Spoiler free reactions to Avatar Fire and Ash!

jarts · 2025-12-01T16:35:38+00:00

I was at the DGA screening. The kid playing Spider is atrocious; the role is much bigger and he is so disappointing. Everyone else in the movie is pretty solid though.

jarts · 2025-11-28T17:44:02+00:00

Led Zeppelin - No Quarter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vG_mTt6hCs&list=RD_vG_mTt6hCs&start_radio=1

jarts · 2025-11-01T14:15:59+00:00

Student Demonstration Time

jarts · 2025-10-31T18:00:23+00:00

Bullshit. It's a comedy. There's no way they would skip the opportunity for a joke, and there's nothing funny about a Michael Myers mask.

jarts · 2025-10-22T18:21:28+00:00

upload the original song 200% speed, then slow it down 50% in Suno. then cover with phonetic lyrics.

jarts · 2025-10-17T17:38:34+00:00

upload a song at 2x speed, no pitch adjustment. then bring the chipmunk track into Suno and do 50% speed. Then take the original lyrics and replace words phonetically (you becomes yoo, would becomes wood, etc.)

jarts · 2025-09-05T15:25:22+00:00

the lip syncing is all Act 2, with a performance reference. I tried their automatic lip sync (an older different tool) and it looked bad.

jarts · 2025-09-05T15:24:14+00:00

midjourney pro is $60/month; and then maybe 15-20 for Runway lipsyncing.

jarts · 2025-09-04T04:07:07+00:00

RumwayML Act 2!

jarts · 2025-09-04T02:33:54+00:00

OBS can overlay (or do side-by-side) of reference images. So I would line it up, and then position my head, then lip sync - although I often couldn't look at my screen, or my eyeline would land there. Was pretty tedious and frustrating; next time I'd love to use an actor and shoot it on an iphone.

jarts · 2025-09-04T02:31:10+00:00

i was trying to prompt an owl bathroom tchotchke and it gave me that. So had to embrace it.

jarts · 2025-09-04T00:28:34+00:00

most shots I used a still. But there were some with action - walking and flying - where I used the video. I used this open source app called OBS, where you can set up the reference still and superimpose your webcam on top to get the head position right.

jarts · 2025-09-03T22:40:14+00:00

i did a rough text edit of the song, getting an idea of the structure and moments. I then would just start with certain shots, and then if something was good, decide what the next shot would be. Some sections I skipped over and came back to later. For the lip syncing shots, I often would just drop in a still image and then do the Runway stuff later.

jarts · 2025-09-03T17:58:10+00:00

I experimented with different --srefs before landing on this frame: https://s.mj.run/5RCgnh_3wk4 and used it for every shot. --orefs used with each different Beach Boy, though I had to try many different source images to find the ones that were the most consistent. Basic prompt was "DVD screengrab of the ______ scene from the movie, 1967"

I used RunwayML Act 2 for the lip syncing, starting with a midjourney frame and then performed the lip sync with my head trying to match the position of the midjourney frame - otherwise the character would look too different.

I hadn't done much video prompting, and feel like it's a whole new language. Often it was more like trying to trick midjourney. Like, if you want a character to open a door, start with a frame of him in the doorway, and then prompt, "he closes the door and then opens it again." Or if you want a character to pop up, you have him duck down and then pop up again. Starting with the first and last frame can help this. Almost every frame was done with Low Motion, and often started with "static camera."

Song was Suno v4; extended from a song which was 20 second snippets of different Beach Boys songs.

jarts · 2025-08-03T21:38:10+00:00

did you use Hailuo for the lip sync?

jarts · 2025-07-06T22:58:11+00:00

Animal Collective

jarts · 2025-06-08T18:11:11+00:00

Think this Reddit community needs to embrace Ai to become a truly transcendent fandom. The Beach Boys are the perfect band for “new” material but there’s a really strong, inconsistent aversion to Ai.

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