On the technical side, this is images from the comic page cropped out and run through cog video, then upscaled and image-to-image filtered in stable diffusion using a LORA and hypernet that I trained on images of the morale officer. (The comic page itself also has backgrounds that are enhanced with stable diffusion - I sketched and shaded a rough background, then filtered them to add greeblies). I then ran it through RIFE to interpolate from 8fps to 16fps.
This took me a couple days of experimenting and messing around, with a large amount of compute time in between. It takes ~10 minutes to render a 6 second clip so it's a matter of figuring out a prompt and parameters, running a batch over night, then cherry picking the best results.
Hand animating this scene would take weeks, but the results and methods aren't really comparable. You're seeing this scene because it worked, where several other scenes did not. While I was generating clips, it was not clear that the walking shot was going to work at all as there were lots of derpy results, and even in the final clip I couldn't use the whole thing. But the final result is very realistic with shading and 3D camera motion that would be very hard to duplicate traditionally. The same with the shot of her walking down the stairs - it looks just like a handheld camera shot and I think you would need to have a motion capture source to duplicate that.
There are lots of things the model just can't do. Like having her walk into the hallway and turn down the stairs - not happening. It has to go forward from the image you provide, so it can't have a can't have a character walk into frame or hit a specific mark. If this model had the 2 keyframe targets that tooncrafter has it would be amazing, but I don't know if that's possible. Also just on some preliminary testing, I don't think it can make the princess from better this way jump up in surprise in the lightning scene.
It favors realistic shading - if you give it a flat shaded character you can get limited animation or lots of distortion. I've had mixed results on some of my characters but it seems to pick up well on this style of the morale officer. The output from cogvideo is very smooth, but it can do some weird things to faces and the overall shading style, thus I ran it through stable diffusion which has it's own problems and adds some flickering.
Re: Jiggle physics, I've gotten some ok results by feeding it photorealistic stable diffusion renders of girls in loose tshirts. Here's some misc results for science: https://satinminions.com/Cog-Misc-Results.html
The model seems to shine at realistic scenes with minimal movement. You get lots of subtle secondary motion and it holds the character's proportions well. I think there might be a hybrid use where you draw a character, generate an animation, then roto over it. Also for backgrounds and establishing shots, you can add rotation and animation to what would otherwise be an ordinary pan. Another case that seems to work with a little fiddling is techno babble displays, like the brain scan and graph stuff that appears on the morale officer's hud. So there are use cases but it's not the end times yet.
That actually was really good. I'm sure I could quibble a bit over the facial expressions and lack of motion both there and with her (ahem) upper body structure, but overall, I think that went really, really well. I could see the "lightning scene" from Better This Way being really well depicted in this version...
Well... Fuck. That is really impressive. I'm curious, how much effort and time did this take, disregarding software learning time, compared to drawing this with a more traditional frame rate?
I'm curious just how much labor effort and time this can save you.
Looks like you'll have to reconnect your patreon account from https://satinminions.com/myProfile I think this was caused by a patreon outage a few days ago. I'll go over the code and improve the error handling and logging of this.
This actually seems to work pretty well. Admittedly, there is some wonkiness with the hair and the background, but her body movements seem very consistent and we don't seem to be getting those weird body/facial transformations that often seem to crop up. Overall, I like this animation tool's results.
That went fairly well, though honestly, the animation girl isn't as pretty as your drawn girl is. Still, considering there wasn't much in the way of movement, it seemed to get the job done for what there was.
This actually seems to work pretty well. Admittedly, there is some wonkiness with the hair and the background, but her body movements seem very consistent and we don't seem to be getting those weird body/facial transformations that often seem to crop up. Overall, I like this animation tool's results.
...any chance that we might get another Entry Level issue?
Please say yes, as Matilda is my second favorite Satin Minions character after Alison (I think plenty of your other long-time fans would agree with me). I even have a plot idea if you don't have one at the moment but are receptive to outside suggestions if you haven't completely abandoned this character's story as just a one-off project
I keep coming back to this. Returning to Tiger_Driver91's statement, I love the quick, unexpected change into a woman with the clothes still hanging and then the domination. Reminds me of the "Alpha Club" stories by Trisha on fictionmania.
...any chance that we might get another Entry Level issue?
Please say yes, as Matilda is my second favorite Satin Minions character after Alison (I think plenty of your other long-time fans would agree with me). I even have a plot idea if you don't have one at the moment but are receptive to outside suggestions if you haven't completely abandoned this character's story as just a one-off project
There is no romance with mistress, not anything that isnt one sided. Mistress is training, but especially conditioning the new sex slave. Thats her job. Hence teaching her how to be with both sexes, but obviously the with a man part was going to take more work. Thats why mistress got her used to sex as a source of pleasure and comfort, then started acclimatizing her to penetration regularly before she started taking her around town to be around men, and you can bet that the area she took her was filed with the better crop of male specimens. You need to accompany mistress was a pretext to get the main character around flesh and blood men now that her defended had been completely obliterated.
That doesnt mean that the main character wont still have relations with Mistrsss, or other women, but Remember that this kind of role is what the OC always wanted deep down.
The face holds excellently -- as YQN said, a marked improvement over some of the others you've tried. The dress, on the other hand, must be infused with Demonic sex magic since it varies wildly from frame to frame!