University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB Canada
116 Street and 85 Avenue
Zhenglin Pan obtained his Master of Engineering (MEng) degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 2024. He is currently a Senior AI Data Trainer at Alibaba Holding in Hangzhou, China, working on large-scale AI model evaluation.
Before joining Alibaba, he was the cofounder of Dondon Animation Technologies Inc. (US) and was a producer at Paper Plane Animation Studio. His work focused on assisting the hand-drawing production of 2D animation, including tasks such as douga tracing, inbetweening, and colorization. He cherishes the time he spent working on 2D animation and AI-for-animation research.
He is a big fan of anime and manga. His favorite bangumi is
Rainbow Sea,
and his waifu is 
Makise
Kurisu. He posts blogs on Bangumi
and shared the testing results of promising AI+Animation pipelines on Bilibili.
An Awesome-Animation-Research repository
has been created by him to keep track of animation research for the community.
Senior AI Data Trainer |
Alibaba Holding
Jul., 2026 - Present | Hangzhou, China
Co-Founder |
Dondon Animation Tech.
Sep., 2024 - Apr., 2026 | United States
ML Researcher |
ANIMINS(GENIAC)
Oct., 2024 - May., 2025 | Japan
Producer |
Paper Plane Animation Studio
Jul., 2024 - Oct., 2024 | China
StructInbet: Integrating Explicit Structural Guidance into Inbetween Frame Generation
Zhenglin Pan
Siggraph 2025(Poster), Aug. 2025
Sakuga-42M Dataset: Scaling Up Cartoon Research
Zhenglin Pan, Yu Zhu, Yuxuan Mu
Preprint, May. 2024
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AniLines: Anime-Lineart-Extractor
Open-sourced project, Feb. 2025
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Anita Dataset: An Industrial Animation Dataset
Zhenglin Pan, Yu Zhu
Open-sourced project, Jun. 2024
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Fill Line Gaps: An easy tool for filling sketch gaps
Open-sourced Project, Aug. 2023
