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    Friedrich-M/UniMate

    [SIGGRAPH Asia 2026] UniMate: One Unified Model to Animate Diverse Skeletons

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    Python
    MIT
    2.4K stars
    255 forks
    2.4K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 31, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    The project lists 1 contributor on GitHub.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Generates articulated 3D motion for diverse skeletons from text prompts using a unified model without per-skeleton retraining.
    • Enables real-time animation across varied skeletal topologies with a single trained model, supporting multiple species and object types.
    • Use for animating rigged 3D characters in games or films with text-driven motion generation for bipedal, quadrupedal, or exotic skeletons.
    • Use for motion editing by selectively re-animating parts of a skeleton under new textual instructions while preserving key joint movements.
    • Use for creating smooth motion transitions by in-betweening keyframes or expanding sequences with chained text prompts for complex animations.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    MIT

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.

    Community files

    • README: present

    Watch-outs

    • Owned by an individual account with a single contributor on GitHub; plan for bus-factor risk.
    • No GitHub releases; pin a commit or tag instead of a release.

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    From the README

    One Unified Model to Animate Diverse Skeletons

    Princeton · UC Berkeley · MIT · NTU

    [TODO] We will release an official preprocessing pipeline for new (out-of-distribution) rigs by this week.

    Excerpt from the Friedrich-M/UniMate README on GitHub (MIT license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Oct 2: +175Oct 3: +25

    +1,353 stars over 31 days across 6 snapshot days; best day +175 on Oct 2.

    Forks

    255+158

    Open issues

    9+0

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