Here's the full-res starting image I made with Flux some months back.
Thanks! I can already tell that we have a mutually compatible aesthetic.
Beautiful! This whole community is looking really nice.
The image generators seem to have a hard time with continuity when something passes in front, like her arm in front of the bikini straps.
This looks straight out of an 80s B-movie. I dig it.
Definitely. Full nudes are okay, but wacky outfits are fun to experiment with. I like the clear plastic infill panels on this one.
Thank you, I'm glad you like them.
Sometimes the AI just really wants to make nipples.
I agree about the color. I keep refining and iterating as I go, so the images towards the end of a series always seem to be better than the earlier ones.
I really appreciate you noticing. I spent a ton of time and lots of trial and error on fine tuning settings to get that volcano effect.
Yes, this is all local and self-hosted.
On the hardware front, I'm running an Intel 12900k, Nvidia 3090, 64GB ram. The workflow is all done with ComfyUI. Starting with a single image from the Flux 1 Dev model (text to image). Then passing that to a new video model called WAN 2.1 for the image-to-video.
The Flux image takes about 2 minutes to generate but I make them big, about 2.5 megapixels with an upscale/finetune pass. The video takes about 3-4 hours to output 10 seconds of 720p at 15fps. Any larger res or more frames and I get out of memory errors. After that, I run it through a script I wrote using a frame interpolator called RIFE to get it up to 30fps.
If you don't need NSFW and don't mind a Chinese company doing the video, I've gotten great image-to-video results from KlingAI in just a few minutes. The company behind Flux is also working on a local i2v model, and there's another new one called HunyuanVideo that just came out a few days ago but I haven't tried it.