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MoZoo:Unleashing Video Diffusion power in animal fur and muscle simulation

arXiv 2605.13857 ↗First posted 8 Apr 2026cs.GR cs.CV cs.LGcited by 1

On the map: Diffusion models → Video generation

Abstract (arXiv)

The creation of cinematic-quality animal effects necessitates the precise modeling of muscle and fur dynamics, a process that remains both labor-intensive and computationally expensive within traditional production workflows. While generative diffusion models have shown promise in diverse artistic workflows, their capacity for high-fidelity animal simulation remains largely unexploited. We present MoZoo, a generative dynamics solver that bypasses conventional refinement to synthesize high-fidelity animal videos from coarse meshes under multimodal guidance. We propose Role-Aware RoPE (RAR-RoPE) which employs role-based index remapping to synchronize motion alignment while decoupling reference information via fixed temporal offsets. Complementing this, Asymmetric Decoupled Attention partitions the latent sequence to enforce a unidirectional information flow, effectively preventing feature interference and improving computational efficiency. To address the scarcity of high-quality training data, we introduce MoZoo-Data, a synthetic-to-real pipeline that leverages a rendering engine and an inverse mapping approach to construct a large-scale dataset of paired sequences. Furthermore, we establish MoZooBench, a comprehensive benchmark with 120 mesh-video pairs. Experimental results demonstrate that MoZoo achieves high-fidelity fur simulation across diverse animal skeletons and layouts, preserving superior temporal and structural consistency.

Key facts. Cited by 1 paper in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Video generation, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 40 of its 56 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 8 Apr 2026.

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40 of 56 references.

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  17. 2025ToonComposer: Streamlining Cartoon Production with Generative Post-Keyframingcited by 8
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  20. 2025AnimateScene: Camera-controllable Animation in Any Scenecited by 3
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