-25.
| Line | Entries |
|---|---|
| Adobe Firefly Video | 1 |
| HappyHorse | 1 |
| Kling AI | 4 |
| Luma Ray | 1 |
| Midjourney video | 1 |
| MiniMax Hailuo | 1 |
| PixVerse | 1 |
| Runway | 3 |
| Wan | 3 |
Inclusion rule. Lines with at least one entry of this kind. Order. Alphabetical by line.
Wan has 3 entries on motion or performance transfer in the register, the first of them dated 9 January 2025.
1The entries
9 January 2025, Wan 2.1
Wan2.1 text to video Plus version, one sentence generated video. Support for large and complex movements, adherence to physical laws, artistic styles, and visual quality of movies.
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, newly released models
- wan2.1-t2v-plusWan 2.1 text-to-video Plus, with large movements and physical plausibility named
28 July 2025, Wan 2.2
The upgraded Wan 2.2 Plus text to video model, delivers higher quality results with stable sweeping complex movements, cinematic vision control, more powerful prompt following, and realistic world recreation.
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, newly released models
- wan2.2-t2v-plusWan 2.2 text-to-video Plus names complex movement and cinematic control
The gap from the previous entry: 200 days.
10 November 2025, Wan 2.2
Users simply upload a character photo and a reference performance video, and the model transfers the expressions and actions from the video onto the character in the image
Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, newly released models
- wan2.2-animate-moveWan 2.2 Animate moves a character photo with the performance from a reference video
105 days after the entry before it.
2The same kind of change in other lines
- Adobe Firefly Video: 1 entry, July 2025
- HappyHorse: 1 entry, June 2026
- Kling AI: 4 entries, November 2024 to March 2026
- Luma Ray: 1 entry, June 2025
- Midjourney video: 1 entry, June 2025
- MiniMax Hailuo: 1 entry, October 2025
- PixVerse: 1 entry, February 2026
- Runway: 3 entries, July 2024 to July 2025
Wan, every entry · Motion and performance, every line · Wan 2.1 · Wan 2.2
3Notes read
- Alibaba Cloud Model Studio, newly released models, read 2026-09-25