Eric Prydz - Call on Me (French House)

 

Abstract

Conditional motion generation has been extensively studied in computer vision, yet two critical challenges remain. First, while masked autoregressive methods have recently outperformed diffusion-based approaches, existing masking models lack a mechanism to prioritize dynamic frames and body parts based on given conditions. Second, existing methods for different conditioning modalities often fail to integrate multiple modalities effectively, limiting control and coherence in generated motion. To address these challenges, we propose Motion Anything, a multimodal motion generation framework that introduces an Attention-based Mask Modeling approach, enabling fine-grained spatial and temporal control over key frames and actions. Our model adaptively encodes multimodal conditions, including text and music, improving controllability. Additionally, we introduce Text-Music-Dance (TMD), a new motion dataset consisting of 2,153 pairs of text, music, and dance, making it twice the size of AIST++, thereby filling a critical gap in the community. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Motion Anything surpasses state-of-the-art methods across multiple benchmarks, achieving a 15% improvement in FID on HumanML3D and showing consistent performance gains on AIST++ and TMD.

4D Avatar Generation

Malphite's dance emphasizes the coordination of the upper body with the music, featuring alternating arm extensions followed by a forward-tilting hip movement and body rotation, with OneRepublic - Apologize (One Night in Malibu).
Tom sways left and right with the music, then breaks into a street dance, with Strange Talk - Picking Up All The Pieces (TheFatRat Remix).
Kung Fu Panda jumps joyfully and, upon landing, alternately leans forward on both sides while stretching his entire body. His legs move in a crisscross pattern to the rhythm, and he keeps his gaze forward throughout the dance, with TheFatRat & JJD - Prelude (VIP Edit).
Master Tigress extends her legs alternately to the music while spreading her arms to maintain a graceful posture. Then, she points both arms upward and transitions into a galloping dance move, with Chris Brown - Don't Wake Me Up (TheFatRat Remix).
Ninja Turtle slides to the music, occasionally raising its arms and swaying to the rhythm, spinning along with the beat, with Avicii - Next Levels (TheFatRat Remix).
King Kong's dance, based on street dance, gradually gains power as the main melody progresses, focusing on classic street dance standing footwork, with TheFatRat - Infinite Power!

Text-to-Motion

BAD
BAMM
MoMask
Motion Anything
A man walk forward with both hands above head.
A man walk forward with both hands above head.
A man walk forward with both hands above head.
A man walk forward with both hands above head.
A man walk clockwise in a circle.
A man walk clockwise in a circle.
A man walk clockwise in a circle.
A man walk clockwise in a circle.
A man picks up something and throw it away.
A man picks up something and throw it away.
A man picks up something and throw it away.
A man picks up something and throw it away.

Music-to-Dance

EDGE
Lodge
Bailando
Motion Anything
Marshall Jefferson - Move Your Body (Chicago House)
Marshall Jefferson - Move Your Body (Chicago House)
Marshall Jefferson - Move Your Body (Chicago House)
Marshall Jefferson - Move Your Body (Chicago House)
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You (French House)
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You (French House)
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You (French House)
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You (French House)
Paul Kalkbrenner - Sky and Sand (Tech House)
Paul Kalkbrenner - Sky and Sand (Tech House)
Paul Kalkbrenner - Sky and Sand (Tech House)
Paul Kalkbrenner - Sky and Sand (Tech House)

T&M-to-Dance (Human Music)

TM2D
MotionCraft
Motion Anything
A man is doing groove and swaying steps along with the beat with Daft Punk - Get Lucky (Disco).
A man is doing groove and swaying steps along with the beat with Daft Punk - Get Lucky (Disco).
A man is doing groove and swaying steps along with the beat with Daft Punk - Get Lucky (Disco).
A man is dancing along the beats while use both hands to touch legs and swing back and forth with Daft Punk - One More Time (French House).
A man is dancing along the beats while use both hands to touch legs and swing back and forth with Daft Punk - One More Time (French House).
A man is dancing along the beats while use both hands to touch legs and swing back and forth with Daft Punk - One More Time (French House).

T&M-to-Dance (Generated Music)

TM2D
MotionCraft
Motion Anything
A man is doing street dance, kick side step along the beats, with an energetic dance track with 120–130 BPM, vibrant synths, punchy beats, and uplifting melodies.
A man is doing street dance, kick side step along the beats, with an energetic dance track with 120–130 BPM, vibrant synths, punchy beats, and uplifting melodies.
A man is doing street dance, kick side step along the beats, with an energetic dance track with 120–130 BPM, vibrant synths, punchy beats, and uplifting melodies.
A man alternates lifting his arms overhead, following the beats, with an energetic dance track with 120–130 BPM, dynamic bass lines, punchy beats, and modern electronic elements.
A man alternates lifting his arms overhead, following the beats, with an energetic dance track with 120–130 BPM, dynamic bass lines, punchy beats, and modern electronic elements.
A man alternates lifting his arms overhead, following the beats, with an energetic dance track with 120–130 BPM, dynamic bass lines, punchy beats, and modern electronic elements.

Methodology

 

 


Motion Anything Architecture. The multimodal architecture consists of several key components: (a) temporal and (c) spatial attention-based masking, (b) motion generator, and (d) a single block of motion generator. These components enable the model to learn key motions corresponding to the given conditions, and facilitate alignment between multi-modal conditions and motion features.


Overview

 

 


Motion Anything is an any-to-motion method for generating high-quality, controllable human motion under multimodal conditions, including text queries, background music and a mix of both.


BibTeX

@article{zhang2025motion,
  title={Motion Anything: Any to Motion Generation},
  author={Zhang, Zeyu and Wang, Yiran and Mao, Wei and Li, Danning and Zhao, Rui and Wu, Biao and Song, Zirui and Zhuang, Bohan and Reid, Ian and Hartley, Richard},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.06955},
  year={2025}
}