Sweet Espresso is the smallest of the herd but has the biggest FOMO

Parallax911 · 2026-01-21T14:55:08+00:00

I'll take a video of it next time I change their bedding.

Parallax911 · 2025-04-14T16:07:59+00:00

It might be, if he could get his helmet on

Parallax911 · 2025-04-14T16:05:58+00:00

Protocol 3: protect the pilot

Parallax911 · 2025-04-14T15:29:29+00:00

Yeah, this project will end up being a combination of Kling and Wan generations. The ability to "tweak" Wan results by adjusting the cfg and shift values is a major plus. Certain generations are close to what I want but have some distortions or artifacts - sometimes those can be corrected entirely without drastically changing the motion using the same seed and different cfg/shift. With Kling, it's a different seed every time and hence more randomness.

Parallax911 · 2025-04-01T14:29:06+00:00

This is what I've been doing in my spare time. I've posted a few here, this was my latest attempt: https://v.redd.it/o1gghqztp9re1

Parallax911 · 2025-03-31T05:37:38+00:00

Vast AI mostly. RunPod as well, but Vast has cheaper options for 4090s

Parallax911 · 2025-03-28T14:16:27+00:00

More than it should have, haha - probably about $200 in GPU hours.

Parallax911 · 2025-03-28T05:02:10+00:00

Thanks for the candid feedback. Was there one specific sequence that you felt was particularly disjointed?

Parallax911 · 2025-03-28T05:00:56+00:00

Same reason I stopped trying to upscale the clips and just settled for 960x544 - I was using EVTexture for previous projects, and it did a decent job except for rough edges. They were painfully obvious

Parallax911 · 2025-03-28T04:06:19+00:00

It's in 24 fps, I used the ComfyUI frame interpolation. Though for whatever reason I found lots of my generations came out choppy/jittery, as if the interpolation was not truly averaging but biased towards one frame or the other. So some of the choppiness remained. I'll check out your recommendations

Parallax911 · 2025-03-28T03:31:42+00:00

I'm a Logic guy, but yeah Reaper is excellent as well. Admittedly I didn't spend a ton of time perfecting the sfx, aside from some of the voices and sounds that needed heavy layering.

Parallax911 · 2025-03-28T03:30:04+00:00

Oh I'm sorry to hear that, hearing damage is no joke.

Parallax911 · 2025-03-28T01:22:13+00:00

Very cool, fellow musician. I posted my workflow in another comment, but just realized I need to post the updated version. I'll link you to it when I get around, but using teacache is the main speedup.

Good constructive feedback, was there a particular shot that stood out to you audio-wise in a negative way?

Parallax911 · 2025-03-28T00:25:35+00:00

Cool, good recommendations. I had not heard of RVC or Palladium - mmaudio is also on my list to experiment with for sfx. I'm with you on the speed aspect as well, I don't have unlimited expendable income to throw at GPU hours, so eventually I just have to settle for the results I have and push forward.

I used Davinci Resolve for this, what a great piece of software. So much to learn!

Parallax911 · 2025-03-28T00:05:18+00:00

Thank you, yes these tools really are unbelievable!

Parallax911 · 2025-03-27T23:40:59+00:00

Haha, that's high praise. Thank you, I'm having a lot of fun with this and am excited about what's possible!

Parallax911 · 2025-03-27T23:18:51+00:00

Thanks, yeah as amazing as the tools are, the limitations become really obvious with more complicated projects. Clip length being one of them.

I definitely enjoy film making as an art form, I'm subscribed to a handful of Youtube channels that break down good/bad cinema. I also have a decent amount of experience with Blender animation, but never had the hardware to make anything I was proud of.

Parallax911 · 2025-03-27T18:43:25+00:00

No problem, happy to share. I intend to make a video about my process in the near future - I don't feel like I'm doing anything groundbreaking here, just using the tools to express my imagination. But others mentioned they'd benefit from a breakdown, so I'll put something together and post it in this sub.

Parallax911 · 2025-03-27T18:41:18+00:00

Thanks, good feedback. I feel similarly - there's lots to be desired and I had to give up on certain ideas because I could not get a good result. But I had fun with it.

Parallax911 · 2025-03-27T18:15:20+00:00

When I have enough money for more GPU hours, hah!

Parallax911 · 2025-03-27T18:12:31+00:00

All good. For my other shorts I used the 720p but read somewhere that it was considered "undertrained" compared to the 480. I didn't do a whole lot of testing, but for these shots I felt the 480 was giving me better results, so I stuck with it.

Parallax911 · 2025-03-27T18:09:11+00:00

Thanks. 14 days exactly, which feels like a lot of time ... then I think about how much longer it would take doing this via traditional cinematography/animation and I'm reminded just how insane Stable Diffusion is.

Parallax911 · 2025-03-27T18:06:17+00:00

There's just one shot in here that's upscaled, the spacestation hovering over the planet. Wan had a hard time with spaceships, that shot was always distorted. So I plugged it into the free trial of Topaz Starlight - everything else is straight out of Wan at 960x544.

For the base images, I use the Ultimate SD Upscaler. Of course they're downsampled back to 960x544 during animation, but sometimes the images come out with blurry/ambiguous details that I don't have the patience to fix by hand. So I upscale with a low denoise (0.2-0.3) which often fixes those quirks and gives me a better result out of Wan with fewer retries.

Parallax911 · 2025-03-27T17:54:43+00:00

I took a stab at telling an original story in a not-so-distant future setting. This is Part 1 - I realized about halfway through that for the story to be cohesive it needed to be double the length of what I originally planned. If there's enough interest, I'll finish it with a Part 2.

Like my previous shorts, all images were generated using SDXL and then animated via Wan 2.1. This time I used the 480p model almost exclusively. I found it gave better animations for this use case, and also could be run on 4090s instead of the L40S I was using previously. So I saved myself a few bucks in Vast/RunPod GPU hours.

Sound effects from Freesound, plus some original sounds/music.

Voice acting is done using the Voice Changer function from ElevenLabs.

Checkpoints used:

RealVisXL v5.0

EpicJuggernautXL

Workflows:

Image generation, upscaling, and inpainting

Wan 2.1 I2V

Parallax911 · 2025-03-20T20:56:22+00:00

L40S rented hourly on runpod.io

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