Haven't posted for a while, but I've been working in the background.
My LoRA is progressing nicely, and can now generate some fairly decent short-form videos which I'll post examples of at some point, Meanwhile the occasional RLHF prompts from ChatGPT have given me a few really nice bits of source material, when they briefly give me a test generation or two from what's obviously their WIP image model.
We're all aware of the limitaitons of current-gen video models when it comes to content length. I certainly wouldn't say I've got a solution yet, but I've been experimenting a bit with visual storytelling, trying to patch together something vaguely watchable.
Not sure this style will appeal to everyone, there are jump cuts, and obviously the occasional continuity issue, quality drops, static audience members ertc . I'm presenting it more as a progress update than any kind of fait acompli.
You'll need to click-through to view it. I set it to age restricted so as not to risk the ire of Youtube!
Love the stills, can't look at the video because Youtube requires me to give up my privacy to confirm my age (phone# required, disposable phone# won't work).
This is good progress and the subject matter appeals to me. Really like the look of the slime, and the character seems reasonably consistent between shots.
From my experience with YouTube, this wouldn't need to be age restricted if you removed the captions.
Clip length remains the biggest hurdle for this sort of content. There are some rapid and unmotivated edits which detract from it a little. I'm guessing this is because you wanted to maximise the running time from your clips - for me it would have been more enjoyable if it had fewer cuts and was a few seconds shorter.
Thanks for the feedback! Yes I agree the experiment with the camera switching was probably a bit overdone! Done plenty of the other sort, but until the stable window for open source generations gets up to the 20-30s range, have to keep experimenting. There are a lot of tricks for extending videos pretty much indefinitely currently, but as they rely on keyframes they don't work especially well for stuff that has a big arrow-of-time effect that obscures the face!
Mikee said: Love the stills, can't look at the video because Youtube requires me to give up my privacy to confirm my age (phone# required, disposable phone# won't work).
i'll have a go, but I seem to remember reading that requires id verification on the uploader's side. Did you try with a VPN set to another region if you're in the UK?
Love you, too
