What is anime2.5drig?

Anime2.5DRig is a browser based tool that turns a layered anime style character image into a moving 2.5D avatar just by dropping the file onto a web page. It automates the setup work that used to be done by hand, such as splitting the artwork into moving parts, shaping those parts, and configuring physics for things like hair movement. Nothing needs to be installed, and all of the processing happens directly in the browser rather than on a server.\n\nThe expected input is a PSD file, a layered image format, that has already been separated into named parts such as face, eyes, eyebrows, mouth, and hair, following a specific naming convention the tool recognizes. It is designed to accept output directly from a separate project called see-through, which handles splitting a single flat illustration into those labeled layers in the first place. Once loaded, the tool automatically detects key reference points like eyelid position, the center of the iris, the mouth, and the neck pivot, separates left and right features such as eyes and eyebrows, and detects individual strands of hair to animate them with spring based physics where the roots stay stiff and the tips move more freely. If closed eye or closed mouth images are missing from the file, the tool can generate reasonable substitutes automatically by scaling and positioning generic versions to fit. The resulting avatar supports features like blinking, lip syncing to a microphone, idle motion, webcam based head and eye tracking using MediaPipe, adjustable facial expressions, chest movement for breathing, and a transparent or green screen background for use in streaming or recording setups.\n\nThe project runs on WebGL and needs an internet connection only if webcam based face tracking is turned on, since that feature loads a face tracking library from a public content delivery network. It is released under the MIT license, and the included PSD parsing library is also MIT licensed, while a companion library for tracking uses the Apache 2.0 license.