Bunraku: Turning a Single Illustration into an Editable Live2D Character

arXiv:2607.27348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Live2D is the dominant 2D character-animation format for anime characters and virtual avatars, representing each character as a stack of RGBA layers driven by per-layer mesh deformation. Despite its wide use in virtual streaming, mobile games, and interactive characters, authoring a Live2D model still demands weeks of manual layer separation, occlusion completion, mesh placement, and keyframing, and no prior generative method produces such a struct...