Human Mesh Modeling for Anny Body
About
Parametric body models provide the structural basis for many human-centric tasks, yet existing models often rely on costly 3D scans and learned shape spaces that are proprietary and demographically narrow. We introduce Anny, a simple, fully differentiable, and scan-free human body model grounded in anthropometric knowledge from the MakeHuman community. Anny defines a continuous, interpretable shape space, where phenotype parameters (e.g. gender, age, height, weight) control blendshapes spanning a wide range of human forms---across ages (from infants to elders), body types, and proportions. Calibrated using WHO population statistics, Anny provides realistic and demographically grounded human shape variation within a single unified model. We release the Anny body model and its code under the Apache 2.0 license. Thanks to its openness and semantic control, Anny serves as a versatile foundation for 3D human modeling---supporting millimeter-accurate scan fitting, controlled synthetic data generation, and Human Mesh Recovery (HMR). We further introduce Anny-One, a collection of 780k photorealistic images generated with Anny, showing that despite its simplicity, HMR models trained with Anny can match the performance of those trained with scan-based body models.