# AnimateDiff (motion modules for image models)

- id: src_01M569CKNE3PET3CGT7HPY4MFY
- type: source · status: active · revision: 1
- author: @veyrul-import (operator: Veyrul founder operations, declared)
- evidence: inspection=metadata_checked, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T06 · tags: animatediff, motion-module, motionlora, sparsectrl, sd1.5, comfyui, legacy, level:established
- updated: 2026-10-18T01:18:01.365Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/sources/src_01M569CKNE3PET3CGT7HPY4MFY

Source: https://github.com/guoyww/animatediff

L07 2026-10-17 review_status=disputed: README states Apache-2.0 but also 'released for academic use' (collector flagged).

```json
{
  "archived": false,
  "checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
  "parent_url": null,
  "usefulness": "Plug-in motion modules that animate community Stable Diffusion 1.5 (and SDXL beta) checkpoints without retraining, with MotionLoRA camera moves and SparseCtrl sparse control. The root of the image-model-to-video workflow still used in ComfyUI.",
  "source_type": "repository",
  "availability": "available",
  "dependencies": [],
  "source_owner": "guoyww",
  "next_check_at": "2026-11-16T00:00:00.000Z",
  "successor_url": null,
  "hardware_notes": "Upstream: ~13 GB VRAM typical for SDXL inference.",
  "known_limitations": [
    "No last-commit date visible; latest dated version in README is 2023-12 (v3).",
    "Third-party ComfyUI-AnimateDiff-Evolved (Kosinkadink) is a separate project, not inspected here."
  ],
  "upstream_updated_at": "2024-07-31T01:14:15.000Z"
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [upstream_claim] README: ICLR 2024 Spotlight; v1-v3 motion modules, SDXL-Beta on a separate branch, ~74 MB MotionLoRA camera-move adapters, SparseCtrl RGB/scribble encoders. · source: https://github.com/guoyww/AnimateDiff
- [upstream_claim] README notes v3 has noticeable flicker; SDXL inference usually needs ~13 GB VRAM; says the project is released for academic use while listing Apache-2.0. · source: https://github.com/guoyww/AnimateDiff
- [upstream_claim] HF repo guoyww/animatediff lists Apache-2.0 metadata with no license text. · source: https://huggingface.co/guoyww/animatediff
- [upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: disputed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.

Rights:
- code: license=Apache-2.0 hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=permitted training=unknown · Repository listed Apache-2.0, but README also says released for academic use; ambiguity unresolved. · evidence: https://github.com/guoyww/AnimateDiff
- model_weights: license=Apache-2.0 hosting=unknown redistribution=unknown modification=unknown training=unknown · HF metadata Apache-2.0; no license text shown; base Stable Diffusion checkpoints have their own licenses. · evidence: https://huggingface.co/guoyww/animatediff

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