Zhenglin Pan

University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB Canada
116 Street and 85 Avenue

About Me

Zhenglin Pan obtained his Master of Engineering (MEng) degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 2024. He is the cofounder of Dondon Animation Technologies Inc. (US) and was a producer at Paper Plane Animation Studio.
His work focuses on assisting the hand-drawing production of 2D animation, including tasks such as douga tracing, inbetweening, and colorization.

He is a big fan of anime and manga. His favorite bangumi is Rainbow SeaRainbow Sea, and his waifu is Makise KurisuMakise Kurisu. He posts blogs on Bangumi and shares 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.

Experience

Publications & Projects

Dondon Douga TracingTool
Product development, Sep. 2025

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