AnimationBench - Squash and Stretch: leaderboard

Metric: Squash and Stretch score: area preservation combined with visible shape deformation of the segmented object during a rebound, zero when no rebound occurs (%), animation-style image-to-video generation from the AnimationBench close-set suite (fixed source images and prompts, about 30 videos per dimension per model), scored from SAM 3 masks after a Qwen3-VL-Max rebound check; higher is better. Source: arxiv.org. Saturation forecast: Rough model projection: around 2026. 8 models tracked.

Top models

#ModelScore
1Seedance 2.079.54
2Seedance 1.0 Pro76.91
3Veo 3.166.48
4Sora 2 Pro61.25
5Kling 2.658.74
6Wan2.2-I2V-A14B50.94
7HunyuanVideo-1.530.82
8FramePack21.37

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