anny 0.5

A parametric body model based on MakeHuman for PyTorch.

Anny Body

Anny is a differentiable human body mesh model written in PyTorch. Anny models a large variety of human body shapes, from infants to elders, using a common topology and parameter space.

Features

• Anny is based on the tremendous work of the MakeHuman community, which offers plenty of opportunities for extensions.
• We provide both full body and part-specific models for hands and faces.
• Anny is open-source and free.

News

• 2026-06-03: v0.5: code refactoring (one can now use "anny.Anny" syntax). Support for "soma" rig and topology. SMPLX wrapper with "anny" topology support.
• 2026-02-04: v0.3: "smplx" topology available for interoperability with SMPL-X (non-commercial use only). Nipple blend shapes excluded from default settings (use local_changes="all" for backward compatibility).
• 2025-11-21: v0.2: support for different mesh topologies.
• 2025-11-05: v0.1: initial release.

Installation

Full installation (depends on warp-lang, which may require some manual work to install):

pip install anny[warp,examples]

Minimal dependency installation (will use more memory with large batch sizes):

pip install anny

Installation from latest sources:

pip install anny[warp,examples]@git+https://github.com/naver/anny.git

Caching

Anny parses MakeHuman assets and caches pre-computed blend shape data to avoid recomputation on subsequent runs. The first instantiation of a model can take a few minutes. By default the cache is stored in ~/.cache/anny/. To use a different location, set the ANNY_CACHE_DIR environment variable:

export ANNY_CACHE_DIR=/path/to/cache

Tutorials

To get started with Anny, you can have a look at the different notebooks in the tutorials repository:

• Shape parameterization
• Pose parameterization
• Texture coordinates
• Alternative models

Interactive demo

We provide a simple Gradio demo enabling to interact with the model easily:

python -m anny.examples.interactive_demo

License

The code of Anny, Copyright (c) 2025 NAVER Corp., is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (see LICENSE).

data/mpfb2: Anny relies on MakeHuman assets adapted from MPFB2 that are licensed under the CC0 1.0 Universal License.

data/soma: Annny provide a "soma" topology adapted from SOMA-X which is licenced under the Apache 2.0 license.

smplx: A "smplx" topology can be downloaded for non-commercial use only, allowing interoperability with SMPL-X. See LICENSE.txt and NOTICE.txt files in http://download.europe.naverlabs.com/humans/Anny/noncommercial.zip for more information.

Citation

@misc{br\’egier2025humanmeshmodelinganny,
      title={Human Mesh Modeling for Anny Body}, 
      author={Romain Br\’egier and Gu\’enol\’e Fiche and Laura Bravo-S\’anchez and Thomas Lucas and Matthieu Armando and Philippe Weinzaepfel and Gr\’egory Rogez and Fabien Baradel},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2511.03589},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03589}, 
}