This is a result from Krea AI image-to-video. It is implemented as web application where you can upload keyframes and prompts on a timeline. I used these two images as keyframes:
It's eye catching and very smooth (at least in the face), but it does not follow the original keyframes or style very strongly. I think this could be tweaked to get better results, but my "3 minutes" of free trial video generation got used up in 20 seconds, and that doesn't exactly encourage me to purchase more time.
Having a timeline with keyframes is a step in the right direction, but the hard push towards content control and monetization seems premature for something that's not really cut out for professional use.
Oooooo! I wonder how Alison got this small! Maybe mistress shrunk her to teach her a lesson? Maybe that's how she ended up in the Tinkerbell outfit after her "candy" clothes dissolved?
This is a result from RunwayML Gen2 AI image-to-video. It is implemented as a web service, so it costs money, it can be slow, there is content filtering, and you're at their mercy for data privacy and access.
It generally struggles to maintain a consistent form, with characters often melting into someone else if there is significant animation. It also can't replicate a style, which is why I used the stable diffusion edit of this character as the image prompt, since it is a more generic photorealistic style.
They have announced Gen3, but it is not available to the public yet. From the results they've shown, I'd say it has potential to replace stock video for corporate ads and video essay filler, but it's not quite there yet for animation production.
Pika Labs AI image-to-video does a pretty decent job at realistic smoke, water, rain, fire, that sort of thing. The intent seems to be to create cinemagraphs.
This AI image-to-video from Pika Labs. You provide a single image and a text prompt and roll the dice. It's implemented as an online service via a discord bot so you sometimes have to wait a long time and there is NSFW filtering.
This was one of the only results I managed to get with a coherent movement that didn't morph into something strange. Most of the time you get the windy hair/fabric effect applied to random parts of the image or no animation at all.
Maybe if it could run locally, you could run it hundreds of times and cherry pick good results, but as it is now, it doesn't seem to have any use at all.
I mean, yeah, I could talk about all the things that are weird about this, but... who the fuck cares? Good, ethical use of these programs could do a LOT for the animation industry without harming the jobs of animators. Stuff still needs to be drawn and adjusted. Perhaps just with less tedium.
I think it's a good thing you're experimenting with this. Though, since I'm not part of the art community, I mostly say that because it seems to be a thing you're passionate about. I hope you find ways to use these tools to make things more fun for you.
This is another result from ToonCrafter, an AI frame interpolator, this time fed with panels from the opening scene of Lighter Chains Volume 5. There's some weird bits of course, but there's a lot of potential here for automating the "boring" parts of an animation where you just need some blocking and idle animations.
As a storyboarding aid, this can also show what amount of limited animation you can get away with - some of the shots work surprisingly well.
I've had some interesting results upscaling the frames from this in stable diffusion, but I want to see if doing some quick fixes to the animations or training a lora on the source panels can help things.
Well prepare to sit wrong because I have tried several image-to-video AIs I'll be posting the results and my thoughts this week.
The goal isn't to make the best finished work right off the bat, but to test the technology and see what it can do - good and bad. Part of learning a new tool.
I think to plebs like us the face in these sketches probably causes too much of an uncanny valley reaction. I reckon that helps explain the vote count, along with jlv61560's excellent point about bias.
This may be a version of "confirmation bias" in that most people tend to like the first version of something they see, and see other versions as being "less good" since they are mentally acclimated to the first version. Really all three are pretty good, but like many, I voted for the first version I saw as being just that little bit "better."
Of the options given, I selected "given as ransom" as I thought that it was the most-humiliating of these indignities for our hapless protagonist to be forced to suffer. Close second plotline for me is the "estranged twin sister"
I have an option-7, however, where our protagonist turns out to be a bodyswapped peasant boy (late adolescent or early young adult) who works a very lowly laborer job, like: ditch-digger; chimneysweep; shoeshiner; maybe even a beggar. One day, he sees this princess carriage go by and catches a glimpse of her peering between the curtains in her window at the working class surroundings passing her by with a disgusted look on her face. Filled with bitter resentment, he mutters to himself, "Why can't I be royalty? They have such easy lives and get everything handed to them without having to work for it and every whim met at the snap of a finger.
Not long after this scene, this princess' carriage is overtaken by an angry mob of peasants and members of the working class who stage a revolt, taking her prisoner. Later that night, hours after hearing of this news, our protagonist goes to sleep with a s***-eating grin on his face, only to wake up the next morning as this captured princess
If my Engagement level membership status allows for it, I'd like to request a "deleted scene" from this S.M. issue wherein we see Torrin fucking an especially girly looking Alison doggie-style (like he is here), but he's got handfuls of her pigtailed hair clutched in his fists, which he yanks back on with every punishing thrust, causing her enormous tits to jiggle comically on her chest
Q&A @theAdmin:Is it lore-accurate to assume that this image of Alison is showing her swallowing cum for the first time and discovering that she loves the taste (a sensation reinforced by her collar's affect on her still-feminizing brain via psychic reprogramming)?
I'm currently writing a story about how someone from our plane of existence ends up in Mistress' plane of existence. He ends up in a similar situation to Allison
Some weird stuff going on with the fingers there, and, at the end of the day, I agree with Banner. Overall, I almost always prefer your art to the various AI renderings.
