Puppeteer: Rig and Animate Your 3D Models

Chaoyue Song^1,2, Xiu Li², Fan Yang¹, Zhongcong Xu², Jiacheng Wei¹,
Fayao Liu³, Jiashi Feng², Guosheng Lin^1*, Jianfeng Zhang^2*
*Corresponding authors
¹ Nanyang Technological University ² Bytedance Seed ³ A*STAR

NeurIPS 2025 (Spotlight)

Project | Paper | Code | Video | Data: Articulation-XL2.0

Update

• 2025.9.3: Release weights for Puppeteer trained on Articulation-XL2.0.

Overview

Puppeteer is a unified framework for automatic rigging and animation. This repo includes pretrained weights for skeleton generation and skinning-weight prediction, trained on Articulation-XL2.0. For usage, please refer to our GitHub repository.

Citation

@article{song2025puppeteer,
  title={Puppeteer: Rig and Animate Your 3D Models},
  author={Chaoyue Song and Xiu Li and Fan Yang and Zhongcong Xu and Jiacheng Wei and Fayao Liu and Jiashi Feng and Guosheng Lin and Jianfeng Zhang},
  journal={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year={2025}
}